Week 4 of Science After School focused on camouflage and learning about the pepper moths. The kids did some different activities to help them understand the importance of camouflage and even created masks at the end of the lesson. They had to create a mask that they felt would blend into the environment in the book, "Where the Wild Things Are."
I had a great time working with the children and although I was teaching them they were teaching me as well. I was able to get a chance to work with the kids and help them enjoy science! There's so much that goes into planning a lesson, and even though Miss Traci, and I, Miss Megan, got off to a rocky start with planning to broad of a topic, once we had the camouflage idea everything else fell into place.
We created habitat pictures on a piece of construction paper the kids felt their animal would blend best with, we looked for pepper moths (newspaper moths) on a newspaper background, we read a story about the moths and why they changed colors,and we created the masks! Our room was decorated to resemble a forest and it turned out really cute! Science After School was such a great experience!
Thank you to all those who participated and all those who helped out throughout the weeks of Science After School!!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment