Technology and Writing

Our lessons have been getting better and better, and I definitely feel a lot more confident in front of the class! Last week our lesson was about how soil supports plant life, and students planted seeds in local soil along with another sample of solid (either sand, clay, or humus).  The two process skills we were focusing on were integrating technology and writing in science.  For technology, we watched a BrainPop video with the class.  We had watched BrainPop with them before so we knew this would be a hit.   We also included technology for the students to share their responses of their observations on recording worksheets.  we used a doc cam and selected a few students to display their work and explain it to the class.  They seems ed very excited to do this!  For writing we had students write predictions in their science journals.  We also had them write out in worlds, descriptions of their observations.  They usually just draw picture of what they see, but this time we had them accompany their drawings with handwritten captions.   Im really pleased as the progress of the students knowledge as wee as our progress as science teachers!