Getting the project going: Dave’s perspective
Ok, so school has started and the formalities and crises are out of the way. Time to start with lessons. This is where the Solar Panel Project comes into play, which tends to be one of the toughest areas in dealing with a project. How to plan lessons so that the students learn the info they need for the solar panel project and not have it disrupt the flow of my plans. Being able to work directly with another teacher such as Wes makes it easier to plan my lessons.
What we learned from the first Hipp Grant for the Wind Turbine is that it helps if you are flexible. Some parts take longer for the students to grasp and some they may fly right through. We know that in the first few weeks of school we need to be in constant contact with one another so that I have time to –teach; re-fresh – students the concepts of perimeter, area, volume and scale drawings, in a way that it doesn’t mess up the timing of other concepts they are learning and they know it by the time they need it for the Solar Panel / Greenhouse Project.
That’s where we are at now – emailing our daily lessons to each other and talking in the hallway whenever we get a chance. More to follow as the weeks progress.
