more Stage 3 Student Research Work

The images below represent the continued work of the students in their classrooms. Referring back to their initial storyboards and research questions, they revised and edited their product storyboard to plan their audio/visual sequences for their final movie. They focused on the 'big idea' questions to develop a movie them related to biodiversity and a persuasive depiction of a scientific issue. 

Stage 3 Student Research Work

Below are images of the students back at school working in the Library lab. With Media Services personnel on hand, the students learned to import and upload their images. They were also taught how to use Audacity, a software for audio capture, to which they uploaded their audio files from the iPods. 

Stage 2 Student Research Work

Below are images of the student field trip. After touring the different exhibits related to Biodiversity and enjoying the 'Action Earth' presentation, the students had the occasion to interview the scientists. We were fortunate to have both a French-speaking and an English-speaking scientist available to us. As individual interview teams asked their questions, others sat and readied their equipment for their turn with the scientist. 

Stage 1 Student Research work

Below are a few images to represent early research work with the students. 

Both classes, the Grade 5/6 English group and the Grade 6 French Immersion group, explored the 'QMatrix' as an organizational tool to generate questions for our study topic, Biodiversity. Small groups of 4-5 students developed both simple and 'big idea' questions to create a list of questions that they might ask of the scientists at the Science Centre. 

As the range of questions began to grow, we discussed strategies for organizing the sequence of questions in order to best prepare for the interviews. When the students regrouped for interview trios, they compiled questions that would suit their particular interests for learning about Biodiversity issues. From the class questions, then, they developed a sequence of questions for each interview team.