The Curriculum Context of this Unit
My students were very excited about this project. They enthusiastically looked forward to every class. The design of this project incorporated several curriculum areas; science, technology, language arts and arts.
The grade four science curriculum includes a unit on predicting weather. The project included all required areas of the predicting weather unit. The unit was extended by having students look at weather charts from all over the world, research the weather from the past and become a weather forecaster for their city.
Technology requirements in our project extended beyond curriculum expectations for grade four in our school unit. Students learned how to post information into a blog, link their forecast to their blog and place a weather sticker script into their blog.
Language Arts skills were needed throughout the project. The students made use of research skills, dictionary skills, grammatical and sentence structure skills, as well as reading and processing skills.
Student’s artistic abilities were used in a number of ways. They were necessary to be creative while interpreting types of weather for their mural pieces. Each snowflake needed to be unique, requiring understanding of how snowflakes form and develop and then artistically interpreting and displaying this information. Font, colour and arrangement on their blog pages were left to their creative imaginations.
The grade four science curriculum includes a unit on predicting weather. The project included all required areas of the predicting weather unit. The unit was extended by having students look at weather charts from all over the world, research the weather from the past and become a weather forecaster for their city.
Technology requirements in our project extended beyond curriculum expectations for grade four in our school unit. Students learned how to post information into a blog, link their forecast to their blog and place a weather sticker script into their blog.
Language Arts skills were needed throughout the project. The students made use of research skills, dictionary skills, grammatical and sentence structure skills, as well as reading and processing skills.
Student’s artistic abilities were used in a number of ways. They were necessary to be creative while interpreting types of weather for their mural pieces. Each snowflake needed to be unique, requiring understanding of how snowflakes form and develop and then artistically interpreting and displaying this information. Font, colour and arrangement on their blog pages were left to their creative imaginations.