My MEL Experiences

• Student/teacher relationships My Geography teacher was one of the best examples of Student/teacher relationships. She was extremely energetic, and she would walk around while the calss was working and talk to everyone, not just about schoolwork, but about things that were bothering us, friends, extra-curricular activities, music, and anything else that came up in conversation. She is the type of teacher students enjoy having in class, and staying after school for.
• Autonomy At the end of my freshman year of high school, my teacher had us do a project about what we thought love is. The project came after the class read Romeo and Juliet, and we could do anything we wanted as long as it was about what we thought about love. I made a picture book with pictures I had taken of my Barbie dolls modeling the different characteristics of love. This is still my favorite project, and it is the one I had the most fun doing.
• Context In my AP Human Geography class we studied cities at the end of the year. To make it more interesting we had to draw maps of how we thought the city we lived in looked, and we looked at the city the school was in using GIS maps. It made learning about how cities are designed more relevant to us.
• Hands-On In my Geometry class we had to make a 3-D model of a cube with a triangle on top to show that we understood angles and different planes. It was kind of frustrating because I do not work well with most art related projects, but it got the point across.
• Interest During my sophomore year, our teacher was pregnant. She went on maternity leave while we were doing our unit on genetics. While she was gone, the teachers formed this elaborate project wehre they pretended that she had been kidnapped. We got together in groups and pretended we were teams of FBI agents investigating her disapperance. We got our own badges, and we did tests on hair samples, blood, ink, and we interviewd other teachers, and even the principal to find out who had kidnapped our teacher. It was one of the most complex projects I have ever done, but it was also the most fun.