Elijah Pittler

Today I will teach about paper airplanes and how different folds can affect how the plane flies.

Prep:

1.) Bring sheets of paper for students

2.) Tape a line on the ground

3.) Bring tape measure

4.) Fold three different example planes (One with bent wings, one with one bent wing, one with heavy nose)

Activity:

1.) Pass out a sheet of paper to each student

2.) Demonstrate the basic paper airplane fold (ex. fold corners in, fold in half, fold "wings" down)

3.) Have each student line up on the line and toss paper airplane (give short demo.)

4.) Go back to seats and review how their airplane flew

5.) Ask how the students could make the airplane do stunts

6.) Have students make a new paper airplane with new modifications on their own (after demonstrating the three example planes)

7.) Have each student line up on the line and toss paper airplane

8.) Go back to seats and review how their airplane flew and investigate why the plane flew that way.

I chose to look at Payton's lesson for my feedback. I enjoyed this lesson a lot because the goals were clearly defined in the very beginning.  I also like how the steps were on separate slide with only one or two steps per slide. This helped me follow along with the steps and it made me feel accomplished once I finished each step.  I especially liked the images because they helped me know if I had made the correct folds. I liked that it was a short and quick lesson, it didn't take up too much time and I felt accomplished when I was all done.

My culture of learning would be open to ideas, creativity, and pushing boundaries. My classroom would be organized but not in a way that limits people's ideas. The students would be open to exploration, creativity, and all ideas. My classroom would be organized as well because a messy classroom gets nothing done. It is the worst.  A tool that could help keep kids organized is a notebook. The notebook would help get the students ideas down on paper, help the students track what they are doing, and would also help them to learn for the future. They could also go back in their notebook to see what they did previously and review how it worked or how it did not work. They can use the notebook as a guide to how they can improve.

Map-Making Lesson: 

1.  Have everyone sit at their table and pass out paper, tape measure, and crayons. (>5 min.)

2. Explain the activity (~10-15 min.)

3. Explain what a compass rose, and a key are. (>7 min.)

4. Demonstrate how to use a tape measure. (>5 min.)

5. Have the students start working on their map and give time for them to measure. (~15-20 min.)

6.  Once finished making maps have the students get into pairs, pass out candy "treasure" (>2 min.)

7. Explain how to hide their "treasures" (~3-5 min.)

8. Have students hide and find treasures (~10-15 min.)

9. Finish with a review of the activity (10 min.)

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