Today I did a compare and contrast lesson in my internship class about snakes. I began by having the students look through the text to get familiar with what they were about to read. Then I set up two hula hoops to make an interactive Venn diagram to help them compare and contrast two of the snakes from the text, the Western Diamond-Backed Rattle snake and the Desert Thread Snake (or the Western Blind Snake). I picked out details from the text prior to my lesson so I could type them and cut them out for the students to place in the Venn diagram. I decided to have the students read the text as I asked them which details belonged to what snake. For example, one of the details I found in the text was "Eats mammals, birds, and reptiles." The students then looked through the text to figure out which snake I was describing. When the Venn diagram was complete, the students had to write a short paragraph to explain the similarities and the difference between the two types. This showed me what they learned and if my lesson was affective. I could tell the students really enjoyed the lesson because they were able to search through the text to figure out what snake I was describing as a group.
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April 2017
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