March 25, 2008
Today I taught my science lesson to the whole kindergarten class! It followed Carly’s lesson on “what a plant needs.” My lesson was about how plants change as they grow. I feel like my lesson went pretty well, but it definitely could have been better as far as classroom management. This is probably one of my greatest weaknesses so far as a student teacher. Hopefully I will be able to improve on this next year when I have more control of the class on a regular basis, rather than one day per week. I modified my lesson a little bit after not being able to find the original book that I wanted to use for this lesson entitled The Big Seed. While looking for a different book to use, I thought back to my Science Talk and how some of my students held the misconception that if you give seeds apple juice, they will turn into apple trees. While at the public library, I found a book entitled How Do Apples Grow? By Betsey Maestro. I thought that this was a very appropriate book for my students and for my lesson, so I used this book instead. It went through the life cycle of an apple tree, while also talking about the different parts of the plant and what they do as the plant changes. At one point in the book, it shows us that if you cut the apple in half, you can see the seeds inside in the shape of a star. I paused at that page and brought out an apple I brought to show the students this is real-life. They were really interested in this as they passed the apple around. I think now their misconception is hopefully fixed!
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