Week 14 Reflection

This being my second to last week at school I was trying to wrap things up while still maintaining continuity in the class. Over the thanksgiving break I attended a conference and I was fortunate to come away from that with some classroom materials. In a play money auction I won three classroom lab kits and amazingly they fit right in with the unit that I was moving in to this past week. The topic of this new unit was DNA and so I started with a kit of DNA models. I would normally have the students build DNA models out of some random materials or food but it was really nice to have this kit because it was organized and much easier for the students to work with. I was very happy with how the lesson from the kit went and I think that the students really enjoyed having a hands on experience once again. I hope to next week use another one of the kits that I obtained.