Today's Lesson on Motion was a success. I used demonstrations to introduce the unit and started off with distance, displacement, speed, velocity, and acceleration.
Tomorrow I will be covering Newton's Laws, gravity, and friction with my flipchart presentation and clicker questions.
I actually incorporated clicker questions into Todays lessons for the misconception questions, but I just used ExpressPoll and a PowerPoint presentation. So tomorrow they won't need as much of an introduction as I originally planned.
Today the lesson actually went a lot quicker than I expected. When I was planning it I was concerned that I was trying to cover too much in one block because it was an entire chapter in their textbook. When i had observed my TIP teacher teaching his lessons in chemistry I was surprised at how long they took for each concept and each term, but somehow I finished early.
I will definitely revise my lesson for tomorrow and add in more activities. I may even extend it beyond Newton's Laws and get into energy and momentum if the students seem to be grasping the content well enough.
Overall it was a very successful day and I am very excited for tomorrow.
I am glad that it went well for you! Nice. Yes, over-planning is sometimes a good thing. ;)
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