Kelly and I were a little less nervous this time setting up for the lesson, because lesson one went pretty well. We had an idea of how much the students knew about rocks and minerals and had everything planned out. We also had all of the materials ready to go for the students. Once the lesson started we could not calm down. We both became very nervous, because we needed to know facts about the different types of rocks and the rock cycle. We were nervous about what questions the kids asked and if we could answer them correctly or at all. Kelly, my wonderful partner did a great job reading to the class "The Coolest Rock" book. She stop in between to explain what the different types of rocks were for the children to understand. The teacher wanted us to really emphasize the rock cycle to the students so we thought that book would be a great way for them to understand. Even at the back of the book it had a picture of the rock cycle and how it works. I explained the rock cycle and was very nervous because I did not want to mess it up. We also went over the rock cycle song, explaining what each line meant and asking the students what they thought it meant. The teacher did chime in a few times to explain the rock cycle, which was a great help!
For some reason after all the students went back to their seats, Kelly and I seemed to calm down a bit and walked around observing and asking the students questions about the different properties of the 12 rocks. Kelly had a great idea to make a worksheet for the students and to use three of their senses to describe the properties of each rock. We used our sense of smell (wafting), sense of touch and sense of sight. The teacher did have to interrupt and talk to the students about doing a better job on their worksheets, because they were not doing the best work they could. Kelly and I realized we can make an example worksheet of what we expect from the class, so they understand how much effort they should really put into it. We really need to work on time management for our future lessons, because we went over the 45 minutes and did not give the students enough time to observe the 12 rocks. We realized we should have given more time for the hands on activity. For our next lesson we plan to time everything in order to complete the whole lesson. Overall, I would say Kelly and I did a great job and I am very excited to start minerals!! :)