Everybody Needs a Rock
The interdisciplinary lesson that most interest me was the Everybody needs a rock a lesson. As a kid I loves collecting rocks and observing their color and shape. There are smooth rocks, rough rocks, bumpy rocks and wavy rocks. Most kids love collecting rocks as kids and I thought this is an ideal lesson plan for kids because they can relate to this project. This lesson plan helps kids critically think, use their sensory, use mathematics, and use the science in the compounds and molecules rocks contain to form. More than one discipline is used in this lesson because with all the disciplines used together you can explain and understand more the object.
For this lesson students are to collect three rocks that look different in size and shape that they like. This part I like a lot because every student will come up with their personal taste, and it’s interesting to see what they come up with. This is the critical part because they get to evaluate and choose what attracts them. Next they put their rocks together in groups, and place them in the middle. Once they have observed their rocks the rock will be mixed. Then students will get blindfolded. Students will have to recognize their rock while they are blindfolded. This step I believe is the fun nest because they have to analyze the rock blind folded, and by sensory they will have to find their own rock. Lastly 10 rocks will be chosen out of all the rocks to be classified, weight, and measured.
Students can understand that science and math can determine why a rock looks or feels a certain way. The math makes it fun because they can use a ruler to measure and water to find out the mass and volume of that rock. The sensory they use helps the psychological part in their brain, because it stimulates their brain according to the texture of the rock. The technology that can enhance the lesson more is a digital scale and even a telescope. By adding technology it can make the project more fun and interesting.
Reference
Gordon, S .Leslie (2002, March 1).Technology. Retrieved June 12, 2010, from
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0018.html

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