During the first day of teaching our group (like most) had a slow start with the first rotation of fourth graders. It was the same as the last biosite last semester. After a few minutes we managed to break though to the fourth graders during the ICE BREAKER that Heydi came up with. Emily had used a similar game with the forth graders last semester. After the icebreaker we passed the photos of the pollinators around to the fourth graders and asked what was one thing that they found similar. They had come up with many different similarities, but the main thing we where looking for was the fact that the pollen was stuck to the pollinators. We then asked them about the things that they already knew about pollinators. After they gave us a few facts we transitioned the conversation over to the flowers. After a few minutes of flowers we brought out the flowers and gave each fourth grader a flower to break apart and find the different parts of the flowers. While they where breaking up the flowers Natalia and I switched on the microscopes and Heydi opened up the poster she made. After they where done ripping up the their flowers we had them look at the poster and name the different parts of the flower that they ripped open.After each of them named the different parts of their flower we had them take turns looking through the microscopes to take a closer look at what they had done. Each group went like this throughout the first day of teaching, all but the introduction. We where able to better go through the icebreaker WAY more smoothly.
During the second day of teaching Heydi and Natalia couldn't make it to teach, so Alias was moved to my group to help me teach. Things went the same way as the first day with all but one group . We had used the same icebreaker that my group used during the first teaching day. Anyway during one of the groups we had a minor......Bullying problem. A few of the girls started teaming up against one girl, who seemed VERY exited about BioSite and couldn't seem to stop talking about it.
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