A Request for Advice: Demo Lesson?
I am very excited to be given an opportunity to teach a demonstration lesson to 21 (teacher described "energetic") first graders on Monday. As many of you may know, a demonstration lesson is a step in the teacher interview process. Through a demo lesson, a teacher proves themselves capable of putting together and executing a lesson plan, as well as illustrates their ability to interact well with children.
I will be teaching for forty minutes. The teacher whose classroom it is said the kids love stories with follow up art/writing projects and science projects.
The science project would be mixing cornstarch and water to make goop and observe the properties of liquids and solids. The story could be any book, but I have a book that doesn't have any words and I thought it would be great to ask the children to write the words of the story.
Reading a story would be much easier than conducting a science experiment, but would also contain less academic learning than a science project. So, my question is this: If you were in my place, what would you lead a demonstration lesson on?
