Final Touches

Hey group,
Hope everyone is doing okay on the website, so far so good.
I am still thinking of another original resource to include. Let me know if you dislike or think I should change anything I have added so far!
Thanks.

Website Discussion

Hey group,
Hope everyone had a great weekend, how does meeting at 5 on Thursday work for you guys? I think it would help with collaborating and what not. Let me know and we can make suggestions continuously on our blog as well.
Michelle

Website

Hey group, I fixed our storyboard and re-submitted it.  I also made a group gmail account for are website. The username is mjrweathermonior@gmail.com and I will email you the password. Rachel

Story board Corrections

Hey group,
 Happy Easter, I made some corrections on our story board if you want to check out the google doc, we need to resubmit it. However, I am still confused on what Professor Peterson means by saying we need to include our web eval URL's. Where do they go? Thanks.

Storyboard

Are storyboard is submitted- Rachel

Michelle that sounds like a good idea, how should we set up the storyboard. Do we maybe want to do it on google documents/drive so we can all help with it?

Weather Story Board

Hey group,
I am pretty confused on this whole story board. I do not know the exact expectations based off of the rubric. However, I believe we need to think of a main project. I was thinking maybe have the students pick one state in the United States and create a week long weather report explaining how they could measure or learn about the weather they found for each day. What are your guys thoughts?
Michelle

Digital Story

Hey group,
I am going to make a digital story about weather across the united states, it will be introducing interesting facts about weather in different areas. Hope everyone has a good week and good luck movie making.

Rachel

New Lesson Idea

Hey group,

I actually decided to change my idea for my lesson plan two.

I am going to have my students track the weather for a week straight using one of the tools we learned about, and then creating a summary report they will present and talk about the increases and decreases in the weather for that week, changes, etc.

Taskstream Lesson 2

Hey group, Hope you had a good spring break. For this weeks assignment we have to do our second taskstream lesson.  I know we talked about the topics for these lessons but I can't remember what we discussed. Can someone help me out so I can start writing mine?
Rachel

Concept Map Part B

Happy Spring Break!

Hey Group, Hope you have a great spring break. Enjoy the week off! Rachel

Podcast Summary

Hey group,
We got a 100% on our collaborative podcast! We did a great job communicating and working together!!! Nice job to all- Enjoy spring break!

Hey group, Hope your having a good week. Michelle I read your post and you are asking great questions but I am a little confused on the project. I was wondering if you guys might be able to meet sometime this week to work on it together?
Rachel

PodCast

Hey group,
Hope everyone is having a good week. So we have two weeks to work on our collaborative pod casts. What role would everyone like to take? One person will be responsible for putting it together and adding music. The purpose is for PBL and to explain to our parents what we are doing. What are everyone's thoughts?
Michelle

Chapter 5

Hey group,
Hope everyone had a great week. I really enjoyed this weeks chapter; it made me think outside of the box a bit and consider all the different types of resources I could use in my classroom. Technology is extremely useful when implemented effectively. I also learned alot after writing my paper about Fair Use.

Hey Group! Hope everyone's week is off to a good start. For our lesson plan this week it looks like we each need to write a lesson plan about a different part of the concept map. I was thinking I would write my lessons on types of weather to report. If anyone else wanted to cover this area let me know and i can write a lesson for a different area of the plan.

Rachel

Virtual Pen Pal Document

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AN5pbeQMUznkNUFnSnB7-Q9NWBIPlwNSBoshK9GBpVA/edit?usp=sharing

Google Map

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This map will be used by students as a point of reference.  This will help students have a better understanding of where there pen-pals are located.  Students will also be able to compare and contrast the location of the two areas as well as the geographic features that affect the weather.  Students will be able to compare these two locations in relationship to the equator, major bodies of water and mountain ranges.   Students may use this map for cross-curricular learning.  Students could write about the similarities and differences of the two locations (Writing), read about Mexico’s weather (Reading), find the difference in temperature and precipitation (Math), learn about the culture and history of Mexico (Social Studies), and study vegetation and types of animals native to the area (Science).

Virtual Pen Pals, Google Maps

Hey group,
This weeks assignment is a bit different. Rachel created our google document for our virtual penpals. The questions provided on the document and in our rubric will help us aid in what we want to talk about. I was thinking something along the lines of doing our weekly weather report for a third grade classroom and comparing it to the weather region of Mexico. This would help our students understand that during winter we are receiving snow days and flurries while they experience sunlight and high heat temperatures. Just an idea. We can discuss more when we meet tomorrow. See you guys then!

Hey group,
I just created a google document for our Virtual Penpals project.  I added both of you and you should recieve an email about this. If you dont get then email or can't edit or respond let me kow.
Rachel

New Concept Map

Website Evaluations

Hey group,
So this week we need to start evaluating different websites we find online using the given rubric on Elearning. We each have to find three different ones so lets make sure we post which websites we are going to be using so that we do not have any repeats. I want to browse for some websites that go more in depth about the different types of weather and why weather monitoring and elements  of weather are so important to learn about. We have to submit all three of our website evaluations to one person in the group and they have to add all of our documents as one and submit it for our group. I am interested to find out what websites you think will be beneficial. Talk to you guys soon.

Concept Map

Welcome!

Hi group!


I'm new to this whole blog idea but it's pretty neat. I was wondering if you have any ideas for our group project?

Rachel