Reflection

On Wednesday, November 4, 2020, my lesson was about the food chain for grade 3 in the
second period. In this lesson. The students were able to explain that all living things depend
on each other for food and drawing a food chain.

At the beginning of my lesson, I check a student’s prior knowledge by showing them pictures
of living things and non-living things and ask them questions. For example, Where do you
live? / Who can tell me what are the living things in Alain? / So, Alain has non-living things
as what? I encouraged them all the time by showing pictures that help them to understand the
questions in an easy way. Then, I showed the new vocabulary in the lesson. They told the
meaning of words in their language Arabic. In this stage of the lesson, I use Schema theory
by Piaget in vocabulary learning. They will use their prior knowledge to guess the meaning of
new words using pictures that I showed in the class that help them to memorize and
remember the words. This part is considered the most interesting part because they could
make brainstorming to tell me the meaning of the vocabulary in pictures. Some of them told
me in Arabic while others told me in English, but I accepted their answers. Every one told in
his or her way. this method helps the students to understand before the teacher explains the
lesson because they can understand all the vocabulary what the means the teacher during the
explain lesson.

The next part of the lesson came to the video; it was the video of the lesson about the
food chain. I encouraged them to participate in the lesson using new vocabulary and asking
questions. I chose students randomly to answer the questions. All of them could answer the
questions. Moreover, I used a brainstorming question to motivate them. They were very
active in the class.

However, the activities appeared as the most successful part because all the students could
draw the food chain correctly in order and they can explain to me pictures exactly. All of
them were linked by using the Narepod program. These activities measured a specific level.
All students could respond to me and get the correct answer. They all were enjoying the class.
 Finally, the period finished, all of us were very interested in the science class that has a
lot of information. Here, many goals were achieved starting from the food chain and ending
with the quiz where the students were able to understand and absorb the lesson. There were
many strategies used. Next time, I can use the "games" new strategy that also helps all the
students to keep their attention and learn and share the answers with the teacher during the
lesson.