Technologies:
Computers
iPads
Integration:
Students used computers/iPads in order to practice converting within the metric system using the "Horrendous Soup" online game. If the computers and iPads didn't work, students partnered up with each other to play the game together. Students watched the instructional video on how to play the game and some students still didn't understand how to play it; so I brought the class back together so that I was able to explain how to play the game in a more simplistic manner. Students put ingredients into a bowl of boiling soup in the game and, at the end, a recipe card popped up for them to convert their ingredients into various units depending on what ingredient they put in and how much of it was put in.
Time Management:
My mentor teacher and I had established a broad time period in which I had to instruct and implement an activity and assessment. The time frame was from around 9:05 a.m. to 10:05 so that I would have time to establish a stopping and cleaning up point for the students before I continued on to another fourth grade classroom for literature circles. When technological issues started occurring, my time management was shot. I tried to modify the issues as much as possible while still providing a formative assessment but my teacher looked at the clock and told me that I was losing time and I was late on wrapping up the first part of the lesson because I failed to check on how the computers would work. After he helped me on the modifications for after I came back for literature circles, I was able to manage the activities and assessments better. The instructional time was perfect for time management; but I needed to make sure that I chunk information in the future when I have instructional periods.
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