WiKiBURT

Tonight I finished my WiKiBURT site on butterflies and moths. I taught 4th grade last year, and will be teaching it again this year. I know that lifecycles must be covered during the school year, while technology standards must be met as well. A web quest is a good way to allow students to navigate the Internet while learning information relevant to class. In short, this allows the teacher to teach two standards simultaneously (killing two birds with one stone). If there is not an hour allotted for science each day, then the lesson could be taught during whole group, and the web quest could be done as a center or at some scheduled computer time in class. An example of this would be scheduling each set of partners 20 minutes each afternoon. If the teacher uses 3 computers for this activity, and allows partners to work on this duirng the science block for 20 minutes, and the science block was 40 minutes long, 6 sets of partners (12 students) would complete this assignment each day. This assignment could be done through inner-class scheduling over the span of 2-3 school days.