So I taught my outdoor education lesson today and it went way better than I thought it would. I explained the rules for the game in the classroom and assigned them their “roles” for the game. It is sort of a “predator and prey” type game with different titles, all about animals and survival and that kind of stuff. It was a little bit of a chaotic start since they were really excited and a little chatty while I was explaining the rules. The game is kind of complicated so I was worried that they would be confused and it would be a mess. But they caught on immediately and barely had any questions.
When we got outside I slightly lost control as I’m not really a yelling-type person and they kind of spread out outside. But we eventually got the game going and they seemed pretty enthusiastic about it. My co-op said that this was the most active she’s seen some of them in a long time so that was exciting. Half way through we switched the “roles” in the game and I had some of the more shy students in more dominant roles and that seemed to be a good change since they had a real job to do. At the end I did some questioning and they were willing to volunteer lots of answers so I’d say the lesson was a success.
For next week, we’ve once again been given the instruction to basically do whatever we want, whatever subject. I’m kind of running out of ideas off the top of my head for lessons so I’ll have to do some googling. I seem to always resort back to English when I’m out of ideas so I might try to do a science experiment or something for next week. Wish me luck.