Lets start with the fun and games. Overall the development of lessons has been absolutely wonderful. I have had such an amazing time with both Lena and Nicole and I am so thankful I was put into a group with this two incredible women. The three of us were like pieces of a machine functioning and helping one another to create some awesome lesson plans. Once we would get talking about an idea we would all build on each other and find the best way to make it work for each targeted grade level. Even when our amazing idea was uploaded a couple days later by the Florida teachers, we did not let that discourage us and we moved on to something different. I can honestly say this is the best group I have ever worked in and I believe our success of three lesson plans for multiple grade levels were all because of that.
Now some of our lesson plans focus heavily on the website. We chose to make some of our lessons work for classrooms that don’t have access to technology by downloading the graphs and data for them. It seemed like such a wonderful idea until the website decided to take a mini vacation for a couple days. Although that put a little kink in our flow, we moved on to all the other aspects of the three lessons. Eventually the site got back up and running and we were able to save our graphs and data for the lesson plan, but I’ll admit I might have been just a little nervous after day three of no website.