Patty Anderson's
Assignments:
Paper for Educators
Students working on teacher credentials:
Find 3 lesson plans, that interest you, covering 3 different concepts in the field of Earth Science (peer reviewed). Write a 2 to 3 page reflection paper reviewing these lesson plans, state how you would modify them to suit your teaching style, grade level, and how you would make them into inquiry based activities. Explain what you did and did not like, what you would change, and why you chose these lesson plans. List both CA standards and National standards for the grade levels you plan on teaching, by number/letter only (do not write the whole standard). Remember to do your best, as this is the project that you will most likely use in your profession. Include the original lesson plans.
You will also need a section covering each of the following:
- How would you accommodate students with Learning disabilities?
- How would you accommodate students with physical disabilities?
- How does your lesson plan pertain to every day life?
You will find it much easier to teach a concept to your students if you can relate the concept to something in their everyday life: such as evaporation and condensation of water (steam, clouds, and rain), or water spiraling as it goes down a drain (coriolis force).
Please try to cover at least 3 of the concepts we have learned in class, and include references, and a cover page.
Each modified lesson plan or lesson plan review should be about
1 to
2 pages for a total of approximately 4 to 5 pages (Cover page, Table of
Contents, and references, DO NOT count toward page
total).
Check list for reflection paper
P Cover page
P Table of Contents
P Your reflections described above
P SDAIE accommodations for disabilities (note one exception California is leaning toward English Emersion, so non-English learners may have up to 30% of the content in their native language, not their whole education).
P 3 Original Lesson plans attached along with reference pages
