Teaching Inquiry

For the second lesson, my group and I had to teach an inquiry lesson. This lesson I focused on writing the lesson plan. By this point, my group and I learned about each other and how each of us work. Inquiry is the idea that a problem needs to be solved. The class we were working with find group work exciting, but they can get too loud or off topic easy. My two cooperating teachers and I really tried to keep every student focused. They really seemed to enjoy working with their peers. I learned a lot from doing group work with the class because as a teacher, they must keep on top of the entire class, not just the group they are working closely with.
We used a fairly new technology to me: a Voki. A Voki is an animated figure that speaks whatever you type it to say. We created the Voki to present our problem: the truck driver needs to deliver goods and does not know where to start and finish. The students seemed to find it very funny and knew exactly what the problem is. As a backup, we printed out a letter as to what the Voki exactly said. This also was beneficial to hand out and have the students read along with the voice speaking or go back to re-read the problem.