Classroom III

This time of the school year is marked by the traditional behaviors and aliments.  March Madness?  Must be.  It is time for teen aged students to start talking louder, jumping around, and fighting at the drop of a hat.  Girls and boys.  All the high school students want to talk about who is taking whom to the Prom.  They are planning their week or weekend at the beach.  Prom night  is Thursday night prior to Good Friday.  All my students have a running nose from the pollen.  Thank goodness for tissues.  

This being said, it is time for a focused and well planned curriculum.  Tomorrow, my students will work in groups to research sea turtles.  I was disappointed when I could not find any videos devoted to sea turtle.  Not that I plan to just turn on the video and let them watch, even though it is tempting, I wanted to show students how sea turtles move their paddle shaped flippers to help them swim.  I want to help my students observe and contrast the mode of locomotion in turtles.  We subscribe to Unitedstreaming and they only had a couple of title with turtles.  Usually, they have about anything I look for. 

I will have to go through that pile of video catalogs I have been hording all winter.  Maybe there is a video out their for us to use next year.  Maybe I should have planned this Friday Seminar a couple of months ago so I could  have ordered a video.  I just hate overly organized people. 

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