Continuation of Midterm Projects

Today in Dr. E's class, the groups continued to perform their projects. Today's experiments were very different compared to Tuesdays in dealing with the way the projects were presented. On Tuesday, several of the groups had handouts, whereas today a few groups had powerpoints which I thought were very beneficial. It is not that Tuesdays groups did a bad job at presenting, but I believe that it helped to have a powerpoint because then the students could physically see what the groups were saying and read for themselves, instead of listening to groups speak freely. I think today's experiments were a little more exciting then Tuesdays because today two groups did an experiment that dealt with food that we could eat at the end of the experiment. I really enjoyed doing the midterm projects and I hope that we do them second semester too. One of the main reasons that I liked doing the experiments, is because I was able to get ideas from several of the groups and potentially use those experiments in my classroom someday. I also really liked how the groups specified the age level that the children should be performing the experiment because sometimes it is difficult to determine age appropriate activities. Even though the experiments have taken up two class period already and another one next week, I am very thrilled that we did midterm projects!