This lesson plan entails a procedure that required me to provide my students with background knowledge. While planning for this lesson, I had to determine their exsiting knowledge as well as what they needed to know in order to conduct the experiments and gain the most from this investigation. For this lesson, I provided students with knowledge on cockroaches by reading an informational book to them. Then I worked with the students to define "pest." Next, I had to introduce the term, "Integrated Pest Management" and explain what it meant. The class then worked with the term "barrier" and came up with a definition for it. Furthermore, I introduced three types of barriers: physical, biological, and non-toxic chemicals. Each of these were explained and defined. All this background knowledge needed to be provided and discussed with the students in order for them to take away the most from this investigation.

The background research that I did for drag and my 3-day science teaching demonstrates that I have an understanding for what I am teaching. The experiments listed are an example of my understanding of how to teach this topic to students.

These differentiated instruction sections of various lesson plans demonstrate my ability to understand children and learner diversity. They show how I plan for diversity in instruction through the creation of lesson plans.

This paper demonstrates my ability to use learning and devlopment when planning and implementing lessons because of the pre-interviews performed. These helped me to plan instruction that would cater to the students' needs because I had an idea of what they already knew beforehand.

The physical environment rationale part of this paper demonstrates how I use school and classroom factors and characteristics in planning. When setting up my classroom, I had to take in to account all the different features and aspects of the school and of the room itself.

These objectives from a variety of language arts, math and science lessons demonstrate my ability to develop instructional goals that are appropriate for my students developmental level. These objectives show that I understand my students and what to expect of them at an appropriate level.

The objectives that I created for my MESS projects demonstrates my ability to develop appropriate instructional goals because I made them devlomentally appropriate and designed to build off the instruction.

This journal demonstrates how I have designed short range opportunities for student learning and assessment by describing the ways I changed my lesson when re-teaching drag in another third grade class. By re-teaching I had the opportunity to create even more short range learning experiences that allowed the students to take more from the lesson.

This is a math assessment that I gave the students. It was graded on a 4 point scale. This demonstrates my ability to provide short and long range opportunities for student assessment. The students were instructed to work individually and do their best work not only because it was going to be graded but also shared at conferences.

These three science assessments demonstrate my ability to design short range opportunities for student assessment. Through these assessments I was able to see how students were understanding the topics and if they could apply them when asked to do so. These served as a form of assessment for my inquiry project but also to reflect upon my own teaching.

These word study packets are graded every week in order to gage students' progess in writing and spelling. This is an example of my ability to provide long range opportunities for assessment.

These are examples of the concept webs my students created based on a book about Nigeria. They used Kidspiration software to create the maps. Each group was to web a certain part of Nigeria: land and climate, food, schools, work, etc. This shows my ability to incorporate technology and to support learning through technological means.

This virtual field trip that I created demonstrates my ability to incorporate technology into instruction and create instructional resources and materials. It shows this because the students are interacting with the internet via computers. This is a resource the children can use to learn additional information on a topic of study.

This website is home to the four podcasts made my students this year. Each podcasts discusses various science topics the students have learned about in the classroom. Groups of four created the podcasts. These podcasts demonstrate my ability to create instructional resources and materials because I used them as a way to deepen students' understanding of science concepts. These podcasts were viewed by peers after regular classroom instruction and reinforced their learning.

The community building section of my CLE plan shows how I plan for a inclusive, nurturing, stimulating and academically challenging learning environment. The community building activties that I plan to do will promote social interaction and peer-to-peer cooperation which creates a favorable learning environment.

The lesson sequence and procedures section of this lesson plan demonstrate my ability to plan for a stimulating and academically challenging learning environment. It shows my ability to plan for activities that will challenge and engage my students.