Tuesday, March 18, 2008

This week I led my social studies lesson and the kids did projects for Easter and had their reading centered around St. Patrick's Day, so I didn't see much science in the classroom. However, on Monday the class finished up their Dinosaur lesson with putting the finishing touches on their dinosaur stories, so that bit relates to science to an extent. The kids loved their "dinosaur week" and had creative imaginations in creating their dinosaurs and dinosaur stories. I found this themed-week to be more centered on creativity than science. Science could have been better incorporated into some lessons this week by focusing a tad more on the history of actual dinosaurs rather than "cartoon stories" and creativity. Of course, these aspects are okay as well, but I felt that my CT should have also taught some factual information about dinosaurs. The kids would have loved this just as much as the non-fiction, they are fascinated by "real life" things that are unknown to them, and it would have been more meaningful and have taught the kids a lot more of science as well.

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