The Last Step Back In Time: Ancient Rome

Here we are at our last stop on our road back in time.  Erica and Kristine used a great technique for note taking.  On the slides there will be a star by any information that the students need to copy down on their graphic organizer.  The direct lesson covered the government, Julius Caesar, architecture, and gladiator.  After the direct lesson, the students got a short break before moving onto the inquiry lesson.  In the inquiry lesson the teacher-candidates used a bar code scanning program.  The students use Ipads to scan codes and match the correct information.  This was a great task for the students because it allowed the students to get up and move around the room while doing their work.  For the cooperative learning lessons the teacher-candidates used the same tool that my group did.  They used ThingLink for their students group work.  The students worked in groups to create a ThingLink on a topic given to them by the teacher-candidates.  The one thing I realized from their session was to not have to many different graphic organizers for the students to use during the direct lesson.  Having only one graphic organizer helps keep the students focused and organized.