Wilder Issues In Science Shares Our Nature

The students in my Wilder Issues in Science Primetime Class wanted to share the nature that we have surrounding our middle and high schools. Here is a small sample of what they created. This video is a collection of three projects. All pictures were taken by personal cameras or supplied ipod touches. Students emailed me those photos and videos and I placed all pictures/videos into a file that every device could access. We did address copyright laws and using only a percentage of a song...still can improve on that one! Another thing that would be really nice is if Students could upload their individual creations to you tube as a place to host a high definition film.

AKAT

All kids all the time! Here are some pictures of the group working together. Transforming our old mini MGM into this has been a fantastic change. It will be interesting to see how this process evolves and how much the entire staff buys in.

Peer Editing Day

It was a good day today of students peer editing their project proposals. Ready to move on to the research phase of the project!

Collaborize Classroom Formative Assessment

Recently we tried a website called "Collaborize Classroom" in which students were asked to answer a question and combine their answer with a vote for selections they agreed with. It was a good first try and I recommend we continue to use this program!

Start of the We Can Change The World Challenge

Today we began the "We Can Change The World Challenge"

First Trial of Screen Chomp App

Here is a student sample of a screen chomp they made using the ipad. This was one option students had on the structured choice review for the upcoming basic ecology test.

Owl Pellets to Food Webs

Here is a great video that Bob Wandel made that documents how we used the owl pellets to gain understanding of food webs!

Owl Pellet Project 2011 from bob wandel on Vimeo.