SMART Board Presentation

So I presented my SMART Board game in class on Tuesday. It went better than I thought it would. I decided to present games that would help with a lesson on lice. I used "Hair Force One" and "Jail Louse Rock" that can be found at http://www.headlice.org/kids/headgames/index.htm. They were popular with the class and got a lot of laughs. I do think that the games were helpful because they helped with louse identification, nit identification, and what happens if you do not get rid of the nits. However, these little lessons are not explicitly presented within the games so to use them effectively there need to be moments of silence in the classroom that might be difficult to obtain with smaller children.

If I was to teach a lesson on lice to children I would first give the lesson on lice. Show some pictures of what a louse and a nit looked like, and educate them. I would talk about how lice is spread and what they should do if they think they have lice. Then I would quiz them, and the three students that answer correctly and the quickest to come up and play the games on the SMART Board.

I would also teach the same lesson to teachers so that they could be better educated on lice. However, I wouldn't quiz them and pick the three best "students." I would just ask for volunteers.

I don't know what game or activity I would do in the Philippines to supplement this lesson. I think with adults in the Philippines I wouldn't need any because they struggle with lice and would be able to pay better attention than children because they would understand the importance of being lice-free.