Blog 19:4/28/15

Blog 19

4/28/15

On Tuesday the 28th I volunteered for Dr. Davis' lab from 6-7 and from 7-8.  I will now discuss my experience with the 7-8 lab.   This lab is set up in a different manor than the one prior.  Everyone is in the big gymnasium and there are two main teachers.  The rest of the teachers just assist as needed.  At the beginning everyone is with a few students working on an instant activity in small groups.  Each group did a different thing which was cool to see.  One group was using the stacking cups to warm up.  This looked like a lot of fun so I gave it a try!  Some groups were throwing a football.  One group was using a scooter.   After the two main teachers took over.  The teaching styles the two teachers used were stations.  One station had the students using a modified version of a hockey stick.  The students stickhandled a ball through the cones and at the end they shot the ball into the goal.  The next station used the scooter one student sat on the scooter and the other student pushed them around.  The next station involved dribbling a basketball and shooting it.  A throwing station followed.  I was asked to help out and run the scooter station.  The groups were split up into threes so I had to adjust a little bit due to the uneven number.  I had two students work together on one scooter and I worked with the other student on the other scooter.  I started off pushing behind the student but my back started to hurt so I went and got a jump rope.  I had the student on the scooter hold onto the handles and I held onto the end of the rope.  I would move about at different speeds and have the students steer the scooter.  The students loved this so I rotated the students through on who could go solo.  We even tried two students on one scooter when I pulled.  One student and I were almost dancing to the music when he was on the scooter.  This a fun and we had to figure out different dance moves.  After all the groups went by the teachers ended with a cool down in their mini groups.  Overall, today was great I got to meet new students and had fun with the scooter station.  I liked giving students choices on what they would like to do on the scooters.  This helped motivate them.