Just keeping everyone updated...

I am going into the hospital Tuesday night for my son to be born. This weeks assignments do not contain any group work, and hopefully I'll be back to regular work next week. But I though I would let everyone know.

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Our students will use the Yankee Springs Recreational area as a basis for their biome projects. The class will make several trips to collect data in the park including temperature, rainfall measurements, type of vegetation and animal life. The students will then find a biome different from their own to communicate with a pen pal to compare and contrast the two different locations.

lesson plan

Hey all,
Next week we are asked to create a lesson plan that has something to do with our topic. My understanding is it does not have to do with our big project of biomes, just our subject of weather. I was interested in doing a lesson on thunderstorms, including safety, how they form and why. I think I will aim towards first or second grade, depending on where my research leads me.  Again, my understanding is that we all are to do our own lesson plans, in taskstream, but we are not allowed to do a lesson on the same topic. Hopefully I will get mine completed closer to the beginning of the week.

Side note, I have an ultrasound on tuesday where they will decide if I need to be induced and hopefully when. So bare with me the next few weeks, my baby is making his entrance soon!

Virtual Penpals and Google Maps assignment

This assignment is due Oct 4, and I don't want to have to wait until last minute to figure things out. I was thinking since our big project is biomes, we could make a project that involves another group of students from a different geographic location to help out. Originally I was thinking someplace vastly different than Michigan like a country in Africa since they are hot and dry, or someplace in Russia since its snowy and cold. But there might be language barriers there. So then I was thinking maybe we could do northern Alaska or Arizona, since they have vastly different climate and biomes than us. I think if we create a project that students collect information about their environment for say a month like average precipitation, plantlife, wildlife, temperature and such, and then we can compare their information to our information where the students we have would do the same thing. We could determine the classification of the biomes and how weather plays a role in it. Also the map could be of the location where the activities took place, so say somewhere near Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, or somewhere in michigan.

I only have 20 days left until my due date so I am trying to get ahead on some things so once my son is here I dont fall behind. Hopefully you guys can try to keep up too!

updated concept map

I updated the concept map to actually be about biomes. No one else seemed to want to take the reigns so hopefully you all approve. I really dont want to lose points because of working in a team.

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