The Tech Savvy Teacher
Since science is a way of knowing, a process for gaining knowledge and understanding of the natural world, as the newly converted third grade Tech Savvy Teacher, I would like to answer the most important TPACK questions:
1. What is the content you are focusing on in your science lesson?
In my particular lesson I am focusing on:
Standard 2: Understanding that organisms depend on living and
non-living things within their environment.
Objective 1: Classifying living and non-living things in their
environment.
a. Identifying characteristics of living things
b. Identifying characteristics of non-living things
2. What is the pedagogy you are using and why is it a goof fit with
the content?
Since the students can't gain an understanding of science by reading textbooks or by lectures with the help of technology the students are going to be able to gain knowledge by observing , questioning, exploring, and comparing living and non-living things.
3. What is the technology you will be using and why is it a good fit
with the content and pedagogy?
I will be using two QX5 computer microscopes, a laptop, and the smart board. I think that this technology is a perfect fit for the lesson because all the students, at the same time, will be able to observe very closely the difference between living and non-living things.
In this lesson the students will be able to go outside and bring one object that they think is a non-living and another object that they think is living. They will be able to observe what is the difference between living ad non-living things. The students will be able to make a short video of their living objects. I will be able to publish them in my blog and the students can access them and observe as many times as they want to. This is important because this will prepare them to understand how living and non-living things interact in an environment. At the end of the lesson they will be able to list the characteristics of living and non-living things.
Shrimp eggs
Honeybee wing
Wool
Ant
The pictures look way cool! I can only tell what the last picture is though. What are all the other ones of? Were you able to actually do it with a class? I am sure children would love to play with that microscope and even see things that are alive and moving through the microscope!
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