Podcast Posted

I just wanted to let you guys know that I added in the music and uploaded the podcast. I do have to say it turned out really good.

Great job guys!





I don't know if you'll be able to get to the attachment on WebCT so I posted it here:

To post the audio to the blog, I converted it to video. If you'd like a copy of the mp3 to keep for yourself, just let me know what email to send it to.

What order would you guys want to do the website?

my lesson are
Over this semester we have talked about different topics about kalamazoo. We talked about what the Students knew about kalamazoo and what they wanted to find out. The students did this by looking up the Local history of kalamazoo and the historical places it has to offer, students are now aware of their surroundings in kalamazoo and the rich history it has to offer along with different townships that are near and around kalamazoo.

main idea of lessons

Here's what my lessons have been on so you can talk about them in the podcast.

Naming of Kalamazoo-

The students researched the history of the naming of Kalamazoo and two other cities of their choice. After finding that information they used that research to make up a story about how a city that they named was named.

To incorporate math, the students took a poll of one class in each grade to find out the favorite former name of Kalamazoo. They took this data and made charts and graphs out of the data they collected.

what order do you wan the 2nd lesson plan to be in?

Podcast

This is what each person will discuss in the podcast.

First part-- Laura
Second Part--Ashley
Third Part-- Pam

If we each want to bring our little section of what our lessons are next time for Ashley and our script so we can get it recorder next class!

So i guess i wrote the wrong thing for the 2nd lesson, That i will be doing a survey of what townships this kids live in with in Kalamazoo

Podcast Outline/Notes

Our Role: Teachers Our Audience: Parents

PBL
• What is it? Why is it beneficial?
• Podcasts: what are they, why are they good?
• Examples of PBL projects from textbooks


What we’ve done & What we chose
• Local History: Kalamazoo & MI
• Research & construct of MI history
• Collect data on classes’ favorite fruits & veggies
• Survey students: opinion of best name for Kzoo
• Writing: research naming & creating a historical story of the naming of their fictional town
• Survey: what township you live in
• Research historic places in Kzoo


What could be done/needs to be done & Big Bang project
1. Final Project:
o Historical tourism brochure “Travel through time”
o Invitations to open-house (for community & families)
o Make posters of facts
o Business-like, put tickets in invitations and provide a way to “buy” tickets at the door (Answer MI riddles to get ticket?)





Bold words are concepts from the book

Lesson Plan 2

My second lesson plan will have the children survey their class and three other classes to see which fruits and vegetables grown in MI are most popular.

Concept Map 2nd Draft

For lesson plan 2 mine will be about how many times they visited a certain place. How do you guys want ot revise the web that we have.

Lesson plan #2

Does it matter what order we do our lessons in. Does the first person have to be the one that teaches the students how to use excel as well as do their data collection? I have an idea about asking the students about their favorite former name for kalamazoo, i.e. is it Kalamazoo, Bronson or some of the other former names.

Lesson Plan Orders

Hey, for Lesson Plan 1, what did you say for lesson context? What order do we want to have our lessons? I forgot to finish this section when we turned in our first ones.

For Lesson Plan 2, what order are we going to do ours?