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Term 3 contemporary tool: IWB and digital cameras (slowmation)

Term 3 focus in my classroom: I would like to utilise my students' prior knowledge for them to generate their own focus questions which they are then able to use to design and develop their own small group projects. Term 3 units are: 1. Cells/Classification; 2. Solids, Liquids and Gases, and; 3. Light and Sound

Why I have decided to use this CT? Students will be able to demonstrate the development of their understanding of scientific concepts.

Expectations of CT usage: i) utilise the contemporary tools in a more meaningful way ii) students to carefully consider and recognise **why** they are using ICT for a particular purpose

Comparison of CT to my 'traditional' teaching techniques: I use the IWB sporadically for its specific purpose/s but regularly to project images/movies/examples

How use of the CT will benefit me? Add to my professional capacity

How use of the CT will benefit my students? i) Able to demonstrate their understanding in a number of different ways. ii) Celebrate the things that students know about ICT that we (teachers) do not.


 * Reflections**

__28.7.09__ I am a little apprehensive about using the IWB as a tool for some of the students to plan their slowmation project because I've not done this before. I am prepared for an initial period of 'sandpit' time where the students 'explore' the IWB but am hopeful that they will view its use in a different light as their slowmation project develops. I'm excited about discovering students' prior knowledge and misconceptions about the unit on 'Solids, Liquids and Gases' that we will be focusing on for this project and then, hopefully, clarifying these misconceptions. Students being able to make connections between scientific concepts and real world applications will be another outcome for this unit.


 * ~ Unit description: ||
 * **Classroom activity** || **Contemporary Tool (CT)** || **Rationale for using the CT for the activity** ||

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 * 1) What is the purpose of the unit you are focussing on in term 2?
 * 2) What is 'contemporary' about this unit of learning? How does it engage students in the contemporary world? Why is it important… for our students, our school?
 * 3) How will it engage students **with** the contemporary world?
 * 1) Develop understandings for the unit and include on the page.
 * 2) Begin to think about what might be evidence of understandings.
 * 3) What learning sequence are you thinking of implementing?