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Lesson: Your Everyday Garden:
This lesson is to show children the wonders of the earth in their very own backyard! It is also to teach them to learn to respect nature, and to teach them how easy it is to grow something beautiful.
In this lesson children will first, with the aid of a parent/guardian at home venture into their backyard and write down what it is they see. Then in class the children as a whole will discuss what each other saw, and then brainstorm as to what needs to be in a garden or simple what something needs to grow. The students then will be given time to look up on particular websites that the teacher has ready to see what it takes to plant something, and what a plant needs to grow to see if they were correct in their brainstorming. This is a great way for them to practice researching and also identifying facts on documents online. The lesson then will continue so that each student will be given soil, plant seeds, a planting pot, water, and tools to plant with the aid of the teacher. Each student will take care of his/her plant as it is growing each week in class until it is fully grown. At the end when their plant is fully grown, and again after being given specific websites, will go and see what type of plant they grew and what it is called, as well as its origin. This lesson is done to show children in a small way how nature works in the world around them, and the respect and patience it takes to plant and grown something. As well as aiding them in understanding how to research something and identifying facts.

Blog #3 Teaching philosophy

My Teaching Philosophy:
1. Make learning FUN!
2. show and teach CREATIVITY
3. Create great learning environment
4. Give and recieve Inspiration
5. Motivation and Encouragement!

Blog #2

Hi all,
Here is my Blog #2 on Gardner, Bloom, and Dale:

After researching all three I found that each had a little bit of something in common with the other one. Starting with Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory, or the only "learning-developmental theory that attempts to define the role of intelligence in learning". It talks basically about eight different learning styles that Gardner believed people learn by. Second there was "blooms Taxonomy" which basically states that there are three different ways that people learn and divided it into three categories:Cognitive: mental skills (Knowledge),Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (Attitude), and Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (Skills). Each being a different learning style that individuals use, whether they use one or all three. The third theory is that of "Dales cone of experience", which also basically states that individuals learn from their "most concrete experiences to their most abstract experiences". Basically there are also three ways that people learn, similar to that of Blooms way of measuring learning styles and multiple intelligence.
For Gardner's theory I believe that it can support technology integration by the fact that technology allows you to learn in multiple ways just as Gardner states individuals need or already do. However, I think it hinders technology in the classroom, because mainly it may not work for all students, you may run into some problems because students obviously are not all the same. As for Bloom's Taxonomy theory I think that it could support technology integration in an early elementary classroom maybe a little better than that of Gardner's mainly because it is simplified and broken down to three categories of : Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. Because it is broken in to three categories instead of eight you are able to break down the different learning styles much easier between them allowing you to adjust technology used in the classroom in to broader categories.However, you might run into a few snags if you cannot place all the children in just those three categories or you have students wh ofit two or more. This would just make it difficult to adjust the technology for those particular students. Finally for that of "Dale's cone of experience" I think that this one best supports technology integration becasue it allows the children to base there knowledge and learning styles off what they already know. The only negative I think you could have from it would be obviously not all children will have had the same experiences leaving it difficult to adjust the technology used.
As for the three different types of technology uses I feel that for all of them they use Type I technology use, because each theory talks about different learning styles and teachers who understand that and who use different learning techniques will be able to adapt to the childrens different learning styles making it more of an extension of what the teacher knows rather than taking control from the teacher or integrating a new system. As for Type II I feel that out of the three only Dale's Cone is the only one that relates to Type II and that is because that theory is based off of the children's experiences, and the teacher does not really have any interaction with the child outside of class giving them limited control on what the child does experience outside of their classroom. As for the other two theories, I don't think they really relate to that of Type II, or at least not in the sense that Dale's Cone theory does. For the final Type III of technology I feel that all three theories relate to it becasue all three can be adapted to the classroom to be used as a tool for the students by letting them learn and understand their learning styles so that the teacher will have more success with her students. All I think can be related to a classroom in some way and used with technology to become a great learning tool and assest to the class.
In the end I think that all three theories are alike and different in thier own ways but all interrelate to each other making any of them great to utilize in an early elementary classroom!