Prior to the field trip, the classroom teacher will move the students into Stage 2 of the Research Process, to consider the sources of information that they'll be gathering. The students will learn about the differences between primary sources and secondary sources of information. (See the related link in the blog menu.) Their interviews of the scientists will be their work with primary sources. Their involvement in the auditorium program and their visit to the exhibits will be their work with secondary sources.
The field trip to the Ontario Science Centre will involve a 45 minute program in the auditorium, focused interviews with related scientists and a visit to related exhibits. All the while, the trios will be recording interviews and their own oral commentary, capturing images of the exhibits and written exhibit descriptions and recording the sequence of both on the storyboard. The teachers, Teacher-Librarian, Instructional Leader and Media Services instructor will all be in attendance to supervise and support their work.
Following the day of the field trip, the students will work in the lab to create a slide show. The Media Services instructor will help them to upload the audio recordings and the visual images. He will then teach them how to use the slide show software. With his support and that of the teachers and Instructional Leader, the students will create their slide shows and burn them to a CD. This step represents Stage3 & 4 of the Research Process, as they organize the information gathered in order to create a final product of their learning.
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I thought the camera and the I-pod and the story board all worked out fine beacause there were only two of us and we took turns!
It was fun!!!!!
Hayden K.
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