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I am currently in the fourth year of my studies as an education major. I found this source to be helpful with my planning of my first unit on hurricanes. I am teaching my unit in a 6th gra... See More

I am currently in the fourth year of my studies as an education major. I found this source to be helpful with my planning of my first unit on hurricanes. I am teaching my unit in a 6th grade classroom. My unit will begin with a focus on how animals are affected by hurricanes and what humans can do to help them and prevent them from dying. While a large part of this article focuses on ocean life and coral reefs, I still found it helpful how Marti Welch wrote about how we can open up students curiosity by beginning science units by talking about animals. He writes about how important it is to get students passionate about a subject before you try to have them do work and learn about it. This I agree with, the students in my classroom are ten times more productive when they are engaged and excited about a topic. While I did enjoy Mr. Welch’s connection of animals to engaging students, I found this article to be a little technical toward the middle, and a little hard to incorporate many of the facts into teaching. This article to me seems like it would be more helpful in teaching a larger unit about all animals and organisms that are affected by hurricanes and general bad weather across the earth. Still I did appreciate Mr. Welch’s ideas that he generated for this article on how to connect this learning to outside of the classroom. He mentions toward the end that an extension can be having students clean up their local parks which is a very important real world connection in my opinion.

Article Review

I am currently in the fourth year of my studies as an education major. I found this source to be helpful with my planning of my first unit on hurricanes. I am teaching my unit in a 6th gra... See More

I am currently in the fourth year of my studies as an education major. I found this source to be helpful with my planning of my first unit on hurricanes. I am teaching my unit in a 6th grade classroom. My unit will begin with a focus on how animals are affected by hurricanes and what humans can do to help them and prevent them from dying. While a large part of this article focuses on ocean life and coral reefs, I still found it helpful how Marti Welch wrote about how we can open up students curiosity by beginning science units by talking about animals. He writes about how important it is to get students passionate about a subject before you try to have them do work and learn about it. This I agree with, the students in my classroom are ten times more productive when they are engaged and excited about a topic. While I did enjoy Mr. Welch’s connection of animals to engaging students, I found this article to be a little technical toward the middle, and a little hard to incorporate many of the facts into teaching. This article to me seems like it would be more helpful in teaching a larger unit about all animals and organisms that are affected by hurricanes and general bad weather across the earth. Still I did appreciate Mr. Welch’s ideas that he generated for this article on how to connect this learning to outside of the classroom. He mentions toward the end that an extension can be having students clean up their local parks which is a very important real world connection in my opinion.