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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As part of our efforts to explore sustainable living, our students have become very interested in “picking up garbage”. Every recess, some eager boys and girls return to the classroom with pieces of garbage that they proudly dispose of. But what about reducing the amount of litter that occurs in the first place? School lunches
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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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Hi everyone! My name is Devon Caldwell, and I’m excited to start posting about some of our digital team teaching activities on this new blog, Kinecting Classrooms. Leah Obach and I have been teaching partners for three years now, having managed to overcome a fairly large obstacle–geographic separation! While Leah teaches Grade 1 in Hamiota,
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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.
