Today my partner Jessica and I presented our Mini Lesson using the Smartboard to carry out a Grade 1 Science lesson on the 5 senses. The whole process of having one student come to the board at a time seems a bit tedious and boring for the rest of the students sitting with nothing to do but other than that I think it went pretty well. We focused on sight and had a slow reveal of a picture while everyone guessed what it was, and then proceeded with a listening activity. There were only minor complications with our “erase to reveal” activity, but we sorted it out on the spot. The Smartboard was kind of neat to have for the sound portion, but other than that I really don’t think it provided much of an advantage for this particular lesson. It was fun to explore and see how the whole program works and I’m definitely excited to play around with it some more in my practicum and try it out in an actual elementary classroom. Right now it just seems sort of complicated and not worth the effort for the lesson, but I’m certain once I’ve seen it used in a class and practice with it more it will become a very useful tool!
I’ll have to remember how small the print comes out when I create a chart with words to categorize, I didn’t realize how unreadable they were if not sitting fairly close. I think pictures would be much more effective anyways, especially for the younger aged children. Also, in doing this presentation I came to realize (even more so) the importance of trying out the presentation before the actual class. When we did a dry run on another Smartboard one slide wasn’t showing any pictures that were meant to be there, and another was showing pictures which were supposed to be hidden. We also had to ensure that the sound component was on and loud enough. Overall I felt that we were really prepared for the lesson and it went smoothly!
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