Here’s another gem I got from Al Beamon. This Animal Habitat TechQuest was created by a a teacher in Fairfax County so it is aligned with the SOL. If you use the activity, be sure to make alternate arrangements for the quiz. the online version of the quiz emails results directly to Mr. Rossen.
Many of you know Al Beamon, he taught 4th grade for many years at Brighton before he became a TRT. Quite glad he joined our team as he’s a really talented guy with great aptitude for the job. every once in a while Al shares a resource that he has found and is using over a James Hurst Elementary. So Al’s most recent share was for animal habitats. GlaxoSmithKline has created a website on animal habitats. Check it out I’m sure it will be helpful.
This is primarily for third and fourth grade teachers. While studying the food chain, you might dissect an owl pellet with your students virtually. Those with an MCPS system or a Promethean Board could do whole group instruction in the class. You also could decide to use the computer lab for this activity so that everyone could have some “hands on” experience.
http://www.kidwings.com/index.htm is the link you’ll want to go to. Thanks to Alice Mercer who shared this resource via Plurk.
Last week it seemed like everyone was working on plants. One of my first grade teachers, Ms. Marks, asked me to add some plant interactives to the Victory Portaportal. The second grade went to the farm and looked at plants and the fourth grade was charting the growth of some seds they planted a few weeks ago. I thought Mrs. Petry’s use of the Promethean board for student graphing was cool and I wanted to share her kids’ work with you.
Good work Mrs. Petry!
Mrs. Taxson asked me to do a review activity with her class, so I decided to try out the VoiceThread application with them. They had fun, I had fun, we all had fun!! Wanna see what we did? Check it out:
Thanks to Chrissy for the tutorial on embedding VoiceThreads. I would never have been able to figure it out on my own.
