During the FL Schlagle Library observation, we went over the activities that we were going to teach the students. We had to practice the activities ourselves first, then wrote out a lesson plan. My activity was to teach the students about the water cycle. The activity was that each student would go to a station that represented some point in the water cycle (ocean, lake, glacier, etc.) and grab a bead and put it on their journey stick then roll a box which would tell them where to go next, and repeat the steps until they reached fifteen beads. Following the activity I planned to ask the students a few questions regarding what did they learn from the activity and if they knew what pollution was and if so how can we prevent pollution from getting into our water streams.
Lesson Planning was my least favorite part! I was thinking I can teach this activity without doing the lesson plan. I realized that it is important to lesson plan just so you as a teacher will plan out every detail of the lesson, also practice lessons before presenting it to the students. I also realized that before you present a lesson before the class, it is extremely important to do more research about the topic. For an example, I had learned about the water cycle back in elementary school but to refresh my memory I researched more about it and also ways I could break it down in terms that six, seven and eight year olds would be able to understand. The lesson planning was not really as horrible as I thought it would be but I had to realize that it will pay off and also benefit the students.
In conclusion, being a teacher takes a lot of work and patience but in the end all the lesson planning pays off when you see that you taught a student something. This observation made me realize that teachers do sacrifice a lot of their time so they can thoroughly plan out the lessons.
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