First lesson

Well this Friday I did my first lesson of Unit 3. What I thought about was why long-term research is done and why it is so important as well as talked about how the protocol for looking at mole/sand crabs will be going. It went very well. The second class went better than the first because one I had what I was going to say in my mind and I had about 15 more minutes than the first. Both lesson still went very well, I got all of the important points across so that was good. Before I taught my lessons I gave out a survey for the students to complete that asked them about how they felt about the environment, then the back side of the survey asked them a few questions about protocol and how they felt about the field trip to Carpinteria State Beach.

Then for my lecture I handed out another worksheet for the students to fill out during it. It was about the protocol for sand beach and questions about mole/sand crabs. I feel like the students really liked learning about the mole crabs. They had a couple of good questions about it. Like “How do we sex these animals?” “How do they eat detritus and filter feed?” I had a lot of fun do this and I can’t wait to continue going to the school and talking with them about something that I enjoy doing.

 

See you all next week for my next post.