This week’s
major assignment is about taking an existing lesson and incorporating it into a
“social networking” or web 2.0 tool. I
will take a lab that I had previously done in Science 10 and convert it to an
assignment using Google Classroom for the Science 30 class I will be teaching
in the fall.
According
to the Science 30 Program of Study, my students will have to:
- conduct
investigations into relationships among observable variables and use a broad
range of tools and techniques to gather and record data and information
- measure resting heart rate and blood pressure
and determine the effects of exercise on both factors
I will have my students design and type of a lab on the
effects of exercise on heart rate and blood pressure. In the past, I made copies of my Scientific
method outline and then shared it with groups of students. My folders are pretty messy as a result of
this. In the fall I will use Google
Classroom as my social networking site to send a copy to each student in
an organized Google drive folder that is created for that class. They will have to complete and type up the
lab including creating appropriate graphs.
This is a picture of what the past assignment template looked like.
The
link for this assignment is "Parts of an Investigation (Scientific Method)."
Here
is a picture of “creating an assignment” in Google Classroom for my heart rate
lab.
Google
Classroom can also be used as a social networking site. You can post assignments and comments. Students can comment back to you if they have
questions. It is a closed site.
The new
part of this assignment (that ties to web 2.0) is that I will have my students
create a word cloud of their lab. I will
create a single blank Google Document that each student can edit to paste their
word cloud (which is created through a Google Chrome “free” app) into. I will ask them to compare their lab word
cloud to another group’s word cloud identifying similarities and
differences. The picture below is an
example of a word cloud from a former Science 10’s complete lab on “Exercise
and heart rate.” I am thinking I might
just have them do word clouds of their analysis, conclusion, and extension
section.
Overall, I
think my students will find this assignment challenging and engaging. They are definitely going to gain technology
and web 2.0 skills through this process.
I would mark the assignment the following way:
Marking Key
Question / Problem / Purpose /1
Hypothesis / Prediction
/2
Variables /3
Materials /2
Procedure /4
Observations / Evidence /4
Analysis- Graph & Statement /6
Conclusion /3
Application
/1
Word Cloud Evaluation
/4
Total /30
References
Drive Word
Cloud: Retrieved from https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/drive-word-cloud/ielgnnbehadnmkcgpgnpmelggibcogdb
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