Week 2 Project Status

So far, Loni and I have finalized the standards, content and ISTE, our project will cover, we've begun discussing our year-long technology use plan, and Loni has created and refined the teacher rubric that will be used for the technology portion of the project. A student-friendly rubric still needs to be created, along with a rubric for the writing portion of the project.

The 2nd Grade California Content Standards this Life Cycles project will cover are:

ELA: Writing Strategies 1.1 and 1.4, Writing Conventions 1.6, and Listening and Speaking 1.5, 1.6, 1.9, and 2.2.
[Students will be reading expository text (Science text and other resources) prior to and during the project to learn about the life cycles of different insects and animals, but reading will not be the only source that will provide the background learning necessary for students to competently write about a chosen life cycle for this project. Students will acquire knowledge about life cycles from hands-on science activities, videos, read alouds, etc. also. Therefore, the reading content standards are not explicitly required to complete this project proficiently.]

Science: Life Sciences 2.b and Investigation and Experimentation 4.d

Having looked over the ISTE Standards and the Performance Indicators for Students Grades PK-2, this project covers all the ISTE Standards for 2nd Grade students.

We will be teaching the students to use the following technology tools for this project: the internet, Garageband, iPhoto, and iMovie HD.

The final project will be a student created movie using iMovie HD about the life cycle of either a specific insect or animal. The students will narrate their written life cycle paragraph script using Garageband and use images that depict each stage of the life cycle. These images will be a combination of pictures made by the the student and photographs acquired via the internet and then saved to iPhoto. Each movie will be made with students working in pairs and will include two different life cycles as a result. The final movies will be posted to their teacher's website for sharing with and viewing by others.