Sunday, April 21, 2013

DONE!

Weather Monitoring

Here is our website! Just wanted to post this on the blog! I think it looks wonderful! 

Thanks so much Katie for being such a great partner! 

-Rebecca

Final concept map



Here is team weather monitoring's final concept map! We decided to add a celebration bubble to the map. We want to incorporate having the students visit a news station to meet a real meteorologist! Also, we want include having students create their own forecast with all the information that they learned from this project!

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Hey Katie, 
just posting about the new original item. On parts of a weather station there were only two parts that didnt have a lesson plan or digital story with it. Anemometer and wind vane. We said whoever does their first gets to pick which one they wanted. I did mine on why wind vanes are important. 
See you on Sunday at 1:30! 
---- did you want to meet at the library or bhc?

-Rebecca

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Meeting at 1:30 next sunday to work on website!
Here's the URL to our YouTube podcast...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XlEsaLYtLo&feature=youtu.be
Today Katie and I are meeting at the Bernhard Center on campus to work on the website some more.
Rebecca - check out the website background..Connie helped me figure out how to give the site a theme. Let me know what you think!

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Hey Rebecca, check out this link to use for our weather station page. It's a link to a site where you can see how a homemade weather station is made. We could use it as one of our new ideas...
http://www.se7en.org.za/2011/08/26/se7en-build-a-weather-station-for-weather-watching%E2%80%A6

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Rebecca & I are at the Bernhard Center working on our team website for Weather Watchers!! Just a reminder, we each need to create one new item and find 3 additional websites total.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Planning to meet to work on our website this weekend. We'll also need to review our points earned for our storyboard and move forward on that.

Thursday, March 28, 2013

At Panera right now working on our Storyboard project with Katie.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Hi Rebecca! For our digital story, I'm going to do something on clouds. Any ideas for yourself? It was good to run into you outside of math class the other day!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Revised Concept Map

Here is the revised concept map for our project. We decided to further explain what the students will learn with each individual part of a weather station.
Rebecca, as far as our data collection info for this lesson goes, just a reminder that we chose for you to collect data on air pressure, wind speed/direction, and temperature while I collect data on cloud cover, humidity, and precipitation. Good luck.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Hey Rebecca, great job with the podcast - we did pretty well!

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Podcast

On Thursday Katie and I met at Panera to discuss the podcast as well as future projects. For the podcast we decided that we would split up the work the following way:
Katie will talk about why we are using PBL and what have we done so far.
Rebecca will talk about where we are heading
Then Katie will send Rebecca her part of the podcast, Rebecca will combine them together and add the music into the podcast (thinking of rain music since we are weather related!), then will send it back to Katie for any changes or concerns. 

Go team Weather Monitoring!

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Hey guys, sorry I have not posted anything, I've had some computer problems this week.
When will be a good time for us to meet up this week? I think for us to do the podcast, we should meet up and do it.
If you guys are available on this Sunday, that would work for me!

Friday, February 22, 2013

Has everyone decided what portion of the podcast you want to do? I'm going to explore it this weekend to see what it's all about and how difficult it may or may not be.
Also, can we possibly set a date to meet & talk about this project? I'm afraid that things are going to move pretty quickly here over the next few weeks & we need to make sure we've got our ducks in a row and are on the same page. Are you guys going away spring break week? I would be available that monday, tues, or wednesday to meet up. If you're going to be gone, then I could meet sometime next week, tuesday or thursday morning. Just let me know!

Katie

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Hi ladies, it's midweek and we don't really need to collaborate this week on the project because our assignment is not part of our project directly. However, we still need to show some communication to get our points for the week. So I thought we could discuss about our podcast due next week. We all have to take a different portion of the assignment to talk about. Our audience is our student's parents - the podcast is for them, to update them on our project. If you don't mind, I would be willing to discus why we are choosing to do project based learning and the benefits of it. What do you guys think would be valuable to share?

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Important Question: In last week's project, we indicated that we were going to gear this toward's 5th graders  due to the complexity of it all. There wasn't a time at the beginning of the project where we had to review GLCE's - we thought it didn't necessarily matter for this particular project. However, as I go into Taskstream & look up the GLCE's, first grade is where all the weather and weather measurement standards are. Third grade talks about weather & concepts, but not in detail like 1st grade. 5th grade has NOTHING that would work for clouds, like I chose. Now, I could change my topic, but if we need this to match to a GLCE, we might need to reconsider our overall plans (esp w/ predicting weather) for the other students. What thoughts do you guys have? Cuz we all need to move forward w/ this and make sure our lesson is geared for the right age students. Thanks!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Hi Guys! I'm going to choose to have the students research about clouds and probably create a cloud chart for my lesson plan this week. Any thoughts as to what you might cover?

Monday, February 4, 2013

Module #5 Lesson Plan

Great job everyone on getting all this work done before midnight!! I am really happy that were able to work on this project as efficiently as we have been! I know Katie mentioned in another post about this week's assignment but we can make a new post for it! 

So we have to use Taskstream to create a Lesson Plan from our "Big Project" Each of us have to do a different lesson plan topic so while looking at the concept map, you can chose which part of the weather station you want and comment on this post which one you plan on using. This way we don't all have making thermometers!

Also, Connie emailed us back about the concept map and said its good to go! 

Go team Weather Monitoring!!

-Rebecca

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Part B - Google Map


View Larger Map The route that we chose as a group is from South Haven, MI to Kalamazoo, MI. We want to show our Epals in Sydney factors in which our weather is affected in Kalamazoo. We decided to use the route from South Haven to Kalamazoo because of Lake Michigan’s lake effect. This causes our weather patterns, especially in the winter, to change in variations because of the lake’s cold water causes the colder air to create more snow that travels towards Kalamazoo. Our Epals in Sydney would also show us a route that has a factor that affects their weather such as mountains, bodies of water, or terrain.

Part A - ePal Project

Virtual Pen Pals

Updated Concept Map

Alright here is the newly updated concept map for our Weather Station Project!

Concept Map updated

This is the updated version of the concept map.... what do you guys think of it? The original is still saved on the bubbl.us site. Taking in what Connie said in the email, we got to think of a project that can be done in the classroom and that is ongoing. 

If you guys both like it or want something to change, let me know. I can email it tonight to Connie and CC you guys!

-Rebecca

Friday, February 1, 2013

This week's assignment

Hey everyone!

Katie and I were able to meet today at Panera, after a while of trying to find who each other was. We were able to brainstorm a lot of what we are doing for our project. Our "Big Project" will be building a Weather Station. I am going to change the concept map and use weatherunderground.com to see what a weather station entails. Katie has created the google doc for the assingment this week and she has invited us to that document. Katie and I have discussed the answers to the assignment but Kathyrn, feel free to add your input! 
I will be doing the google map. We searched for weather stations in kalamazoo and then we searched for ones in South Haven. We want the route to show how Lake Effect travels to us in Kalamazoo. We would have our pen pals do the same by them showing us an area that affects their weather as well.
Kathyrn, if you are able to upload the questions answered on the google doc onto the blog, that would be great!

Katie-- I haven't received the email invitation to the google doc in my email so if you could send it again to Rebecca.m.kowalski@wmich.edu that would be great! 


panera

I feel that we re on a blind date... i am at a table by the window

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

This week's project

Hi ladies,

If we are able to meet up on friday we need to come with ideas about this week's assignment. We need to figure out how to incorporate virtual penpals and do something w/ a google map. I think once we narrow down our ideas about our big project and the work our students will do leading up to that, we will have a clearer idea of how these two things can be incorporated. If anyone has thoughts before friday, please post so we can brainstorm!

Friday, January 25, 2013

Hi guys, here are the sites I'll be looking at for our project due this sunday:

http://www.discoverysciencelearning.com/weather_station/intro_weather_station.html

http://www.education.noaa.gov/Weather_and_Atmosphere/

urbanext.illinois.edu/treehouse

Are you still interested in meeting up to discuss our project so we can clarify our concept map? I'm avail monday morning or tuesday anytime. Does that work for either of you?

Katie


Sunday, January 20, 2013

Here is the updated concept map!
This is what I have come up with for the concept map. I was not sure about our big project but it is saved on the website bubbl.us

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

The beginning!

Hey there! Accepted the invitation obviously! So does that mean I'm an admin? I have no idea about anything to do with blogs (fun).

Do we have any ideas going for the concept map due this Sunday? I'm still not entirely sure I understand what it is we do for it...