RIch Activity Lesson (Tin Man)

     I learned a ton about trial and error in this lesson. You may expect a lesson to go one way and it will end up going somewhere completely different. I think that the lesson went over very well over all. I think that the main idea behind the lesson worked well and that everyone enjoyed the activity. It took forever to cut out the foil pieces and the lesson felt a little rushed. This was a lot to complete in such a short amount of time. We slightly modified this lesson for class so the whole class made a tin man together rather than in groups. It allowed students to work with a couple different shapes without them being overwhelmed with all of them. We talked about precutting squares and splitting the lesson up into 2 or 3 days in order to help solve some of these issues. 

     I think that the other two groups learned a lot from trial and error today as well. We were all able to give each other perspectives that we may not have thought of on our own when we were reflecting after each lesson. I really liked all of the activities that were taught today and I can see myself using them in future classrooms if the situation fits. I haven't really thought of math as a hands on content area until this class. I feel like everything we do or talk about proves that theory of mine more and more wrong.