Final Session

We got together and researched the pupa and the adult stages of the butterfly and moth. Then we got straight to our activity. I had her make a compare and contrast diagram that shows the differences and similarities of the two insects. I had bought some life cycle toys that show the different stages of the butterfly and the moths. She then drew a life cycle chart and placed the insects in the correct order to show that the butterflies and the moths have the same life cycle stages its just that they look different and during the pupa stages they are called different things like the butterfly is called a chrysalis and the moth is a cocoon.

She had fun making the little activities, she especially liked putting the life cycle together on the board. When we had met a few meetings ago i had showed and explained to her a voicethread. She had never seen or herd of a voicethread before so i showed her other examples on the web then i showed her my mini lesson movie on my blog. She liked how it looked but didn't like the fact that she would have to record her voice. She said she doesn't like the way she sounds on the recording.  I finally talked her into talking and recording herself, i told her not to worry that her friends didn't have to see it if she didn't want them to. After picking out the right pictures and saving them to power point i showed her how to upload and record your own voice. She wanted to help come up with the script on what to say for the voicethread. So i let her give the information on each slide and she  really liked how it came out. She told me she wanted to share it with her class and i told her thats the reason we created her own blog so that she would be able to share it with her whole class and whom ever she wanted to. She enjoyed this project very much, and i enjoyed working with her as well. I never realized how much technology is such a great and amazing tool to use for teaching. I hope to incorporate voicethread and other technology tools in my classroom when i am teaching.

Service Project Session 2

On our second meeting we talked about the larva stage of the butterfly and moth. This time i tried to use more of the inquiry based learning on her. I asked her how does she normally research something that she doesn't know. She told me that she would normally go to the library at her school and look for a book on what she is researching. I told her that was really good, the library is an amazing place to do research but i told her for this project we would be using more technology. I told her to use google and to type whatever it is she is researching. So she did, i sat next to her on the computer and we googled life cycle of a butterfly larva stage, and life cycle of a moth larva stage.


Also when we would go to a website that she didn't know how to use, i would tell her to click on a tool and see what it does. I did show her where the help bar is so that she could try and figure out what the tools mean. Sometimes it was kind of tough whenever she would ask a question like where do i look now, because i wanted to just tell her and let her know what to do next but i had turn around and ask her a question like if we don't know how to use the website where do we go, and she would say the help menu. After awhile she found a couple of really great informational websites about the larva stage of the butterfly and moth. This is pretty neat seeing her research on her own. She would view one website then take a few notes that she thought she would need to know for later on, then go view another website.