Roaring with Ms. Rohrbach

On Friday February 16th, I got the Opportunity to travel to Big Spring Middle School, to observe Ms. Emily Jay! It was a great day, and a change of pace as 6-8 graders have a lot more energy than 9-12 graders.  I arrived around 8am, and got there during their first period planning time. I got to observe Emily getting ready for her back to back classes of 7th and 8th graders in wood shop! I loved Emily's first activity of hide and seek with tree ID cards. On their virtual day students got the chance to learn about different trees and how to identify them. Emily reviewed this, by hiding 6 index cards around the room with 6 different facts about an Ash tree. Students had fun doing a scavenger hunt to find these cards and then read them to the class. They were able to use critical thinking skills to determine that the tree they were describing was an ash tree. After they figured out the tree, they were able to re-hide the cards for the next class, which they loved. I realized that with...

For my Science Classroom Visit, I got to observe Mrs. Erin Rhoades, a biology teacher here at Cedar Crest. On January 23rd, I got to observe her Biology CP course, where she was teaching a lesson on Di-hybrid Punnet Squares. On January 24th, I got to observe her Biology 2 course and she was having a cow eye dissection day.  Biology CP- Di-hybrid Punnett Squares She did not have the objectives listed for her lesson, but she started the class by stating that they were going to be learning about how to complete a di-hybrid cross in a Punnet Square. She started the lesson by completing a class example of how to complete a cross, by walking the through each of the steps and asking for student volunteers to answer the questions. Then she allowed the students to work through an example in their packets. She walked around and answered any questions that students had. At the end of class, she put the answer on the board for the punnet square, but then she asked students to complete the phen...