WK 10 : Planning

This lesson was creative! Next week we are going to Essex Hieghts Primary School to teach a drama lesson based on ‘Inventions’. So today we are organising what we are going to do.

We first looked at how the students were going to be involved in the drama…what could they be: Inventors, technicians, Salesmen, engineers and many more things. We looked into what warm-ups we could use such as playing the group game, where students get into groups of whatever number the initiator yells out and then they can continue to run, skip, hop, jump and roll around the room (whatever the instruction given is). We decided that we could do this but add on a little extra part where each group has to create a machine such as a dishwasher, washing machine or computer with their bodies. We tried out another warm-up game called ‘Museum’ where when the guard turns around the animals come alive and go back to being frozen before the guard catches them out, if the guard sees them move then the object is out but if the object gets away with it the object becomes the guard, i thought this could be fun but also a little out of control for grade 3 students. We could have done it in a toy shop etc. We looked at Robots aswell, which i thought served no purpose to be invented.

The next thing we spoke about is the students being the best in their field at something and having them be called into this conference to have to develop a mode of transport for the future. Jess then suggested a science fair which she got from the movie ‘Meet the Robinsons’ , Jo then said that was a great idea so we had planned it all pretty quickly. We were to have a machine number warm up, students would be told that they were to make future modes of transport and draw them up in groups, then they would be told they must make one design that would be entered into the science fair and a winner would be selected from the inventions they made up.

Each member in our class has a role, there is an environmental officer, an innovator, a future woman and a minister. the rest of us were to be judges giving feedback! Im sure it will go very well!