Selu Bedroom Observation Report

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On Friday, April first I will be attending Selu, and leading the living room. Selu is an old farmhouse that was restored to show off history in an interactive and hands on kind of way. For this Selu event, I will be in the living room, where the focus is on the radio, the sewing machine and the casual presence of a bed. At this presentation I will do my best to fill the minutes with factual and interesting information that is related to the beautiful farm home. I am looking forward to also meeting a bunch of fifth graders and gaining more experience by volunteering and entertaining the students in an educational way. For the living room, I have developed twenty different questions. For my questions I have come up with ten relating to the radio, eight relating to the sewing machine and four relating to the bed. Starting off with the bed in the corner of the room. I will begin the presentation with the students sitting in a circle on the floor. We will observe the room for some time and then I will begin by …show more content…

My whole life I have been surrounded by music, I am constantly listening to something or singing along to a song in my head. Because of this, I will start off by asking if any of the students are particularly interested in music, listening to the radio, or watching television. I will explain to them that the radio then was like how the television and Internet is like today. From there, I will ask if anyone has a radio or a particular song that they love to sing along with on the radio. I would pose the question of what life would be like without music and how they would exist if radios did not exist; from there I will ask about a little history, to see if anyone knows who did first recording, which was Thomas Edison 1877, or when the first radio was made, which was in 1900 by Gugliemo Marconi. From there I will ask how radios work and involve the kids in holding up the antenna to get reception for the radio to

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