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| Snapshots of Fulton's Prezi Presentation |
The weekend before Thanksgiving, our school hosted Grandparents and Grand Friends Day. Students brought their grandparents to school to share the morning with them. This posed a challenge for our PE teacher, Lesley Fulton. How was she going to teach a class of 30 PE students and their grandparents? Fulton, who happens to be 2013 Backpacker Magazine ultralight upgrade makeover winner, devised an interactive lesson on reading bearings for her freshmen PE students and their grand guests.
Fulton began the class with a Prezi
presentation and demonstration on how to read and follow a bearing on a compass.
Afterwards, she then divided the students and grandparents into small groups,
distributed compasses, and then sent each group to a different course she had
set up around Rosary's campus.
The set of courses,
which Fulton aptly titled The Grand-lympics, consisted of four different
trails. Each path had four stations that included a picture of a human muscle
the team had to identify, a question the students had to ask the grandparents,
and bearings that led the group to the next station. Fulton created an answer
sheet using Google forms and then used Goo.gl to shorten the URL so that one
student in the group could easily use her mobile phone to access the Google
form and fill out the form as they navigate the courses.
From my
observations, Lesley Fulton's lesson was a success. Students were able to walk
around the campus with their grandparents while learning how to use a compass
and reviewing the muscles they were going to be tested on later that week.
Lesley applied technology to her lesson in a way that enriched the experience.
Students were able to use their phones to complete the task, no handouts needed
printing or collecting, and best of all, the results would be legible for when
Fulton graded the answers at a later time.
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