Practicum+One


 * Pre-Reading Activities**

It is very hard for me to pinpoint specific pre-reading activities because all of my cooperating teacher’s classes (physics and chemistry) are the kind where the information builds on its self at certain points then seems to switch direction suddenly. Right now, the chemistry classes are discussing entropy, free energy, and enthalpy and the physics classes are working on waves and sound. Only enthalpy is a topic previously discussed whose formulas can be worked through again. I think for now he only lectures what will be assigned to read for homework. He uses Power Point slides, real-world examples, and visuals during his lectures so students will have an idea for what will be read. His reading assignments are only done as homework with quizzes the day after that ask for the formulas introduced and for the students to work out a problem similar to one in the text from the examples. I will have to wait and see if he goes back to relate the discussion to previous chapters as we move through harmonic motion (which relates the most to waves than the other forces previously discussed). However, like I said, with waves and sound, it is like starting fresh considering the students got to this point right after angular and linear momentum. If I had to give an idea of a pre-reading activity, it would be to define the vocabulary and theories/ laws that will be mentioned in the section that will be read. It would be easier with linear motion to angular motion because you can use the ideas of what was learned with projectiles and merge it with what was learned with hanging forces to understand adding vectors. With those, I would request students to write down a list of formulas they believe would be needed in the upcoming chapter and have them explain why they believe they are important to the concept.