Jodie howcroft hwdsb the great pacific garbage patch
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June 2015 Teacher: Jodie Howcroft School: Millgrove Elementary School Grade: 2/3 Social Studies Artifact Description: In this inquiry, student explored and investigated about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Jodie howcroft hwdsb the great pacific garbage patch
1. June 2015 Teacher: Jodie Howcroft School: Millgrove
Elementary School Grade: 2/3 Social Studies Artifact Description:
In this inquiry, student explored and investigated about the Great
Pacific Garbage Patch.
2. Grade 2/3 Inquiry "Yet as I gazed from the deck at the
surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was
confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of
plastic.
3. How can we protect ourselves and our environment?
4. our first provocation was a Genius Hour an hour of
exploration around forces , air and water
5. our grade 3s decided to focus on forces of nature and our
grade 2s wanted to research air and water pollution as a class we
decided our audience would be the other grade 2 and 3 classes in
the school students wanted to invite their families to see their
work too students wrote at least 5 questions they had on their
topic and researched to find the answers students could choose any
product many chose to do posters
6. researching safe search, search terms, finding important
information taking point form notes asking rich questions media -
poster design presentation skills persuasive letter writing point
of view
7. Students brought in these demonstrations that they had
worked on at home. Listening to the conversations in class, I could
tell the students were very interested in air and water pollution
as well as ways to help the air and water.
8. I searched online and came across this news clip Good
Morning America and showed it to the class. My students were
instantly passionate about this issue. There was a lot of energy in
the room as they jumped in to action, planning as a group what they
were going to do. They divided up into groups according to their
strengths and got started.
9. we asked questions and recorded our learning together
10. this time, students worked in groups groups were based on
similar interests and complementary skills we made a looks like,
sounds like, feels like chart together
11. Inventions
12. Song Slideshow
13. Graphs, Announcements, Videos Activists, World
Changers
14. Graphs, Announcements, Videos Activists, World
Changers
15. one of our parents is an artist the parent volunteered to
come in and do a special art project with the class to showcase how
to reuse plastic bags she worked with the students in small
groups
16. Click to listen to the learning from the students
perspective.