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For our week two outside lesson plan, we decided to play a more challenging
game called Ships and Sailors. This game requires students to recall
commands that we teach them before the game starts. If the student does
not act quickly when a command is called, they are eliminated from the
game. That day, we had students ranging from kindergarten to third grade.
To differentiate the lesson, we came up with several ways for each grade
level to succeed. The first way being giving the younger grades less
commands to remember. There are fourteen commands in total, we gave
kindergarten eight commands to remember. Also, after each round, we
taught them a new command. Kindergarten started with five commands to
remember. This technique allowed the students to get used to the
commands, and the game. Once I thought the students were responding to
the game well, by remembering the commands, we challenged them with
new commands, and faster games. The oldest grade, third, was
differentiated by allowing them to become the caller and by allowing them to
work together as a group to create new commands. They really loved the
idea of having the power. This differentiation also motivated them to
participate and win the games because the winner became the caller. Paul
Gorski wrote the article, Building a pedagogy of engagement for students in
poverty, that connects to this outside lesson plan (2013). One of the
headings for this article is titled, incorporate movement into instruction
(Gorski, 2013). When planning this lesson, movement was my focus. I
believe PE teachers, and us interns who plan outside time, have pressure on
us because that is the only time students get to run around. It is important
that students get to move around. Students who are physically fit fare
better in school.
This curriculum lesson plan was used as a way to learn about our students.
The activity is called All About Me! Students have to come up with math
equations that relate to certain facts about them. We planned for
differentiation by using different math (addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division), and by giving kindergarten five categories instead of eight.
Kindergarten did addition only, second grade did addition and subtraction,
third and fourth did multiplication, and fifth had to do multiplication and
division. Gorski and Swalwell wrote a section in the article Equity Literacy
for All that talked about the importance of embracing equity literacy (Gorski
& Swalwell, 2015). The bullet point in this section that stood out to me was,
cultivate and sustain bias-free and discrimination-free communities (Gorski
& Swalwell, 2015). Creating that type of environment is essential for
students to feel comfortable. I believe we did that during this lesson because
while students were creating their posters, they were free to talk about their
lives, and many disclosed a lot of information. Not one student was judged
by us, or by the other students.
Model poster:
Learning Environment:
Reference:
Gorski, Paul, and Katy Swalwell. "Equity Literacy for All." (2015): 34-40. Print.