Teaching Space

In Science methods class, we had to teach our classmates about the solar system and different things in space. I great way to do this was using the digital tool Time toast. Out of the four of us, we picked a random NASA article each. Then we created a word wall using WordCloud. This was a great way to introduce a space lesson, and pre-assess students learning. We used our word wall words to find more information on them, like when they were discovered and by who. For example, a word of ours was STAR, so we talked about the first person to discover that the Sun was a star and that was Anaxagoras in 450 BCE. We created 13 events out of the 13 words on our word wall. As we taught our colleagues about Space, we made sure to elaborate more than what was on the board, we often repeated what we already learned. This is a good thing though so we can implant the information into their minds more. Finally we used a Kahoot, another digital tool, to create a summative assessment of what our classmates just learned. The Kahoot only had five questions, but it told us if our classmates understood our lesson or not.

Link to our Time toast