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Earth science or the atmosphere project 
I Really loved the earth science lessons we did this week. I always had a hard time with earth science in high school and middle school. But the atmosphere project I was assigned to do made me realize how fun earth science could be. At the start of the week we had to read chapters 10,11 and 12 of the textbook Teaching children science: A discovery approach written by Donald DeRosa in order to familiarize ourselves with the content. The second thing required of us was that we had to do the engaging part of the lesson. This part included filling out a questionnaire on topics that we thought we could teach extremely well to children, fairly well but having to study for an hour in order to teach it, having to study for more than one hour to teach it or not being able to teach it at all. When going over the questionnaire I had the most trouble with questions involving the atmosphere. One the questionnaire was finished we then were put into groups and had to teach an inquiry lesson on the topic we had trouble on. The next part was to focus on the explore and explain part of the lesson. This is where we discussed what we knew and didn't know about the atmosphere and what we could do to improve our knowledge. We also had to explore the links provided to us in order to get the materials we needed for the lesson we then had to create a powerpoint based on that lesson.  Creating a powerpoint with my group was very fun and it was part of the elaborate section of the lesson. my group got along well. Before completing the powerpoint we each decided what part of the atmosphere we had to complete on the slides. I was told to do the troposphere. Once I went on to the resource provided it was extremely easy to get the information that I needed. My group had also split the work evenly so no one did too much or too little. The final part of the lesson was the evaluating section. This is where we asked how much our peers knew from being taught about the atmosphere. We used Kahoot and padlet to assess our peer's knowledge. Overall I believe that this project gave me a better understanding of earth science

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