Reflection for Lesson 3

1. Instructional Decisions/Teaching (InTask Standard # 9): Discuss the implementation process and describe
• What went well and what didn't go well during the implementation of your lesson?

I think that this lesson was the best lesson I did out of the three.  I felt more comfortable teaching the lessons and creating different types of projects for the students to do.  I liked using a web quest because it gave me a good outline of where to begin my lesson.  I choose to modify my lesson slightly to include more hands-on learning for the students.  If I did this lesson again, I would modify it to focus on one specific type of shark instead of a broad overview of the different types.

• How well was the alignment to objectives and standards maintained?

 The Objective: Students will create a poster containing 5 facts on sharking after completing 3 tasks on a web quest on sharks.  Students were able to accomplish the objective of this task well.  They used online resources and information learned from the different websites to be able to complete their poster about a shark of their choosing and transferred the information learned well.  This also matched the standards that were given in this lesson because through the web quest the students learned about an animal and it's different functions.  Also, when creating the shark poster, the students were able to write an explanatory piece containing many facts and a definition of a shark.

• Describe any modifications made during the implementation of the lesson

During this lesson, I realized that I did not have enough time to complete one of the web quest tasks.  I modified the lesson by doing the poster before having the students do the shark anatomy drawing.  By doing this, I was able to make sure that there was enough to complete the entire poster and then the students could explore the other web quest task if they had time.

1. Mechanics:
   • What technologies did I use (for the teacher and the learner)?  How were the technologies used (by whom and in what manner)?
   For this lesson, I used a You-Tube video on sharks, created a shark poster on Microsoft Word as an example and used the computer to show students how to navigate through the web quest.  The students used their computer in several different ways including navigating the internet, using Microsoft Word to create their poster and Pixie to draw a shark picture that included describing it's anatomy.
   
   • My lesson was within the correct time frame
     • My lesson was too long because I ran out of time to complete all the tasks on the web quest that I had assigned.  If I did this assignment again, I would do it in several different parts over a two day period so students could spend more time exploring and completing each task.
2. Assessment of Learning (InTask Standard # 6): Refer to Assessing Student Learning
• Include at least 2 digital artifacts that demonstrate what you or your students (peers) have created as a result of your lesson
• https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/discussionboard/do/message?action=list_messages&forum_id=_326792_1&nav=discussion_board_entry&conf_id=_132876_1&course_id=_70053_1&message_id=_4581508_1#msg__4581508_1Id
• https://bblearn.nau.edu/webapps/discussionboard/do/message?action=list_messages&forum_id=_326792_1&nav=discussion_board_entry&conf_id=_132876_1&course_id=_70053_1&message_id=_4581491_1#msg__4581491_1Id
• Describe your students' level of success in achieving the standards and objectives for your lesson based on your assessment

Based on my assessment method, the students that participated in this lesson were successful in achieving the standards and objectives for my lesson.  The students were successful in completing each task that was given in the web quest and they were able to transfer the information that they learned into a poster for a final assessment.  The students incorporated appropriate definitions of sharks, described their shark and gave factual information about the sharks they learned about.

• Describe the level of success you had in teaching the lesson
  • How do your individual reflections support this?
  • My reflections reflect that I was successful in teaching this lesson.  I incorporated several different components to this lesson to offer students different ways of learning content.  By doing this, I was able to ensure that all students were able to learn the content.
  • How do the comments from your classmates support this?  
  My classmates made some suggestions that I could improve on.  One suggestion was to write down the web address we were going to so the students could see the web address better.  Another suggestion was to spend more time discussing vocabulary terms.  I liked this idea.