Teaching+Artifacts

=== **In this section of my portfolio, you will find some examples of lessons and activities I have implemented into the two classrooms I have taught in. Below each picture or document there is a brief description of its purpose and how I used it in the classroom.** ===

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===**The next few pictures are of some kindergarten mathematics lessons that I taught. When I first arrived in the classroom I began the unit on shapes and measurement. I focused on preparing hands-on, meaningful and engaging lessons to ensure that my kindergarten students were getting the most of the lessons. At the kindergarten age, students learn by doing, so all of my lessons are based on the students gaining experience to enrich their learning and, hence, their overall comprehension.**===


 * ====This is the first lesson I did to get the students thinking about shapes in the real world. I cut out shapes from construction paper and we all walked around the school searching for shapes in everyday things. When the students found a shape we talked about the characteristics of the shape. The student then stuck the construction paper shape on the corresponding shape they found!====




 * This lesson involved the students looking through magazines to find items from everyday life that are shapes like their piece of paper. The students were divided amongst four different tables with each table being responsible for filling their shapes paper with cut-outs from the magazines. And viola! Shape collages!




 * ====As I mentioned, these pictures are of lessons from the unit on shapes and measurement. The previous four pictures are from a beginning lesson on capacity. I set up four centres which each allowed students to explore and discover capacity in their own way. In Kindergarten, measurement is very basic, and as I stated earlier, it is important for them to "learn by doing" which is exactly what they were permitted to do with this lesson. Each centre taught a different aspect of the capacity portion of the unit and allowed the students to explore these aspects in a manner that was meaningful to them.====





__**Lesson Plans**__
I am a strong believer in creating a sense of community in my classroom. This lesson is an example of how you can create lessons that meet the requirements of the curriculum, but also create this sense of community and care amongst the students. The lesson required students to understand that each and every one of them is unique in their own way. They wrote down different characteristics about themselves and their family heritage on quilt squares, which were then sewn together to create a class quilt.

This is Science unit developed by myself and three other colleagues. It is based on the "Invisible Forces: Magnetism & Static Electricity" unit from the Grade 3 New Brunswick Science Curriculum. The lesson are designed to engage students and include various different learning styles.

This is an example of a Choice Board project based on the Grade 5 New Brunswick Social Studies Curriculum. This unit explores the First Nations people of North America. Students were to choose either a row or column to complete by the end of the unit by themselves or with a group of up to three people. By having students choose a row or column (instead of choosing three assignments from any row), it still gives them a chance to choose a project that they are interested in and corresponds to their learning style, but it also requires them to explore other learning styles and become more skilled at them. There is also a choice homework assignment page which required students to choose two of the five homework options. The homework options were designed to be engaging and non-strenuous, but still requiring the students to learn.

This lesson was designed for a Grade 2 Mathematics class during my first internship. The flow of the lesson allows for a change in activities to ensure that students are continually engaged throughout the lesson. Each activity is engaging and interactive for the students with a variety of manners in which the activities are completed such as SmartBarod activities, individual activities,and collaborative group work activities. When I design an activity like this, it incorporates a variety of learning styles and ensures that students are engaged and learning throughout the entire lesson.