Reflection of the first day of fieldwork at BDMS

In my past blog I had included my thoughts and experience from Artifact bags.

I feel Artifact bags are a great way to teach students because it gives them a chance to understand a topic and share their own belongings that go along with their specific topic.

Like I had already shared, my groups topic had to do with banking and savings. Each group member had brought in their own artifacts that had to do with this topic of banking and savings. We had brought these artifacts with us on our first day of fieldwork at BDMS.

There are four different groups and each group had a different topic. We each went around the classroom and shared our artifacts with the students. For example, my group had shared my checkbook I had brought, a wallet another group member had brought, check receipts, and a fun hamburger piggy bank. Students really enjoyed this. We included a fun artifact as well (hamburger piggy bank) so they can have fun while learning. We asked many questions with our artifacts such as, "How many of you have seen your parents with a checkbook before?" Many students had awesome answers such as that they have their own checking accounts. I was very surprised and excited to hear all the students input on this topic and how much they had known about it already. Showing them our artifacts was fun and important for their education. This can give them ideas to do their own artifact bag for a certain topic in the future.