Class 10/0/08

Toady's class period was an out of class lab that consisted of two different assignments. The first was to meet with our partners and form and outline for our upcoming midterm projects. My partner and I decided that we are going to do our midterm project over habitats for children in grades 2-3. We determined which standards we could meet throughout the unit, along with topics we were going to cover, activities we could do for the lesson, and more. We then submitted our out line to Dr. E The next assignment was to explore a web link that Dr. E had provided for us on D2L. This title of this link was Integrating the Internet Wonders of Science. The link provided us with many different websites to explore pertaining to different areas of science. Certain websites provided us with information on science fairs such as the benefits of science fairs, what makes a good science fair topic, examples of science fair displays, and elementary, middle school, and high school science fair levels. Another link took us to a website titled, "The Adventures of Cyberbee". This website provided us with many different paper airplane links to click on, along with lessons we could use over paper airplane science. The Cyberbee website also took us to a web page that provided a ton of different science topics raning from different topics of possible study such as endangered species to the Cornell Theory Center Math and Science Gateway. All of the links were very interesting and great sites to bookmark for future use in our classrooms. One website i found particularly interesting was called Cells Alive which provided animations of how cells work! It was cool. A final website provided by the Cyberbee introduced us to incorporating a treasure hunt into science. Overall, I thought all of this activity was great. It helped us to explore the different ways in which we can integrate the Internet into our science activities. The websites provided prove that there are many great educational websites out there that can greatly benefit our future students. Overall, I found the websites to be extremely insightful and will definitely book mark these sites for future use!