Severe Storms

Hurricanes, Floods, Blizzards, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms

This week we created mini lesson plans in groups on topics related to earth science.  My group decided that we knew the least about weather, so we chose the topic of severe storms.  We used glogster to create a virtual poster board.  This was my first time using glogster and I had a great time creating this poster to share with the class. I think this is a great tool to use in the classroom because students can collaborate and communicate with their peers to create a virtual poster board to share with the class. 

We put a picture of each weather disaster that we taught about on the poster as well as a fact about that storm. Then each member of our group chose a topic to explain to the class. To pre-assess our students knowledge we asked questions verbally before we started to see what our students knew about severe storms. Throughout the lesson we stopped to check for understanding to make sure that the class was understanding the material.  At the end of our lesson we used a kahoot quiz to close our lesson and to see what our students learned and what they still needed to work on understanding.  Kahoot is a great tool to use in the classroom because it is extremely engaging for the students. Every student gets to participate individually. Although it is a quiz, to students it seems like a game because you are using technology.  I had a good experience creating this mini lesson plan.  I did think it was a little challenging because instead of planning a lesson that takes up 50 minutes we had to create a lesson that would fit into 10 minutes.  This was hard because you have to choose the most important material to share with the class during this time. Overall, we covered each topic with the most important material and used different types of technology to engage the class. I had fun working with my group members and I am looking forward to creating more mini lesson plans.