Tuesday, November 16, 2010

WebQuest

Ok, so here it goes... i was thinking about community, and that got me thinking about the metro parks.

Name That Ecosystem!!
intro: looking around lake county you can see, trees, deer, and a varity of animals. this gets me thinking, why not try and classify these animals, and plants?


Tasks:
you and a partner will go to the parks, and pick 5 different plants to look at and collect samples from, and 3 animals to classify. As this goes on you will turning in a jurnal of your visits of a minimum of 30 miniutes every day. of what you see, what you smell, and what you can feel. just be carefull of the poison oak! the final project will be a choice of a diagram, or a video from the point of view from a plant or animal specific to the parks.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Place of learning

Learning in one place limits the possiblilties for the mind to expand.
making it more of an open place to learn makes for a more open and enriched experience.

i feel we should make it more applicable if we teach students in the actual community, take them to the park to learn about the comminties history.

take learning to the streets, make it a cultural and intelectual learning experience.

local means to me, as the location you grew up in, and the sense of "home" you feel. within a community.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010