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.