Google Earth is truly amazing! Think of all the virtual field trips and scavenger hunts you could send your students on!!! I went from viewing the vegetation and bamboo forests in Hawaii, to the craters on the moon on Google Moon! Erosion and Deposition occur on the moon, which you could send the students on a web quest using this site to compare how erosion and deposition are different on the moon and the earth!
The Google Calendar could be used for teachers to inform parents of what is coming up in their classes! This would be a great way to share a public calendar instead of having to print it out for all of the students! I use this with my husband so we always know what the other one has planned...
I think that the Google Alert program is a great resource to use in our classrooms by sharing with the students science that is occurring in everyday life! So many of our students don't realize that science occurs all around us. This could be set up as a station for kids that are early finishers. They could pick one of the topics to read about, and then share with the rest of the class. We need to peak the interest of our students to make them want to learn!!! I think this is a great way of doing it!
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Thing #6 Mashups
Mashups were a little complicated for me. I think that the mosaic website was really neat. I really liked the magazine cover creator. As a teacher, I could create 10 topics for students to journal about. Each 9 weeks could have a different magazine cover and could be set up as a center in the classroom. I tried to create ideas that would make the students interested in researching science:
1. why do my armpits stink???
2. why do I need those crusty things in my nose??
Are boogers and armpits in the TEKS? No, but they do get students to think and want to know why their bodies having defense mechanisms. They will learn about all sorts of things that will make them want to learn and understand how and why things work, which will lead to the core concepts in our TEKS!
1. why do my armpits stink???
2. why do I need those crusty things in my nose??
Are boogers and armpits in the TEKS? No, but they do get students to think and want to know why their bodies having defense mechanisms. They will learn about all sorts of things that will make them want to learn and understand how and why things work, which will lead to the core concepts in our TEKS!
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