Embedded Files
Students will use this tool to create videos that demonstrate their understanding of the topic/lesson. They can also use this tool to make videos that show their work from the labs and experiments in class.
Students create a digital poster to show their evidence that can include text, hyperlinks, videos, and pictures. It is an interactive poster for them to display their learning and make connections on the facts and concepts.
The padlet tool will be used for our Wondering Wall. Where students will post notes on what they know, want to learn, and what they are wondering about on the concept and topic of electricity. They will work with the teacher and class to organize the questions and wonderings into investigable and no-investigable questions.
Google Apps
- Google Classroom - Here the students share their learning, answer questions that are posted, comment and provide feedback to their classmates, and upload their assignments.
- Google Drive - Students will store and save files in Google Drive for their educational portfolio.
- Google Slides - A presentation tool that can also be used as their inquiry notebook.
- Google Docs - A tool that can be used by the students to document their evidence and findings from labs, and to be used an inquiry notebook.
- Google Drawing - This tool will be used as a digital poster and blueprint for the electricity project. Students can include hyperlinks, text, images, and videos.
Since the webcam option was removed from the Google apps, the students will need another option for taking photos for their inquiry process. This tool will allow students to take photos in the chrome browser, and save them to the chromebook or Google drive. Then the students can upload their photos of their work and discoveries into other apps and programs.
WeVideo
This video creation tool can be utilized by the students to share their learning and evidence from classroom labs. Students can create videos with the webcam, and must be under 5 minutes. They can also include in the video demonstrations of their work in picture or video clip format. It works with their Google drive and Google apps account. They can upload content from the Google drive to WeVideo.
Websites
- About Electricity. (2017). Course Grade 4 - for use with NGSS (NEW) Unit Electrical and Thermal Energy Transfer. Discovery Education. Retrieved from https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/techbook/units/F607D71A-E05F-42DA-9AB4-A49546785DF9/concepts/44BB21FC-B5CF-4B66-B808-FA82F0FABC6F
- The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits: http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/
- Electric Circuits activity
Class Dojo
The teacher and the students will post in the Class Story feature of Class Dojo of what was accomplished and learned in the classroom. Students will generate the posts and take the photos to share with the families that are connected to the Class Dojo accounts. Students can also add to their personal stories as a written blog, video entries, and pictures of their work and evidence from the labs and lessons.
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