Fieldwork: Group 4

Group 4 took the stage during fieldwork this week at Bishop Dunn.  This group had an extremely tough topic to teach the second graders!  They had to teach them all about international imports and exports.  The common second grader probably has no knowledge of the topic nor do they really care about it but the group did an awesome job explaining the overall topic and engaging the students.  Group 4 started the lesson with such a creative activity to show the students how many different places common products come from.  They had the students go find one object that had "Made in..." on it and share what they found.  Of course, there were several different items that came from all over the world.  I thought this was such a good opening activity to really show the students the concept of the lesson.  The group provided several different examples that the students could really understand.  When talking about imports and/or exports, they used items that the students have heard of such as coffee beans.  The students were shocked to see how many different things come from different countries.  The group provided different activities for their guided practice that worked very well with the class.  Overall, the group did a great job with the tough topic they had!