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Coal As A Social Issue

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The social issue that was chose for my lesson was centered on the use of coal. Coal is an ever growing problem around the world, and students need to become more aware of the negative effects that coal causes because many people are losing sight of the cause and effect between our coal use and our environment. The topic is interesting because even though most individuals have a drive to decrease their carbon footprint and are making necessary changes to use natural resources are energy sources, the United States of American is still very dependent on coal. It is important for students to become more aware of their energy uses and know the impacts that come along with energy consumptions. Students may not realize the impacts that coal has …show more content…

My peers were asked to begin the task without little explanation as to why we were focusing on coal. Therefore, the activity did not seem to impact the students, or promote a connection to the activity that would cause them to reassess their own energy consumptions, or desire to make changes to conserve energy. The students made warm comments as to how great the activity was and cool comments on how it could be better. One cool comment recommendation was to slow down my language when presenting the lesson activity to students. This recommendation is accepted and appreciated because I did become wordy; I felt that in order for my peers to form a connection to the activity they needed as much information as possible. I decided to use the cool comment to make changes to my lesson, such as make the activity simpler so that it does not cause students to become frustrated or …show more content…

In developing an activity I need to work on keeping my activity focused around my objective. I noticed that I was trying to get the students to do more in the way of multiplication and division than one measurement conversion. Although this activity did have a lot of math in the form of multi-step procedures, I did this to challenge my adult peers when I should have created the activity for a fourth grader. As far as presenting, I feel that I could improve the lesson by making several key points that can be presented within the activity or the opening of the activity that would help to impact student to understand why we are focusing on this particular social

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