Well, our Compass Rose Lesson was awesome. I was so nervous to start teaching but I think it went really well. We taught a lesson every day this week in Social Studies. The students loves our rap about the Compass Rose and I think it will help them remember what it's all about. We also had each students color and make their own Compass Rose. The teacher had the handout and let us use it in our lesson plan. The students enjoyed making a Compass Rose to their individual liking and they were learning as they went along.
Throughout the week we taught them about latitude and longitude, map legends and symbols, and played a review game. Katie and I got to give the students a test based on what only we had taught them since we taught the whole unit. Each student also had to know each of the six surrounding states of Utah so I made up a rap to help them remember it. It goes:
There are six states all around
Some are up and some are down
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado too,
New Mexico and Arizona how about you?
Then there's Nevada, he is to the West.
And those are the six states for the test.
They really enjoyed the rap and rhyming has always been a great tool to help me remember important information so I wanted to see if it would help them. Most of the students remembered the six states or only missed one or two on the final test. I was so proud of them!
From this week's experience I've learned a lot. I want to be able to use the talents I have to help my students learn. Rhyming has come very easy to me and I love to write short songs or poems about people or topics. I want to incorporate and encourage that in my classroom. I also wanted to express how much I know art integration is very possible in core curriculum. It often doesn't take very much extra time to incorporate it and the students learn so much more becuase they are engaged and doing hands on activities.
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