Brent

Learning about Cell Organization and Light Reactions!

    Hey everyone! How is it going? Well it is going great here. Well as for today I had an awesome lesson. Today I taught about how cell make up tissues and tissues make up organs, and organs make up organ-systems. It was a really great lesson and I think the students enjoyed it as well. What I did was I took the human body, and I broke it down into an organ system. Then I looked at the digestive system and told the kids about that. They found it really interesting. Then I took and organ, the stomach and I looked at that. We saw that the stomach was composed of different tissues, which was need to look at. Then we looked at tissues and then finally cells. It was a really good lesson, and the teacher that was observing me also said that it was a great lesson. She then gave me a review on my lesson, since it was such a great lesson.

    As for the high school, I also had another great lesson. I first had the students take a quiz so that I could see what they learned from the other day. Then I had the students look at the chloroplast of a elodea plant. So I gave them about 15 minutes to do that. Then after that I taught them about a light reaction, which was rather complicated for them, but it is something that we will work on, in the next couple of weeks. Anyways today was a great day. Now I am going to go get some subway, and then go back home and watch The Office, and then call it a night.

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Difficlut day Teaching

    Today I woke up thinking nothing could go wrong, but today was a day like non other. Today I started off my day as usual I woke up at 5:30, jumped in the shower, and got dressed. I then headed towards Proctor high school. Everything up until this point was going great. I taught my first hour life science class and it was a really great lesson. We talked about what it means to be alive and what makes a living thing living. However it was after this class that my world was shaken up. It was after this class that I found that my grandpa had went to the hospital and was not doing very well. I got a little choked up, but I still had a job to do, so I pressed on and taught again for my third hour life science class. I was rather difficult to teach having my grandpa on my mind, but I managed to press thought it.

    For the second half of the day I was in the high school and I taught a lesson on photosynthesis, which went pretty well considering the situation I was in. Then it was after my last hour of the day that I found out that my grandpa had passed away, which was really hard for me. Well anyways I though I would share why I wasn't at school.

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Good Lesson Today!

    Hey everyone! How is it going? Well sorry it has been such a long time since I last blogged, I have been very busy, also my grandpa passed way last Friday so I went back home for the wake and funeral. Last night I just got back to town and frantically put together my lessons for Monday. I ended up going to bed last night at 10:30 which was really nice, because I was supper tired.

    Well as for today I taught a lesson in the middle school about prokaryotes and eurakaryotes and the lesson went pretty well considering I was not planing on teaching today, because my teacher said she had it all taken care of, but obviously she didn't. Then as for the high school I was really nervous, because I had to teach a lesson on photosynthesis and my adviser was present watching me teach. She had to evaluate me and I really wanted to do a good job for her. After giving my lesson, which I though was rather dull, I was surprise to hear from my adviser that it was a great lesson. So that news made me really happy and I was really glad that I did so well on it. Well as for tonight I am going to try and relax and watch my TV shows, then I will plan my lesson, and go to bed a hopefully 10:00. I know what an exciting life.

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Hunting Weekend Coming up!

    Hey everyone! How is it going? Well it is going great here. Today was just a great day! I had a great day at school and I think it all started out this morning when I went to school at 7:00 and some of the teachers told me how great of a job I was doing. Just from hearing that I had a great day, I taught great lessons in all of my classes and got all caught up with homework. Well as for tonight I am just going to relax and watch some TV. Also Paul and I are going to go to Wal-Mart to get our hunting License, because we will be going home this weekend to hunt. Well I need to get going and grade some papers.

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Short Week!

    Hey everyone! How is it going? Well it is going great here. Well as for the week, it is going to be a short week because I have a National Science Teacher Conference to go to down in the cities on Thursday and Friday, so I will head back home on Wednesday. This week should go by really fast, which is a good thing because I really need a break.    
    As for today in the middle school I will be teaching the students about what they found at their stream site. I will be presenting notes to them and they will have to copy down what I write. For many of them it will be their first time writing down notes in class, and will be a good way to get them to transition into the middle school and what is to be expected of them when they get older. After giving notes to my first two classes I was really impressed with how well the students behaved while taking notes. They were quiet, didn't complain, and asked questions while I was presenting the notes.  In the high school today I reviewed the organelles of the cell and focused more on the membrane. Then after that I had the students work on a animal cell lab, where they had to look at their cheek cells under a microscope. Many of the student's really enjoyed the lab and really got into it, which was really nice to see.
    As for tonight, I am going to watch the Monday night football game. Also Jessica and I will be making cookies because on Wednesday I will be having the students work on making edible cells, which they will make and then eat. Well anyways I better get going.

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