Water Habitats

Duration: 2 minutes and 44 seconds

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Instructional

Producer: Sunnyside Elementary School & iEARN

Director: Kristi Rennebohm Franz

Views: 114 (1 embedded)

Posted by: egragert on Feb 24, 2010

Elementary teacher Kristi Rennebohm Franz in Washington State engages her students in an iEARN collaborative project that takes them to the town's pond to explore the science of mallard ducks and interact with students in Australia and other countries about what they discover.

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Habitat Project
Welcome to our Sunnyside pond water habitat project.
All school year we study our local pond water habitat
at the Sunnyside park near our school.
The ducks are putting their yellow noses in the water.
Why do you think they might be doing that?
The ducks could be putting their beaks in the water
to catch the water insects
They could be
One of the first projects we had an idea to go online with
was taking our environmental science study of a local pond habitat
where children were making observations
and take what that piece was that we were already doing in the classroom
And take that into the next step of using that as
the content of communications.
We're just going to check to see what the ph is...
With the goal of hoping that as they communicated about their local habitat
They would find connections and diversities between this local habitat
and other water habitats in different locations around the world.
We can send our pond writing documents as e-mail messages to other schools around the world.
who are studying water habitats with us.
My over-arching goal for that curriculum
is that they start to develop an understanding
that waterways and water systems throughout the world have a connectivity to them.
We have art work from Lara Primary,
the school in Australia.
The have this sanctuary for endangered birds.
They're writing to an audience of their peers
with a purpose
about something they know really well and want to share.
This year there are lots of mallard ducks swimming in the big pond.
Sometimes we have seen 40 ducks and sometimes
we have seen 200.
Their peers value it and they get an immediate response back that says
Thank you for telling me about the pond.
Thank you for telling us about your mallard ducks.
We don't have mallard ducks here.
So anything that's on the screen
from our classroom is embedded in real life,
developmentally appropriate,
hands-on real world experiences that the children have.
And I think the important thing to remember
is that it's not a matter of the technology
replacing those experiences in the classroom.
It's a matter of using that technology
to publish, communicate
share, work with the ideas of the things
that children
should be doing in first and second grade
The real, real human interaction.
They're using the technology to understand that better.

Water Habitats

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