NAT Project Reflection

Dine / Navajo

Our group prepared for Dine/Navajo Native Americans. Here is our presentation link. 

When I prepare for the lesson:

We covered their history, five themes of geography, culture, religion, clothes, food, habitat, famous people, and their generalization. While I was preparing for the lesson, I had fun to learn a new culture. I discovered many interesting facts about the tribe and I tried to be creative to teach this topic. I prepared for the parts of their traditional clothes, food, and habitat. I wasn't able to bring any traditional clothes, but I brought a food bag with their primitive food and I tried to make a model of their houses. I made a wood frame for forked stick hogan and it was really hard to make it. However, if I am teaching in the real classroom, I will pass it around as a sample and I will encourage the students to try to make the hogan. I believe they will love to make it. It will be an hands-on activity so it will help the students to be more engaged to the learning.  

After I teach:

The presentation went really well and we had very informative information on our presentation. Even though it was little bit long, we had covered everything that we needed to cover. In real classroom, I thought we could have two days of direct instructions so we don't overwhelm the students. My personal reflection on myself as a teaching, I will practice more speaking in front of people. I will try to speak louder too. I will continue build my creativity when I create my lesson plans.