Lesson: This
concept map would be used as part of my science instruction. It would be spread out amongst multiple days
to allow for students to focus on one season at a time. I chose to focus on images and videos as they
are most appropriate for my Kindergarten students.
Learning Objective:
After this lesson, students will be able to describe the 4 seasons and their
weather.
Collaboration: Collaboration
is an important part to learning. I
believe collaboration allows for students to support each other in problem
solving. It also allows for students
with varying achievement levels to help each other. I can assign higher students with lower
students in order to help support them.
However, it is important to reinforce that everyone must contribute in
order to make it effective.
Application: For
this assignment, I focused on the Segment Principle. I want my students to focus on one season at
a time in order to not be overwhelmed with all of the information. Therefore, I made four different branches on
my Concept Map in order to do so.
Reflection: After reading more about collaboration this
week, I plan to brainstorm more ways to use technology as a tool for collaboration. I feel it is difficult to do with
Kindergarten aged students and would be much easier with students in a higher
grade.
References:
Equinox and the Seasons [Image]. (n.d). Retrieved From: http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15148
Fall [Image]. (n.d). Retrieved From: http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15148
Rain and Sun [Image]. (n.d). Retrieved From: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weather-sun-clouds-rain.svg
Snowflake [Image]. (n.d). Retrieved From: https://pixabay.com/en/photos/snowflake/?image_type=vector
Sun [Image]. (n.d). Retrieved From: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/view-image.php?image=130961&picture=sun
Concept Map
Concept Map
Hello Ellen,
ReplyDeleteI had chosen a similar topic, focusing on weather and all of its components. Unfortunately, I was not able to view your map on Coggle using your link. It could be that you did not make it public. You can make it public by clicking on the icon of the screen with an up arrow.
I do agree that it is harder to come up with programs that facilitate collaboration in Kindergarten as a former kindergarten teacher. Often their skills are very minimal since they are just beginning to learn. However, I feel that you could introduce it at a very basic level with using iPad games together. Then you could move onto something like Coggle with established roles. That way each person does exactly what they know they need to do,and it's not too overwhelming for them.