Today I completed the ThingLink Challenge! This was an assignment that went along with my Weather and Water Unit Plan for the 4th grade class at Bishop Dunn Elementary School. The lesson plan I created was based upon the 5E Inquiry Lesson. Click here to view my Hyperlink Doc Lesson Plan!
Students are to follow 5 steps:
Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate.
Explore: Students will review the Weather and Water Powerpoint. Then, in partners, read the article Water in Soil and pay attention to how water enters soil and important key terms like drainage, leaching, and field capacity. After reading this article, independently type out on Padlet what you learned from this article regarding water in soil, define the three key terms listed above, and write down one fact you didn’t know before reading this article.
Explain: In partners, watch the Importance of Water Video and turn and talk with your partner about what you learned and answer the following questions on the Google Docs. Then, Revisit the Weather and Water Powerpoint and focus on slides 37-39. These slides talk about plants in the four different seasons. Discussing with a partner, on an online Whiteboard, draw out each of the four seasons and how plants during that season would look like. You must include all four seasons and label each one.
Elaborate: Read this article on how water can affect a plants growth and reflect in a blog post about what you learned. You must include at least 2 paragraphs in your blog regarding this article. Then, watch this video on 5 things that plants need in order to survive. You and a partner will create a visual poster board about the 5 needs of plant survival and explain into depth why each of those needs are important to a plants growth. You should include pictures, drawings, facts, diagrams, etc. The poster board will be presented to the front of the class after completion.
Evaluate: Using all of the data, articles, videos, information, you collected throughout this Hyperlink Doc, you will write a short essay here on why water is so important to a plants survival, draw a diagram of the water cycle, and include at least 3 facts you learned from this experience. You will reference the following writing checklist. Reflect on this experience in your blogs as well!
This entire lesson is also all laid out on a website called ThingLink. A 360 degree picture of the sensory garden at Bishop Dunn was uploaded so students can take a look at how the sensory garden looks at all times. The following 5 steps that I created are provided in the picture. Different tabs, pictures, music, and attachments were included within my ThingLink project. Using this website was a little difficult to understand but turned out to be a hit! I love how you can include websites, videos, pictures, music and much more. Students simply hover over the picture and their task is directly underneath it. Simple, yet effective!
Click here to view my ThingLink Challenge lesson!
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