Teaching Inquiry Lesson: climate change crime scene

 Inquiry Climate Change Lesson 11/3/20

    On November 3rd my co-teacher partners and I taught the final part of our climate change lesson. This lesson was a continuation of the previous lesson taught on the elements of climate change: Flooding, Forest Fires, Water supply loss, and rising sea level. In this lesson students complete a crime scene activity to show their knowledge of each element. 

    The lesson did not go as expected but that's to be expected when your teaching a lesson virtually on Google Meets instead of in a classroom. For this session, we had the same student from the first lessons and a new student. Our main issue throughout the lesson was that the new student struggled to complete the assignment because they did not attend the first lesson, however, the first student struggled to remember information too. My co-teachers and I had to help guide the students through each crime scene to determine the element that caused the crime. Because we had to unexpectedly help the students complete the activity we struggled to complete the lesson in time and had to cut a part of the lesson.

    Although we had some issues with the lesson it was still an effective lesson that the students enjoyed. it was a great learning experience getting to create the lesson and teach it. I think the lesson would have been better taught in a classroom with more than two students but we did well teaching it virtually. Overall, I enjoyed teaching our last lesson and hope the young scientist an enjoyable learning experience!