How I Used Technology to Enhance One of My Lessons in the Practicum

• Lesson objective: Students will share with a partner one thing they learned about weather •Use technology to keep the students’ interest in the lesson• Introduce pictures of weather the students may not have experienced before• Include a fun activity that has to do with weather

The first slide of the presentation

Students are giving me

examples of different types of weather that

happens in Utah

Normal Weather

Here is one of the slides from my presentation

The students looked at normal weather and talked about normal weather for

Utah

Extreme Weather

We also looked at different kinds of extreme weather

Lightning was one example I used for extreme weather

The students loved the pictures that were in my

slideshow

As I showed the slideshow, students were able to tell me which types of weather they had heard of before. Most students had never really heard of

hurricanes before.

• Mostly teacher use

• Students were involved by viewing pictures

• All students had easy access

• Promoted student involvement

• Most effective for picture viewing

• Creates motivation

• Keeps students engaged

•Motivational, but also necessary for all to see, more interactive

• Focus was weather

• Although created excitement, students learned intended material

• Was fun for kids

• Allowed access for all students

• Very visually pleasing

• Not easier without technology

•More interactive learning