Day 3 afternoon

Describe how your students learn best.
It depends on who they are. This past year I had many who were kinesthetic learners as well as auditory and they needed to be able to move a bit in and around there seats and be in a place where they could hear well, all that was going on.
In general I feel students learn best when they can relate to what you are teaching them. Telling them it will be useful later in life does not keep them enthused about what is being taught in the classroom. the students learn best when they have some frame of reference to what they are learning.
In Science I set up a recycle area. There were bags for white paper, boxes for newspaper, and box for the tabs on the drink cans. We then give them to an organization that collects them to make the lancets for diabetic testing. I also brought in a three bin recycle center which the students were able to place other recyclable items and then I took them home. We had very little trash after this and the students were able to see the results of true recycling in the classroom.
Hands on is always best