My MEL Experiences

• Student/teacher relationship: My senior year of high school was one of my favorite years because it was the year I was able to connect with all of my teachers. I was able to have awesome relationships with them that still last today. They all had a great sense of humor, and they showed me that that is a great characteristic to have in a classroom as a teacher.
• Hands-on: Also in my senior year, my AP Biology teacher, Miss. Tripp, had us walk to her house (approx. a mile away) to do a scavenger hunt in her yard. We needed to find a variety of things that were course related and we had a great time doing it. This was a great way to get out of the classroom and away from the textbook to keep students engaged.
• Learning Styles: In my Physics class our teacher had us construct a egg casing that would hold and egg and protect it from being dropped at two stories. We had certain specifications to follow, however, the rest was up to us. This was a great way for students of all intelligences to create a casing the way they wanted to so they would be learn from the experience.
• Connections: This was probably the coolest thing about my senior year: most all of my classes related to one another. My Anatomy & Physiology class related to Biology, Biology to Statistics, Statistics to Calculus and Psychology, and Calculus to Physics. It really was amazing and is very cool to look back on. 
• Context: In AP Statistics we were instructed to design a survey to present to class. We got a list of all of the students in our grade, randomly selected 10% of them, and asked them all to participate in the survey. We could create any survey we wanted, and it was a great representation of how the class related to the real world.