The rest of the lesson is
teaching them that animals (including humans) are not able to make their own
food, but plants are; and that plants produce food by utilizing energy from the
sun. I teach them that our bodies need
this energy to live and grow and play. With this understanding students can
begin to understand that energy passes from one living creature to another and
this passing of energy represents what we call the food chain. So, now the
students know that they did eat sunshine today!
One thing that worked well in putting together the voice thread was mainly the interaction with the students; they not only enjoyed the lesson, but they thought it was fun to be videotaped, and three or four of them got to have their voices recorded and they thought that was fun as well.
Questions for my peers:
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Any suggestions on how best to apply voice
thread technology as a teaching tool in the general classroom setting?
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Do you think voice thread is more useful for one
grade level over another, i.e. in the lower elementary grades k-3, or the
higher elementary grades of 4-6?
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Do you think voice thread would be a good
collaborative activity, for example, all of the same grade levels (or even
mixed grade levels) in one school doing a project together?
I have thoroughly enjoyed being a PST at Zavala Elementary
School. I learned a lot from my CT and
especially from my second graders; I am going to miss them!!
I agree it was hard to take time on the voice thread with everything else we had going on. But just like you stated it wasn't that hard after all. I like how you taught this lesson. I would have trouble thinking of ideas!
ReplyDeleteTrish, I think that VoiceThread could be used for ANY grade level. From what I've heard by our peers, all the grade levels were having fun with it. Also, it could be fun doing a lesson on VoiceThread with the WHOLE second grade class (class as in every, single second grade student at Zavala). You could make it into little game or something! Love your VoiceThread by the way :)
ReplyDeleteI really liked your voicethread Trish. My favorite part was how you introduced the lesson with food to introduce your lesson. I am glad that it worked out well for you and that your students loved it.
DeleteI also really liked how you used food with your lesson, that is a great why to get their attention right away! I believe that VoiceThread could be used for any grade level as long as it is implemented in the right way, for my kindergarten students I needed to keep it simple and straight to the point.
ReplyDeleteGood voicethread overall, Trish.
ReplyDeleteHi Trish,
ReplyDeleteYou had some good questions and I absolutely love your voicethread! I think that it might be easier as far as classroom management goes, to implement voicethread with the older students. What do you think?
Thank you, Chrissy. Yea, that's what I'm thinking...older students. Take care! Trish
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