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.
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