week 12

Active learning is something I have been striving to incorporate into my lessons this year.  We have discussed this aspect of teaching in other classes and I felt it was important to create lessons that students were interested and excited about.  When I taught a weather and climate unit I had students create their own weather forecast just as they see on the Weather Channel.  This was something that they could connect to the real world.  After reading the text I can see many possibilities for creating and planning active instruction in my social studies class. I hope this summer to have more time to plan active learning into that part of my curriculum.