At panera right now with Katie! Great meeting!!

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!

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

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?

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!

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?

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