Mrs. Stuckey's class just finished their first tech class since December 14 and it seems most of them "forgot" they had tech homework to finish. Only 3 of them had the blog post finished that they were required to do, so most of them had some catching up to do.
Today we continued working on the Research and Investigation step of the Design Process. Before Christmas they were supposed to have completed a blog post with a Design Brief and a blog post with a list of what they already knew about composters and lids and a list of questions of what they needed to find out. Today, after giving them 10 minutes to finish up the post of what they already knew and what they needed to find out, we started researching the answers to the questions they had come up with. It was emphasized that they needed to include the web address (URL) of the website on which they found the answers. They were reminded that Google must not be one of those websites. Google leads you to the information, but doesn't contain the information itself.
Below is a copy of the blog post I left for them summarizing today's class. Remember, you can ask them to log in to our Kidblog site at any time. You will only be able to read my posts and the posts of the student who's logged in.
Take care!
From the 7S Kidblog site:
As of the end of this class you should have 2 completed blog posts and one in progress. You should have a Design Brief in one post and a list of what you already know about lids and a list of questions of what you need to find out in the second post. A third post with the answers to the questions you came up with and the websites where you found the information should be started. We will finish this third blog post next class.
Here is the list of questions we came up with as a class:
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