Alyssa Baum
Wright State University

Assessing the Unseen

Fri, Sep 30, 2016 12:50 PM
Love verbal assessments!

The journal article brought up the important idea that assessing all children the same way does not always accurately describe their knowledge. The article was on a 6 day lesson on sound waves and it is one that seems very realistic for the classroom. It gave students the opportunity to create, draw, and verbally explain concepts, which is a wonderful way to go about assessment - especially for ELLs. I enjoyed how the lessons incorporated music and literature. Cross curriculum lessons are extremely valuable. I plan on using this type of lesson in my future classroom!

Luminous Lighting

Fri, Sep 30, 2016 12:01 PM
Art & Science Combined!

I really enjoyed reading this journal because it addressed the need to incorporate art in other school subjects. The project on circuits in this article allowed the students to not only learn about the scientific principle, it also allowed them to express themselves as people. I enjoyed learning about STEAM and hope to see more about schools that incorporate more cross-curriculum material with the arts. The idea of having a local artist come in to talk about these concepts was a really nice aspect of this lesson, as well!

Digging Into Rocks With Young Children

Fri, Sep 30, 2016 11:56 AM
Extremely Helpful

I found this article to be very helpful in the planning of a lesson on rock properties for third graders. It really gave some great ideas for introducing rocks into the classroom, as well as what properties apply to rocks and which are not as helpful for classification. This journal is definitely an informative read if you are looking into teaching about rock properties!