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   Since we've left fieldwork, we've done two group projects and presentations. Our first project was based off of a topic that our whole group felt like they knew the least about. Multiple groups, including mine chose atmosphere. At first, I didn't think I knew anything about the atmosphere, but once we started researching it and saw everything primarily talked about the different layers of the atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere, thermosphere, and mesosphere) I realized that I actually did know some things about the atmosphere. I remember learning about the layers numerous times throughout my years in school. The other groups talked about the layers, but they incorporated some other information; my group really only focused on the layers. Each group had to use a cool online tool to create their lesson; powtoon and glogster were used the most. Here is the link to my group's glogster and here's a picture so you can have an idea of what our presentation looked like:

We included a video and showed the first two minutes during our presentation. At the end of our lesson, we played a kahoot which can be found here.  Almost every group used a kahoot, but nobody got tired of doing it because everyone loves competing against their friends. Personally, I love using kahoot whether I'm the one playing or the one conducting the lesson. It's a fun, competitive way to see what everyone remembers, so everyone enjoys doing it and from a teacher's point of view, it's great to see students become excited about the lesson.

After that project, we worked in pairs to teach the rest of the class about different topics in astronomy. Most people were given a planet to talk about; the one my partner and I worked on was Neptune. It was so interesting to research Neptune and find out so many new things about the planet. I enjoyed watching everyone else's presentations as well because I really didn't know that much about the planets. Here is the link to our class powerpoint with everyone's information! I find science interesting, especially things like this so I loved doing this project and listening to my classmates. My partner and I created slides 23-26.