Native American Tribe Presentation

     With our original teaching group, we created a new lesson about Native American tribes to our fellow classmates. My group was assigned to the Navajo/Dine' tribe and here is a link to our Google Slides presentation!

    This was a very fun and effective project that I learned a lot from. I thought it was interesting that we were tailoring our teaching to our peers, instead of elementary school students. Our lesson plan outline was exactly like teaching the elementary school students, but we created activities and questions that were college grade level! I found our lesson to be super engaging with the class. After we were able to observe our colleagues lessons for the Bishop Dunn class, we were able to use some of their tips and ideas to create a very stimulating and effective lesson about the Navajo Native American Tribe. 

    We used so many different platforms to engage our peers. For example, we began our lesson with a rap song on the website Flocabulary. We heard back from our peers that they found the video to be very entertaining and attention-grasping to start off our lesson! We also used matching, sorting, and fill-in-the-blank activities to guide student learning. Lastly, we used Jamboard and Quizlet to exhibit our confidence in more online tools. 

    All in all, I found this direct instruction lesson to be super fun! I learned a lot as I was researching and creating the slides, and based upon our colleagues remarks afterwards, they seemed to agree that our delivery was effective and stimulating. I think we used a fair amount of online resources to tend to differentiation of our peers, which also helped to create an engaging lesson.