In the midst of my sleeplessness due to this class, I've come up with my telecom lesson! Second and Third grade students learn about animal adaptations so I'm going to involve the website Journey North (http://www.learner.org/jnorth/) to help out. Journey North has a symbolic Monarch butterfly migration, so I'm going to tell the kids that JN is considering a second symbolic migration since the Monarch project is so successful and they are asking readers for ideas. The students will research the monarch along with 3 other migratory animals on that site (and other sites provided). They will keep a blog of their animal comparisons and their suggestion for another symbolic migration. Once they've collected required information, then they will email JN with their ideas. With 3rd graders I would include a Photo Story presentation, but with 2nd graders, they would just write the letter/email. I'm hoping that JN will send us an email or poster as my exit strategy. :)
I feel pretty good about this lesson and am hoping it works out well!
Sounds great Amy! How much do your 3rd graders already know about Photo Story? Would it be an attainable goal for them?
ReplyDeleteThe 3rd graders would have no problem with Photo Story, I've used it with them before when creating a Greece/Rome photo story. The time is the factor. If I actually do this lesson, I'll scratch the photo story if we run out of time.
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