After my student brought up his concern that our reminder notes might be illegal, he and his peers decided that the best way to find out would be to ask a police officer. So, this week I bought some Skype credit and on Tuesday, we called our local RCMP office. I had contemplated calling ahead […]
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After our students decided that making reminder notes would improve reusable bag use, they developed criteria for what a good reminder note would include. As students gave suggestions, Mrs. Caldwell shared her screen and recorded students’ ideas. To help our young readers, we also included pictures. Near the end of the call, one of my
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After the OLCS Kindergartens investigated reusable and plastic bag use in their community, their class shared the results with our class. We were surprised that so many people used plastic bags, since we all have lots of reusable ones! The problem seemed to be that people forget their bags. Next, our classes joined via Video
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After playing Once Upon a Monster, our classes completed this sorting activity collaboratively. It was helpful to have Mrs. Caldwell’s Junior and Senior Kindergarten students to tell us about composting, since that is something that many of my students were unfamiliar with. Using Bridgit, we took turns sorting the items into the correct bins. Our sort
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In grade 1 today, 25 of us started the day by examining our lunches for reusable containers such as food containers, water/juice bottles and reusable lunch kits. Some students had 6 or 7 reusable containers and no/very little garbage! As a class, we had a total of 82 reusable items. We created a pictograph to
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What an exciting day in the HES Grade 1 room! One of our division technicians visited our room today to set up an Xbox Kinect. We only had a short time at the end of the day to try it out, but we are REALLY excited to use the XBox in our classroom. To get
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Students from both classrooms voted on topics they’d like to focus on and we began creating our awareness materials on Thursday! Here are the posters that the Grade 1s created: So far, they have been shared online using Twitter (TwitPic), Pinterest and this blog. Please help us reach more people by sharing these
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During our next digital lesson, our classes decided on some ways to teach others about sustainability. Students from both classrooms suggested ideas and the Grade 1s in my room acted as recorders, printing the ideas on our interactive whiteboard. Here is what we came up with:
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For our digital team teaching lessons, our classes connect using conferencing software, social media and online sharing. We recently began exploring the topic of sustainability using a lesson entitled Our Environment from the Microsoft Partners in Learning Innovative Teacher Toolkit at http://www.innovativeteachertoolkit.com/lessons.html As a part of this activating lesson, our Grade 1 class in Hamiota
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This blog is intended to track the progress of our educational project Digital Team Teaching: Kinecting Classrooms for Sustainability. The project is led by Mrs. Devon Caldwell at Oak Lake Community School and Mrs. Leah Obach at Hamiota Elementary School. Follow our project as we explore the Xbox Kinect and other technologies for collaborative learning.
