Science

Week Seven: Science project

Our group decided to do 2nd grade Science. Standard 3:
Students will develop an understanding of their environment.
Objective 2 Observe and describe the weather
a.Observe and describe patterns of change in weather.
Content
The teacher will do a mini lesson on the seasons.To support her teaching she will use kidspiration technology.
The pedagogy
The pedagogy is observing and describing patterns of change in the weather. Students will see different patterns of weather like rain, snow etc.
Technology
In order to do that the teacher will use kidspiration to engage the students into learning about the specific patterns that exist between seasons. For example, to show winter time I will use the symbols for snow and place trees that have no leaves.
Using kidspiration is a good match because it allows the teacher to show the students what the characteristics of a season looks like by using the pictures. Also there is a chart that shows that there are four seasons in a year. This technology allows the teacher to teach the students without going outside the classroom.
Presentation
I know that some students are visual learners so this will be a great thing to incorporate in our teaching and I think is a good way to present this information in an interesting manner.

Wetlands

Making this virtual tour was very helpful, I did not know that Google provided so much great technology. We can use this great technology in our classrooms especially since we can not take the students physically to those places of interest.

Week 5: Virtual tour

For my virtual tour I decided to do 4th grade Science Standard 5 and the objective is that students will understand and recognize the characteristics of wetlands in Utah. Students will have the opportunity to compare two lakes sizes by using the measuring stick.
Another activity they will be able to do is to find characteristics present in wetlands and compare them to deserts.