MAR & Sea Floor Spreading

If you have a computer lab or smartboard available to your class you could use this website to have students label continents, mid ocean ridges, and to answer questions about ages of rock by continent and in the ocean.

End of TWS

Today is the last day of instruction for my teacher work sample. We'll be doing stations to cover different concepts from our unit.

My learning goals were centered around:

• density
• fronts and air masses
• severe weather
• weather stations/weather maps
• relative humidity

Fronts & Air Masses is a worksheet

Severe weather is an online game or (if computers don't work) a tracking of a hurricane

Weather Stations will be tested on the computer using this site and a worksheet

Relative Humidity station will have students using two thermometers to measure dry and wet bulb temperatures then read a humidity chart. 

I also have a study guide that syncs up with my test pretty well that students will be doing when they finish at a station early. 

Relative Humidity: How to Read a Psychrometer

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Tomorrow I'm teaching about relative humidity and one of the instruments I want to talk about is a psychrometer, which measures relative humidity. As one who has never used a psychrometer before, the idea of trying to explain one to students was a little bit daunting. For future use (for myself and you!) I highly recommend checking out this National Park Service site. They have excellent step-by-step directions for the general public and it really helped me get it down for my lesson.

A Little About Me (from another perspective)

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Student teaching has been a constant reminder that I am in that awkward professional stage. To others in the field I am young and merely a student, yet to those that I teach I am a teacher and an authority. It's quite strange. I wanted to share with you some of the things I have been asked in the past three weeks:

• (by a teacher) Are you a new student?
• (by a student) Are you Mr. Host's substitute?
• Are you a JMU professor?
• Do you have a kid? (to which I responded "Do you mean a human child? No!")
• Are you Mr. Host's wife? 
• Will you be our teacher next year?
• So will you be teaching us until Mr. Host returns in March? (when a student assumed that because I was present, my host teacher must be leaving).

It's really quite strange to be seen as an adult by students. Do I really look like I could have a child? I have never been asked before if I have a kid and it was quite unnerving!