Assignments for this week

How does this sound?

Google Documents:  Make the final decisions about how we will incorporate e-pals and google maps to allow students to be able to see the differences between different areas of the world.  Then, polish it up so that it is ready to submit.

Google Map:  Each one of us pick two locations from around the world (let's try to make them as different as possible) to represent a group in our classroom and include the information on the map.  I already included Kalamazoo as a reference point for our classroom.  I will pick two other locations though.

Let's try to get this done by Thursday night as we agreed for our deadline!

Check this out on E-pals!

Hello girls,

I was looking at e-pals this morning and found this very useful resource for us.  It has lots of ideas about how we can go about our project.  We can obviously adapt it for our own purposes but I think it will help us with some of our objectives and give us ideas!

http://www.epals.com/projects/info.aspx?DivID=Weather_overview

Google Map

I set up our google map and sent invitations to both of you to the emails you gave me for the blog set up.

Should we have our students find out what the weather is in different countries in the world? 

I set up an example placemark at Kalamazoo, MI.  I know I have to be missing some key information that would help the students to understand climate and weather from around the world, so let me know what other information our students should gather through e-pals.

Direction Question

This is all on the attempted concept map blog, but I haven't got any replies for a few days so I wondered if you two saw this.  The part in blue is what Kelsey said and my reply is in black again.  Am I on track or what direction are we actually heading for the final project.  Also, Alyssa, I don't know what two days you are doing the weather journal on, can you let us know?  We already started on this for this week.

 

KMW said...

Concept maps do not need titles. I do believe that someone from the group emailed me...Leah. Just posting here to make sure you know.

So you final project, which all the assignments and everything you have them doing, will be towards a weather journal? Is that correct?

This is ok, just asking. Why do you deem a weather journal important? I am just interested in knowing how you concluded this, so don't feel you did anything wrong.

My understanding was that the weather journal was going to be used as a tool for the students to help them to understand and record weather.

Group, correct me if I am wrong or you have another opinion as to the final project aim.
Below is what I replied:

My idea was that after students have learned about different aspects of weather that they could work together to make their own weather station and forecast weather. They could also make a video of their forecast as if they are real meterologists.

Is this the idea you have for a final project in project based learning?

Module 4

Can you guys both list your email address on here, so i can invite you to use our folder on Google Documents?

Thanks!

Weather Journal

I just figured that we could make one run on journal, so that it would be easier to view when necessary. I will begin tomorrow, and we can all post on here!

Web Sites

Here are a couple of web sites that I have found so far.

http://theweatherchannelkids.com/weather-center/

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/