For my integrated social studies lesson this semester, I
collaborated with Erin, Kylie, and Kiersten. We decided to write 3 lessons that
correlated together. Our first lesson encouraged the students to see what it
was like to develop a government from scratch. To do this, we set up the scene
by pretending that we were on an airplane that crashed on to an island. We told
the students that we were never going to be rescued so we have to figure out
what to do next. The students moved from talking about survival skills to
discussing important aspects of government. Aspects like laws, police, leader,
judge, etc. This was a very interesting lesson. I learned that our group of
students are can get very passionate when explaining their ideas. It was fun to
see students get so engaged, however, the students were not quit ready for this
type of setting. It went from polite sharing of ideas to an argumentative
debate. Erin and I both agreed that if this was our own classroom, we would
have ended the lesson as soon as it got chaotic. We would then attempt it again
until the students were able to handle that type of learning environment.
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