School Placement: Carlisle School
Cooperating Teacher: Mancino Craighead
Grade(s)/Subject(s) of Placement: 6-12 (Sports Medicine, AP Statistics, PE (6-12))
Date: 10/29/14
Summary of Today’s Activities:
Sports Medicine (2nd & 4th, long) - I got brave and wanted to incorporate more technology into my class today! I started the class with a warm-up/formative assessment activity that I designed on polleverywhere.com and the students were allowed to use their cell phones to respond. I asked a series of 10 questions just to see where the class stood with the material from Ch. 6 (Sports Physicals). It was a pleasant surprise, that about 90% of my students understood and ready for the summative assesment! Once all of that fun was over, I started with a new chapter (Prehabilitation and Preseason Conditioning). The students took a few slides of notes from a prepared PowerPoint and were given an assignment that they could start in class and finish before next class. They were asked to interview 3 different people that play different sports on their preseasons and how each sport differs in the way they prepare their athletes.
AP Statistics (6th, long) - We began class by going over the FRAPPY (Free Response) question I assigned last class period; I gave them scoring guidelines and components to how it would be scored. After answering questions in regards to the AP exam we started a new chapter - Examining Relationships, concentration on Scatterplots and Correlation today. I introduced the chapter with an activity; the students split up into groups of 4 and were each given a ruler. The activity was called "The case of the missing M&M's" and the students were investigating a case where they were looking at a possible relationship between Height and Hand Span. The activity was a complete success and the students were accurate in their calculations and assumptions. Before the end of class, I assigned 2 book problems and a reading guide section.
Middle PE (7th) - There was a Blood Drive in the gym today - so once again we were kicked out! Luckily, the weather played to our advantage and we took the kids outside again! We continued working on football, explaining more positions and their duties. We let them play a few downs before it was time to go.
AP Statistics (6th, long) - We began class by going over the FRAPPY (Free Response) question I assigned last class period; I gave them scoring guidelines and components to how it would be scored. After answering questions in regards to the AP exam we started a new chapter - Examining Relationships, concentration on Scatterplots and Correlation today. I introduced the chapter with an activity; the students split up into groups of 4 and were each given a ruler. The activity was called "The case of the missing M&M's" and the students were investigating a case where they were looking at a possible relationship between Height and Hand Span. The activity was a complete success and the students were accurate in their calculations and assumptions. Before the end of class, I assigned 2 book problems and a reading guide section.
Middle PE (7th) - There was a Blood Drive in the gym today - so once again we were kicked out! Luckily, the weather played to our advantage and we took the kids outside again! We continued working on football, explaining more positions and their duties. We let them play a few downs before it was time to go.
Reflections of Today's Activities:
All of my lessons went so smooth today - it almost makes me forget how horrible I felt on Monday! The kids LOVED the assignment of getting to use their cell phones (which I hope was all class-related usage)! The success of today's lesson has motivated me to explore technology based lesson plans. Stay tuned...... :)
Is the polling app hard to set-up? I've seen that app and always wondered if it could be used in a high school setting.
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