Here is my final project, ever evolving and hopefully improving with student input..
The science fair really is the final unit of my class and take about 4 weeks of work to come to fruition. I'm planning to have my students make "In Plain English" scientific method videos early in the year and I want to link the best up with the wiki for review. Students will be able to use the Science Buddies site to choose a project and then during the research phase share additional helpful information on the wiki. I've asked them to share their topics with me on a wallwisher.com board. The final digital display I'm thinking I may leave up to students. I plan to introduce- with the help of my awesome teaching partners- some other applicable web 2.0 tools so they should have some basis for making a choice. I modeled Glogster with the "home" page of the wiki because I think that this will probably appeal to most of my 6th graders, being a "poster" type. I have a rubric that I use for the science fair that students help modify each year so the rubric is TBD. I'm deciding between having them share their projects on Edmodo or a specific blog set up for that purpose. That will probably depend on access issues at my school.
Here is my wiki: http://cubscientists.wikispaces.com/
Very neat! I love the glogster embedded on your home page. Very creative and engaging! I imagine that your students love you! I like the wallwisher site to add sticky notes about topics too! Great job!
ReplyDeleteI posted on our class wiki, but, in a nutshell-love this idea. You put a lot of thought and design into this!
ReplyDeleteNice job!! I think your students will really enjoy the creativity that you put into the intro to this project. One quick note...unless I was doing something wrong the link to the scientific method doesn't work. The links that you have are great! I love that you give them resources to start thinking and just like Nancy said, that you use the wallwisher to process and decide on topics.
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