Day Two : Inquiry Lesson

                 The second day was definitely the hardest day so far of teaching. This was the first time I have ever taught an inquiry lesson. My group really struggled making this lesson and we struggled to teach it as well. During our lesson today we had a Voki all ready to show the class and we forgot about it! We thought we were running out of time so we rushed through our lesson so the students could get to work on the assignment. there was six slides that we did not show to the class. A lot of our corrections that we got after class, we would not have gotten if we showed those slides.  Since the class did not get to see the Voki, feel free to take a look at it.

We also did a review with the students from the last lesson. We used an online sort. The students had to sort whether something was a good or a service. I think the students did enjoy this but it was too long for them.

The activity went into all four of the seasons. A way we could have made this shorter would have been to have the students pick two seasons instead of doing all four of them. By the third season the students were not interested in the activity anymore. We also should have checked to see if it was compatible with the SMART board. We thought we would have been able to just drag the item into the correct box but we were not able to. One of the teachers had to sit at the computer and do it.


The project we had the students do was a little easy for them or least for the group I was working with. The students understood the concepts but they all wanted to do every job. It would have been easier to assign the jobs in the groups and make sure we had enough jobs for everyone. For example, the group I worked with had seven students working in it and there was not enough jobs for all of the students. The students were arguing about who was going to be what job. One thing that I found positive was that if the students were arguing about the jobs, they must have been interested in our lesson!
              At the end of the project the students were supposed to come up and explain to the class something they found. The students were joking around and not really paying attention to what they were supposed to be doing in front of the classroom. A way I would have done this was to have one student stand up at his or her seat and present to the class. When the students got in front of the room, that is when they started to joke around.

     There are definitely  many things we can improve on but this is a learning experience for us. It was different than any other lessons I have taught.