Bridging Hands- On Labs to TEKS using Online Resources Diane Kahanek Village Elementary Georgetown, Tx

Diane Kahanek  4 th grade teacher for 13 years  Technology Facilitator for 5 years  Mother of 3 children  Passionate about science, technology and Texas history.  Advocate for special needs children

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Who Are You?  Elementary?  Middle School?  Administrators?  Who has children?  Technology Nerds?

Technology—not just for research On our campus, we have found that the more technology students use, the easier they learn. Online resources are not just for research… the internet engages students and when students are engaged, they learn—right under our noses. We use Learning.com for resources, and we use SKY to organize our activities and ideas into one neat place.

Science is not a Subject, but a way of life…  Collect samples—all of the time. Scientist are pack rats. We can’t help it.  Connect everything with your unit—past future and present.  Model good questioning and let your students hear you question—then, they will begin questioning.  Science Board: School-wide, we practice the Scientific Process each month. This month is Recycling.

Don’t give them the answers  Think about your questioning strategies, or as I like to say, Your answering strategies.  Answer their question with a question.  Science thinkers must solve their own problems. The person standing at the front of the room is not the expert.  Guide them to find the answers to their questions.

Simple Machines Unit  We use Learning.com products to enhance our curriculum. It has great resources for instruction, activities, interactive lessons, simulations, virtual journals and quizzes. Plus you can customize their units with your own ideas.  And, it’s all aligned with the TEKS  So this is where this Simple Machine Unit begins.

What Simple Machines has taught us  When we first started teaching simple machines, we planned and gathered materials and created learning stations. We had prepared stations for each simple machine to proved that each simple machine made work easier.  Then, we found out, that when students were presented with this task, they could come up with their own activities. We had planned harder, but not smarter. Involve and engage students.

Sharing  Students worked together to create an activity, then they shared with the class and demonstrated! How powerful.

AHA! Science  Aha!Science is a supplemental online curriculum for grades 3-5, and a resource for middle school science foundational learning. It offers teachers a digital resource to engage and motivate students with science, and to build the foundation for success in later years.

Web 2.0 Tools  Learning.com, AHA!Science Learning.com  Teacher Tube Teacher Tube  You Tube Click Embed and Uncheck Related Videos You Tube  Presentations in Google Docs are Embeddable Presentations in Google Docs are Embeddable Collaborate and Share>Publish/Embed  Forms in Google Docs are Embeddable Forms in Google Docs are Embeddable  SlideShare a collection of slideshows that people have created and can be embedded or downloaded. SlideShare  Wall Wisher Do More>Embed Wall Wisher  Glogster.edu My Dashboard Scroll down to the bottom and look for the code Glogster.edu  Prezi Prezi  Blabberize Blabberize  Wall Wisher Do More>Embed Animoto Video Toolbox>Embed Wall Wisher Animoto dies#watershed  Voicethread Menu>Embed ders_study_plants_in_collaboration_with_Pakistani_st udents VOKI I've use the Wordpress format Large>Get Code Voicethread ders_study_plants_in_collaboration_with_Pakistani_st udents VOKI   o NeoK12 This site has many videos and games. Many of the videos are You Tube Videos that can be embedded (without the You Tube Site). NeoK12  PBS Video Hover over the video and Click embed PBS Video o TAGXEDO word clouds TAGXEDO  NASA Videos Are embeddable NASA Videos

Teacher Created Examples! Learning.com’s Sky is a way to collect all of the resources for a classroom journal— directions, links to websites, templates, video, and graphics. You can put it all together with SKY. What a great tool for creating a 21 st century classroom. All customized by YOU!

Start Simple 1. Let’s say you want your students to go to a website, but then you want them to answer some questions or respond. Sky is perfect for that. 2. Now, you want your students to watch a video on Teacher Tube, or School Tube. 3. Upload a document for your students to complete. 4. Have students create a spreadsheet, presentation or document and have them send it back to you—Sky!

Embed Content 1. Create a video on Teacher Tube and upload it, etc. 2. Or create a video of a screencast and embed that.

1. Create a Voki and embed that into your journal or activity. 2. Create a Glogster and embed that into your journal or activity. Get Creative!

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