Introducing...The Weather WebQuest!

Hello Parents/Guardians!

This post is to inform you of the exciting educational journey our room is going to be taking! As part of our upcoming weather unit, students will be engaging in a WebQuest created by me. You may be asking yourself, just what is a WebQuest? A Webquest is an interactive learning opportunity that students complete using technology. A WebQuest has a major goal to accomplish to demonstrate student learning. Along the way students follow the process outlined on the page to learn information and create their final project. Here is a great video explaining WebQuests, followed by some sites with examples!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rel5qOPvU
http://webquest.org/
http://questgarden.com/

Our WebQuest will take students on a journey learning about how different weather patterns are formed, how we can predict weather, and how weather can affect our world. The final project will be for students to create their own weather forecasts! Here is the link to our WebQuest:

https://sites.google.com/site/edu533webquestlacroix/

Please talk to your students about what they learned and did each day as we work on our WebQuests. This will help cement their learning, and may even teach you some new information!

As always thanks so much for all the support you give your student and our classroom!
Ms. LaCroix

The Educational Value of Animoto

Make your own slideshow at Animoto.

Animoto is an easy to use website for anyone interested in making their own videos. This video was an example of introducing a project in a different way, but students could easily use it to create a weather forecast for their final project. It would also be a great way to preview different types of weather seen around the world.

Educational Value of Wordle

To create this Wordle, I copied several different forecasts for the week from various weather sites online and pasted them into the text section on the Wordle website.

The point of this Wordle is to have students look for the most common weather words that show up in forecasts and start familiarizing the vocabulary. With the Wordle, students can pull words they don't know to find the meaning, or discuss how a chance (one of our larger words) has several different meanings depending on its use. This would be a great activity to start whole group, and continue at home with parents!