ETEC530 66B

Monique Waters
Professor J. Egan

Lesson Reflection
The Wilderness School cooking lesson I created for this assignment will
be put into action this September when my colleague and I take our
classes to my family acreage. I have been taking classes to this site for
many years but this will be the first time we will be there for an entire
week. In the past, the lessons I had planned and created contained
elements of constructivism but lacked the links to prior knowledge,
meaningful discussion to encourage multiple perspectives and a
culminating activity to allow students to reflect and integrate new
knowledge. More time should also have been allocated for each of the
activities to allow for deeper, more meaningful learning opportunities.
This cooking lesson will be used 8 different times over the course of
the week, as different groups have the opportunity to use the outdoor
cooking space. Despite the many changes and revisions I have already
made, I anticipate that each time this lesson is put into action, further
enhancements will take place. As I prepared the different supporting
pieces for the lesson, I found it necessary to revisit the lesson outline.
Often the creation of a student support or the table outlining the
constructivist models, highlighted an area of the lesson that needed to
be changed or an element that should be added.
Through this process I tried to ensure that students had opportunities
to learn, reflect and revise. I felt that this was an element missing from
some of my other lessons. For instance, in this lesson, with the division
of tasks it is probable that groups will have to revisit their initial plan
and make changes once they begin working on their cooking project.
It is important that students know that they can change their answers
once new information becomes available.

Based on this model, I will be adding further lessons to the site to

support a building project, nature art project and animal inquiry
project.