Can You Find the Treasure? November 6, 2009
Posted by Ms Tulli in Class News.Tags: conferences, Geography, Mapping, oral reading, peer editing, Process, self-editing, Social Studies, Strategies, technology, Writing, writing process
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Our projects are complete and demonstrate a great deal of learning across various subjects. Students worked to practice and apply the following concepts and skills in their work.
Writing
- using procedural writing to communicate directions
- using sequential words to organize their writing
- including details and description
- using the writing process to self-edit, peer edit and conference with teachers before publishing
Reading
- reading aloud clearly with expression and appropriate pacing
Geography
- map components - key, compass rose, title
- using cardinal directions to navigate
Technology
- saving and retrieving files from a thumb drive
- using Notebook software
- keyboarding
- giving thoughtful feedback to other students’ via the blog
Enjoy! Hope you find the treasures!
World Landform Tour September 24, 2009
Posted by Ms Tulli in Social Studies.Tags: Geography, Google Earth, Landforms, Mapping
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Welcome to our world tour featuring some of the most interesting landforms on the surface of our planet!
While this was certainly a mini research project, the children needed to use a variety of skills and strategies in order to complete their portion of the tour. Students had to
- independently learn information and concepts from their independent reading
- identify and then record the main ideas and concepts from their research - no copying out of books allowed!
- use the information they recorded and be able to explain and organize it into a mini paragraph
- develop and use their tech skills to save and retrieve their work on a thumbdrive, use Microsoft Word to publish their work and imbed their work into Google Earth
Please follow the instructions below to access and view our World Landform Tour. Thanks to our Elementary Tech Coach Mr. Utecht for helping.
Enjoy!
Instructions
If you don’t have Google Earth installed, download it here.
Click here to download our World Landform Tour.
Double click the name of the file to open it in Google Earth. Look under the “Places” heading for the folder called RM211 Landforms. Open the folder and click on the place marker to start your tour.