The final Tech Club went very well. Andi planned a great Mad Libs activity that the kids had a lot of fun with. As it is the end of the school year, I strongly believe that having fun in Tech Club and After School is key. The students at this time of year are maxed out, and the more like a game we can make activities, the better. We used the website http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ and had the students generate various Mad Libs. Then we printed one out for each student and they could share with Tech Club if desired. The students had a lot of fun and were fairly on task the entire time. They were all pretty tired, apparently they had been on a field trip all day and had done a lot of walking around.
Some thoughts on Tech Club, as a wrap up:
The club was fun, but fairly disorganized. Students seemed to come and go as they pleased (i.e. if they didn't like what we were doing that day in the club, they would return to After School). They seemed to think Tech Club was just to play computer games, so I don't know if that's what the last students did with them or if they were just inexperienced.
There should be a list of students in Tech Club and they should commit to the club for 6 weeks (or the length of MSU student placement). Our group varied day to day from 8 3rd grade boys to 15 students of various ages to 2 girls, one in 5th grade and one in 2nd grade. It was challenging to plan a lesson or activity without any idea who is going to show up to the club.
I understand it is the end of the year and students are pretty all over the place, as well as having other after school commitments, but it would be helpful to have a little more organization and consistency.
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