Flock of Researchers

Grade level: third/ fourth

Basic Outline

1. Draw a penguin - teacher scans for presentation
2. Paint a penguin - students saves for presentation
3. Find a penguin photo on Pics4Learning - include citation in presentation
4. KWL - What defines a bird? Post results on the classroom page.
   
5. Is a penguin a bird?
6. Is a duckbill platypus a bird? What makes you think it is? What makes you think it isn't?
   
7. Draw or paint a duckbill platypus
   
8. What is your state and national bird?
9. How is a penguin the same and different from the state or national bird? Create in Kidspiration, Kid Pix, or draw and be scanned for presentation.
   
10. Draw or paint  state bird - for presentation
11. Find a state or national bird on Pics4Learning - include citation for presentation
12. Create presentation
1. Page 1 - title "Birds by First Name on Date
2. Page 2 - A penguin is a bird because... (drawn image)
   
3. Page 3 - A penguin can live (locations)... (painted image)
   
4. Page 4 - This penguin is (four details)... (photo)
   
5. Page 5 - A duckbill platypus looks like a bird because... (student created image)
6. Page 6 - A duckbill platypus does not look like a bird because... (Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike photo)
7. Page 7 - The ______ is our state bird (photo)
   
8. Page 8 - It is like a penguin because... (painted image)
   
9. Page 9 - It is different from our state bird because (Venn diagram)
   
10. Page 10 - My favorite bird is ______ because _____ (image drawn, painted, photo with citation)
11. Page 11 - Citations
13. Upload presentations to Slideboom with notes or another sharing site where students can show images and either type of record their presentation notes for response from others such as Voicethread to individual student page.
14. View partner's presentation. Comment on
1. What details did your partner add that were the same as yours?
2. What details did your partner add that were different from yours?
3. How close did they come to drawing or painting the penguin and the state/ national bird?
4. Did the partner have a citation for each photo?
5. Ask your partner a question about the birds in their project.
6. Answer your partner's question about the birds in your project.
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Partner Collaboration

• One child/ one partner
• Some schools may choose to have several students create one presentations. In that case, match one presentation to another
• A lot of pre-work will be done independently at an individual school. It may take time for the partner school to respond.
• Teachers who partner up their students are responsible to communicate with each other and keep each other appraised about timelines, school holidays, etc.
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