Sunday, October 3, 2010

That has a name?!?

I teach both upper and lower classmen in my high school (upper in my oceanography class and mostly lower in my Earth Science class). I used a vocab matching activity with my freshmen and turned it into a competition (1st group to correctly match the words to the definitions win a prize (mini snickers bars)) and they just loved it. With my oceanography class we were beginning the chapter on chemistry and I decided to have them practice marginalia with a passage I had about the origins of seawater chemistry. As we were going through the passage I had to stifle a laugh as one of my students shouts from the back of the class, "this as a name?!?! I've been doing this for years and you mean to tell me it actually as a name other then taking notes???"(add a lot of attitude and body gesturing when you read that comment). It's days like this that remind me why I love teaching- the kids have a great way of making you laugh in new ways.

2 comments:

  1. How's it going lately? We could use another person's perspective since the two of us at KFHS have similar lesson plans... any new ideas?

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  2. Yeah, we common plan but if you have any cool lessons you should post them!

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