I read in “The First Days of School” about lesson plans. I have made
many lesson plans before as a volunteer for my church. You plan what
you want someone to learn, and then the activities you will do to get
them there.

 Then I thought about teachers that had used this in their teaching and
I realized the the most comfortable assignment I had finished recently
had a very detailed lesson plan.

 The assignment was to take apart and reassemble a computer. The trick
was we had to film it and cover certain computer parts and terms. The
lesson plan was a single sheet of paper that covered how to do the
activity. It was easy. Even when we didn’t know something, we could
get on the internet and find it out because we knew what we need to
know. I could just check off each item as my group or I covered it.
There was no guessing or sitting around being confused.

 So I realized in most everything we do or teach we should have a
lesson plan, which is really just a fancy term for deciding what we
want to happen, and making a plan to get there.

 Amazing how something so easy is so important.

 This is the link to our movie. Don’t judge, I didn’t have much time
to edit. 🙂

 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFsGhv2qZ0?wmode=transparent]