My Typical Lesson Plan

I realize that my lesson plans became quite monotonous, but it was my first try and I realize now that I can really use some differentiation.

This is the general way that my classes at Wheable went;

-Catch class's attention
-Ask questions about yesterday's lesson
-Start new powerpoint

Each student had a fill-in the blanks sheet based on the slides that they could fill in.

I found that this was really handy so you can move through a lot of content quickly, but sometimes I changed the order of my slides shortly before the lesson and then the sheets wouldn't match up. It caused a lot of undue stress and confusion.

-Ask questions during powerpoint (some slider were exact repeats from previous lessons in order to drill in important vocabulary)
-Introduce activity (i.e microscope lab, computer lab, or cut and paste activity)
-Walk around the class as students work on the activity

In the SBIO3U class we had a lot of labs because the plants unit is the only time they get to use the microscopes in the course so they needed practice. I really enjoyed these labs because I taught them how to take photos using their smart phones, and I thought it was a really cool integration of a technology that most teachers don’t allow in the classroom.

-Write vocabulary words on the board (the students get these every day and had a book to write the words and definitions in)
-Assign homework activities
-Announcements and clean up

If you have any tips or suggestions on how to make my classes more differentiated, please feel free to comment!