Planning, Planning, and More Planning

This week has been a very hectic week at school.  Many assignments are due this week and there have been many visitors at school.  So you can imagine that not having a Pathfinder meeting this week was amazing to say the least.  This week, instead of helping out at Pathfinders, I went over the material that I will be teaching soon.  The Heredity honor consists of lessons about genes and how they play a role in the appearance and processes of the human body.  I will most likely be teaching the older kids (probably 7th-10th Grade) so they should have at least a basic knowledge of what a gene is.  I am excited that we have just started studying this concept in my AP Biology class so I can refresh my memory on what needs to be taught.  The basic process of this honor will be to create a worksheet that addresses the suggested areas of the honor to let the students write the answers as I teach.  The students that do not complete the sheet will not get the honor.  This is not a test to see what they have learned, it is just a way to make sure that they are paying attention and hopefully learning something.  I think that there will definitely be a challenge in teaching the kids (about 10-15 or so) because of the size of the group.  I am trying to make the lesson interesting so that I will be able to keep a hold of their attention and teach them something that they maybe have never learned before.  Prospective start date for the honor is next week, but it may change.  I will be ready either way.  This will be the second honor that I have taught in addition to classwork, so I feel like I am getting used to teaching the kids.