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Well it is definitely a close-to-home feeling for me with this lesson plan assignment. In that I mean that if feels like I have to make a lesson plan for a class that I will actually be teaching. In other words, I am getting the butterflies in the stomach. The idea of having to make several lesson plans that must correlate with an entire unit is much more overwhelming than just coming up with something for an afternoon's junior high class. It is also close-to-home because I am in charge of the manufacturing weeks. This is right up my alley with teaching hands-on assignments and building all kinds of things. It is beginning to scare me though; I never really thought about teaching so many different hands-on subjects at once. I also never really realized how it would be to try to demo, teach, and supervise 30 students efficiently all at once. Even though it is just for an assignment, therefore I won't be teaching it any time soon, I get scared to think that I will be responsible not only for the education of the students, but also for their safety. I get scared that I will get a bunch of students who don't really want to learn, but would rather goof off and mess with the tools incorrectly. I don't anyone getting hurt. I also don't want to worry about those who don't listen during demos. I get it down. It will be okay. I guess that these are issues that I must consider in my lesson plans. I think I need to premeditate about would I could do and would do under certain circumstances. We shall see what happens.