Friday, January 30, 2015

When It All Became Real

This was the week that I would finally be front and center in the classroom teaching students. Starting out teaching the Case AFNR Introduction to Agricultural Science I was a nice transition to say. Even though it is a set curricuum does not mean you have to follow every little word or detail and that you cannot add your own ideas or activities.

To start the class off I did a bubble gum lab that made them come up with a hypothesis and procedure so each group was a little different. This lab took less time than expected but instead of having homework they were able to do it in class and get it done.

For the first week I have stayed for the most part with the lessons adding a little extension or activity change here and there. That was all true till Friday hit. I thought to myself why do these skimpy lessons on FFA if every student in here is a member. Being this class is a prerequisite for the other ag classes I felt they needed know more about the FFA than the lessons were calling for.

With that said I completely through out the first lesson and made up an FFA history lesson that includes a short video, research, timeline making, gallery walk, and a story along with a homework assignment. The only thing against me was time. Due to GrAde testing my block was switched with third and shortened to 58 minutes.

As for next week I will be finsihing up FFA, doing a CDE contest day, blood drive, and start talking about ag careers with the intro class. Tentatively if all works out I will be picking up the honors mechanics class as of Wednesday with SAE which will cover navigating AET and getting them all set up on their for their SAE project for the semester.


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