week 7

My voicethread will demonstrate to other elementary teachers and the administrators in a school district how the program Kidspiration can be used for a science project for kindergarteners. It will demonstrate how it can be fun and educational for the kindergarteners to learn about the seasons. I will specifically use the weather and the seasons activity in Kidspiration. This activity helps children organize what kind of weather each season has according to the state that they live in. This helps the children identify what seasons are and what each season is like. It has pictures on the left-hand side, which the children can drag the pictures of different types of weather to a square on the right-hand side, labled with the corresponding season.

The content that I will focus on for my science activity is the kindergarten Standard 3, objective 1 part a. This is learning to identify the seasons and to represent them by drawing pictures of the seasons.

I will be using 2 pedagogies, one is observing and the other is classifying. Both are a good fit with the content, because the children will have to observe and then classify types of weather conditions that coordinate with each season.

The technology I'll be using is Kidspiration. I think that this is a good fit with the content and the pedagogy, because of a few reasons. First, the students can go into the Science activities section and choose the "seasons" activity. This activity has different types of weather pictures and the students put the pictures into each group (each group is a different season.) This way, the students are able to observe the types of weather, and also classify them by putting them into the different seasons.