Independent Study 2 Approval

1) Write a description of what you plan on doing for your second independent study.

2) How does your independent study 2 relate to your EQ?

1)     My second independent task is one key element for my senior project, which is teaching the astronomy. I planned to teach different levels of education. I have my presentations and activities done in my first independent task and now it is time to use it. For this component I am trying to see the difference of teaching methods for each grade level- elementary, middle school, high school, and college. I have emailed different students who are willing to participate at least two hours once a week for each grade level. I am pretty excited because it is something I have been waiting for a long time. I know the subject pretty well and hopefully everything goes according to plan. Moreover, I will be analyzing each students work and their progress from the beginning till the end. This will be inserted in a table and I’ll be making some observations as well.

2)      This independent task relates to my EQ because it’s going to give me the experience of teaching the astronomy class. I will know how to interact with each grade level differently and hopefully come up with my final answers for my EQ in May. I am confident that I am going to succeed because I have worked so hard on this by researching, talking to experts, and putting everything together to prepare myself for this component. I am guessing at the end of this independent task, I will most likely approach my two hour presentation with excellence. I am very excited to begin!

Independent Study 1

Literal

I, Imelda Martinez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work. My independent task consisted of powerpoints and visuals that will help me teach a class in a couple of weeks. I created a digital  portfolio that contains all my powerpoints(13) and visuals to organize myself. The visuals are from different sources that I looked in books and are essential to my lessons. Furthermore, I'll be taking a portfolio tomorrow in class  that show some examples of my work, but it does not contain everything because there are many slides.

Interpretive

My independent  task clearly represents 30 hours of work. I am preparing myself to teach students the essentials of astronomy in many ways as possible. My powerpoint lessons took a long time to conduct because I have so much knowledge of how  students learn that I want my presentations to be successful. I took in mind every vocabulary, picture, and even the color of the background. I can say I did a pretty good job demonstrating the topics in a fun way for students. My powerpoints contains information about the subject, but it also contains activities for students. I research as much topics I saw important and I put it in into a powerpoint. Moreover, I also have visuals for the lessons that will be passed around to students, work as a question, and will be used during some activities. I chose this pictures according to what I'll be teaching in each lesson.

Applied

My independent task helped me answer my EQ. It has helped me realize how hard it is for a teacher to come up with lesson plans. and be organize every day. In order to do my presentations, I needed to get familiar with the subject. I needed background on every topic I made in every presentation. It tooked researched and patience really. I took in consideration the students as well. I was constantly thinking if students would even pay attention and actually learn the material. I am yet to find out if my astronomy presentations and visuals are successful or not, but I am confident  it will.

Evidence: in class portfolio given to Ortega as well.

 

Log

Topic	Objective	Summary	Time Spent
Intro To Astronomy	Students will learn about the essentials of astronomy.	Sun Planets Asteroids Comets astronomers	Dec 29, 2010 11:00 A.M- 1:00 P.M         Dec 31, 2010 3:00-4:15 P.M
Our Solar System	Students will learn about the our solar system, the Milky Way. What it contains and how it has shaped life here on Earth.	Milky Way, Structure of the Solar System, Movement of how the solar system can to exist and how it revolves around	Jan 4, 2011  5:00 P.M - 8:09 P.M
Comets	Students will learn the importance of comets in our solar system in order to understand how they were created and contain origins.	Halley’s Comet Orbitational of a Comet Tail Development of Halley’s Comet	Jan 9, 2011 3:43-5:07 P.M
COMETS, METEORS, ASTEROIDS	Students will learn the different satellites and objects revolving around the solar system.	The Cause of Meteor Showers 1997 Leonids from                        Orbit Two Showers for Halley Barringer’s Crater	Jan 12, 2011               1:32-3:12 P.M.              Jan 13,2011 7:10-8:00 P.M                Jan 14-15, 2011              10:00 A.M - 12:30 P.M.
Historical figures in the Copernican Revolution	The students will learn about the Coperican Period.	The Copernican Revolution Ptolemy                                          Galileo                                        Kepler	Jan 18, 2011               6:00- 9:00 P.M
Quasars, Active Galaxies and Gamma-Ray Bursters	Students will learn to differentiate the different types of Active objects around Earth.	AGN                                                gamma-ray                                       emission lines                                       M. Schmidt	Jan 19, 2011               3:00- 4:00 P.M                7:30-9:00 P.M.
GALILEO	Students will learn the accomplishments of Galileo.	Galileo's Telescope                                                    Satellites                               Jupiter's moons                              Vocabulary	Jan 20, 2011               5:00- 7:20 P.M
Mars	Students will get some knowledge for the red planet. Discoveries that have been astonoshing to scientists today.	Decribes movement of the Mars History of the planet                        Moons                                                     Life on the planet	Jan 22, 2011              7:00 P.M-8:00 P.M        Jan 23, 2011               3:00- 4:10
Origins	Students will learn how scientists have been able to discover the origins of the universe.	Big Bang Theory                                   Inflationary or evolutionist theory                                                     cosmos                                                   Atomic Number/Isotopes                Deuterium/Tritium Fusion	Jan 29, 2011               3:00 P.M- 4:30 P.M         Jan  29, 2011                8:00-9:00 P.M.
Planets and rocks	Stundent will gain some knowledge of the eight planets in the Milky Way and other object revolving around the sun.	Terrestrial Planets, Judicial Planets, asteroid belt, comets, meteors	Feb 1- 2, 2011           6:30-8:00 P.M
The Planets	Students will learn about each planet in the Milky Way; they will learn some characterisctics of each planet and the facts.	Pluto Neptune Uranus Saturn Jupiter Mars Earth Venus Mercury Sun	Feb 7-9, 2011                8:30 P.M-10:00P.M
Solar Eclipse	Students will learn about the Solar Eclipse and understand the differece between a Lunar Eclipse.	History of Solar Eclipses                   Structure                                                Reasons why it occurs
TOTAL			32 hours and 18 min.

20 Minute Presentation

Goal: Make the audience understand how students learn astronomy?

1.       Show them pictures and ask them questions  to see how much the audience knows regarding to the big bang theory adn the expansion.(3 min)(Powerpoint)

2.       Indentify the pictures and give a brief description. (2 min) (Powerpoint)

3.       Talk about the objective of the pictures and questions, which is: (3 min) (Powerpoint)

a. Learn how much the student knows towards the subject

b. Get the students engage and excited

c. why it is important to give a brief mini lesson

                      4. The audience will conduct an experiment by blowing bubbles, which relates to the big bang theory- expansion of the universe. They will be in groups and will discuss how it relates to the big bang and expansion.(5 min)

     5. Explain the objective of the experiment. Students should understand how much they understand the topic and pictures in the end of the experiment and how they started in the beginning of the lesson. It demostrates that having the student's interest, allows them to pay attention to what the instructor is saying. Plus, it helps the students retain what is being taught.

(5 min)

6. Conclude the general concept of how students learn the subject. Ask rhetorical questions that shows an instructor showing the same concept, but in another way. Ex: What if I would have lectured you from the beginnig of the lesson about the topic? How it differs to the presentation that I conducted.(2min)