It has been a pretty interesting week this week. From fish in a school van, to loose cockroaches in the classroom, to running on the practices fields, it's been an exciting week!
Road Trip!
We loaded up a school van with barrels and 5 students and off went went to a huge aquaculture farm to pick up our fish for our hydroponics system. The owners were great and the students had an absolute blast seeing the facility and picking out their fish! Two students are using the system for their SAE projects, so they were especially excited. Despite the long car ride home and too small of buckets, 30 of the 35 half pound tilapia made it home, fairly good numbers. Throughout the rest of the week, we took almost every class out there to see the fish (hot topic in the ag room), and we are planning to incorporate it into every curriculum in various ways...exciting!
Cringing Faces of Male Animal Reproduction
Out and About on the Practices Fields
From soil samples to a variation of "freeze tag" for our adaptations activity, we were really able to enjoy the bright skys this week! Plus, I had no 'classroom' management issues outside, which meant my standards and warnings were effective.
With just two more weeks of this student teaching experience left, the time is really winding down!
Emily, Focus on maximizing the learning FOR YOU each day you have remaining in your internship!
ReplyDeleteInteresting blog, but I would have liked more details about these activities and about other exciting things at Oley. I will need to stop and see the fish.
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