Today, I felt like a teacher. I taught my first lesson. I began my unit on American Symbols and for my first lesson we explored the American Flag. Overall, I was very happy with how smoothly the lesson went. I began by questioning my students on what symbols are, and I had them look around the room to see if they could find any American symbols. Many of them spotted the American Flag hanging in the corner. We talked about why there are 13 stripes and 50 stars. I created an interactive PowerPoint activity that displayed how the stars on the flag equal the number of states in our country. In this activity students got to see how many different times our flag has changed over time. To conclude the lesson students constructed their own American Flag. They were provided with construction paper, a blue rectangle, red and white stripes and white star stickers (I prepared everything and cut everything out in advance). Students got to chose whether they wanted to make the first United States flag with 13 stars or today's flag with 50 stars. After they constructed their flag they wrote 2 facts about the flag.
One positive of my lesson was that I managed my time very well and that all of the students finished right before it was time for their Health teacher to take them to their special.
One thing I was unhappy with was that my SmartBoard PowerPoint activity was having some technical difficulties. I think next time I create something I will try to use the computer program designed for SmartBoard rather than using Powerpoint.
Next week I will be continuing my unit by teaching a lesson on the White House.
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