Science Challenge

For our Science Challenge project we will be teaching basic cloud types. The teacher will define the basic cloud types, while showing students different pictures of each type. Once they've been introduced to different clouds, the students will organize and identify the cloud types, and make predictions of what types of weather conditions each cloud will produce, recording that in their journals. For our assessment we will use the 'Clouds' worksheet on Kidsperation to see if the students can create their own organized sheet of the various cloud types.

For our content we've decided to fulfill the Science Utah Core Standard #2 objective 1 for the 4th grade. Students will be able to identify the basic cloud types.

Our pedagogy will have the students observe different pictures of cloud types, organizing and identifying the clouds, and making predictions of what types of weather each cloud will produce. It allows students to have a visual to see what the types of clouds look like, they'll be able to interact with their journal by identifying clouds each day, and finally they get to put their input in with their weather predictions.

We will us Kidsperation for our technology because the 'clouds' worksheet not only enables the students to have interaction with identifying the cloud types, it will assess their knowledge of what they have learned.

Using Kidsperation adds in a multimodal representation to our teacher because it allows the student to interact on various levels of their knowledge.