Tracy's Teaching Demo

I really enjoyed Tracy's teaching demo today. I was one of those students who was, and still is, fascinated by what is in the universe. I think one of the best parts of the lesson is the integration of technology. I know that my own students get excited when I tell them that we are going to the computer lab or that they get to come up to the Smart Board for a particular assignment. In this lesson, students get to explore and learn on their own while all still meeting a common goal. Science was the main focus, but she also combined writing and mythology into it without making it feel threatening. It's also a way that earlier cultures and civilizations told stories and tried to explain the world around them.

I will admit that at first I struggled with this lesson in the terms of making up our own constellation, because even though I like space and science, I have a hard time "seeing" the constellations. It's just the way my brain works! When it came to writing my own myth, I got a very slow start but once I heard Tracy telling someone else that she had a student make a basketball constellation, I got the idea of what we should be doing.