Reflection

On Wednesday, October 19, 2020, my lesson was about the plant life cycle for grade 3 in
the third period. In this lesson. The students were able to use the vocabulary related to the life
cycle of a plant.

At the beginning of my lesson, I check a student’s prior knowledge about how plants get
their nutrients and how it become bigger. then I show them pictures of the plant life cycle. I
encouraged them all the time by showing pictures. 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. 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.

The next part of the lesson came the worst part of it, the video got stuck from the program
of Nearpod and I had to start it again but from the computer itself. I was very disappointed
but after that, I promoted the students to see the video. It was the video of the lesson about
how plants get to bigger starting with seeds and ending with the adult plant. I encouraged
them to participate in the lesson using new vocabulary they have just learned and their prior
knowledge about plants. 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 as I divided my students into
three different groups according to their levels, the levels were Emergent, Development, and
Master activities. All of them were links by using WordWall and Quiz program. these
activities measured a specific level. All students are able to respond with 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 plant life cycle and
ending with the quiz where the students were able to understand and absorb the lesson. There
were many strategies used. Next time, I would vary the sources of educational materials and
will not use only one I will use several programs except online or without such as
PowerPoint. I also must put backup copies of the video and games on my computer in order
to be able to manage the time in the lesson without any problem related to technology.