Hi, welcome to my 3rd blog post! During this project, I have learned a lot that will help me in my teaching career. Our research project was based off the famous book, “Blubber,” by Judy Blume, which taught students about bullying and the deeper meaning of not saying something when you see something wrong. Making this project off an elementary school book, such as “Blubber,” by Judy Blume, has taught me what it is like to make a lesson plan for students. I definitely learned what is like to create a lesson plan and what tools I can use to help the students engage in the lesson. I learned the tools and the techniques I am able to use when teaching a lesson plan. The goal of the project for us was to teach students about the lesson in the book and find a way for them to look at the their meanings through the tools we used. While building my research project, I found new ways to teach our students. I can not only use a powerpoint to help breakdown the novel, but use a video and also challenging and helpful questions that go along with the book. The different kinds of tools I can use or the students was helpful for my future lesson plans also.

Throughout the project, there were some points where I found myself stuck. I wanted the students to be engaged in the novel and look for the deeper meaning besides the main lesson, which was bullying. I was not sure how to do that and I wanted to do something else besides the powerpoint where they can just read about the lesson. It was also difficult to come up with questions that let the students think about the meaning of the book nd not just simple questions.

Judy Blume’s novel, “Blubber,” was a great novel that taught a lesson for elementary school students. She taught the problem of bullying in an interesting way and also found a way to teach students about the problem of sitting back and not saying anything when they see something wrong. Teaching the lesson she wanted students to learn was difficult due to the way we wanted to teach it. We wanted to let the students discover the lesson in “Blubber,” rather than us telling them. When designing our web tool, it was difficult to find one that we liked that would benefit the students and help them understand the book in a challenging, yet interesting way. After picking our tools we are using, it led us to other ways we can get the students to engage in the novel. We often found ourselves frustrated when we could not come up with questions that would help the students find the lesson. It took a lot of brainstorming to come up with reasonable and challenging questions for the students.