WEB QUEST

Here is the link to my web quest that I created. I based it off of the second grade standard 2, objective 2, indicator a: explain why families, schools, and communities have rules. This is the link to my webquest:

http://ia.usu.edu/viewproject.php?project=ia:9961

Digital Cameras!

I really liked being able to go take pictures using the digital cameras. I liked using the comic life program and I think it is an easy to use program. I think there are many ways that you can use cameras in your classroom. Like this assignment with geometry, I think the students could also have an assignment to take pictures of insects, animals, plants, weather/clouds, and different colors or buildings. I think that in the elementary classroom it would be important to have the children paired off and to set boundary limits so that no one wandered off or got lost. I liked working collaboratively in pairs and I think it would be a good experience for the students. You could also check out the cameras and allow the students to take the cameras home to take pictures of their home environment. They could make a presentation about their life and share it with the rest of the class.
I liked using photoshop and I think it has a lot of interesting tools that are fun to use but I think that program is a little too complex for the younger grades.

educational software

I want to teach any of the younger grades of kindergarten to third grade. One of the 3rd grade standards is understanding the relationship between the force applied to an object and the resulting motion of the object. I really liked exploring on phunland.com. I feel that with some help and assistance, the students would be able to explore this property on this program. i feel that this program's content is very appropriate, but it is not as easy to use. This program is not one that is very easy to figure out right off, it is not self explanatory. Although it is not easy to use at first, with help I feel the students could explore this program.
The mars quest link was also very interesting. I liked how the pictures were very realistic, and gave you a good opportunity to explore. It was fun and easy to use. This program would be helpful in teaching the 3rd grade science standard 1 of understanding the shape of Earth and the moon are spherical and how they rotate.