Drafting+-+Storyboard

Drafting/Storyboard

Prezi link: [] Partners: Garra Ballinger and Cynthia MacDonald

Audience: Teachers Relevance : To increase teacher awareness of a new inquiry process which truly promotes student inquiry and wonder. Inquiry helps students learn 21st century skills and to become lifelong learners. If students are taught how to learn and find information, then they will be able to teach themselves anything they want when they leave the school system. This Inquiry Process utilizes students prior knowledge and understandings and in turn allows students to question and Wonder on a much higher level. Persuasion: Prezi: Inquiry is more engaging and interesting than the traditional research process, there are many resources (technology and web 2.0 tools) that can make the entire process from start to finish, more exciting and relevant to the students. It will result in deeper learning and understanding for the students. The Prezi will have a Pirate theme which emphasizes WONDER, one of Barbara Stripling's most imporant parts of the Inquiry Model. The idea of continuous questioning througout the entire process will be reiterated. Beginning: Question teachers to entice them with strategies and skills the Stripling Model helps to incorporate. examples: Student owndership of learning, enhanced learning based on prior knowledge, provide learning experiences that address a variety of learning styles meeting the needs of more students. Middle: Inquiry process steps, how it actually works and examples End: Why is inquiry important? Collaboration Culminate the Prezi with a final slide that empahsizes the goal of Stripling, increasing the WONDER, and instrucitng and guiding students to on their learning, as well as become lifelong learners. S 3. Investigate 4. Construct 5. Express 6. Reflect the Stripling Model sets forth. Begin discussion of WONDER and how important it is for children totake part in this activity. Students need to learn HOW to learn  We want students to become lifelong learners   With Web 2.0 tools, inquiry can be much more engaging than a traditional research project   Can be used across the curriculum  ||
 * = = What? = ||= = Images/Text = ||= = SOUND = ||= = Relevance = ||
 * = Introduce Model/Hook Audience with definitions of Inquiry.   WONDER QUOTE-Socrates   Stripling Inquiry Model  ||=  Pirate ship and treasure chest images.Taxigedo Creation showing:    Process:   1. Connect   2. Wonder
 * Active Discovery (Stripling 50)  Examples   Break down the process   Collaborate with the campus librarian   A cyclical process  ||= N/A ||= Images and pirate theme enhance the sense of WONDER that

Sample Projects: Inform intended audience of teachers that this Inquiry Process utilizes and enhances students' prior knowledge and understandings. Teachers can use the Stripling Model to assess student learning as well as extend and continue the learning with the wonders and questions students have about topics of study. __**Math:**__ Shapes Around the World: For this Inquiry Based project students will use their prior knowledge of basic shapes and develop questions in regards to where in the world these kinds of shapes are found. Teacher will read aloud the book titled, "The Greedy Triangle" to supplement students questions and help with beginning research. Students will then investigate at their homes, in their schools, and by looking in magazines for different shapes that they see. Students will share their findings with their small group and work together to construct a project to share. Students can create a Prezi showing what shapes they found in the three different places and include pictures and examples with their information. Students will narrate their presentation as an added form of expression. After all groups have shared, students will refelct by choosing a blackline shape of their choice and creating something real. Example: Circle-waffle, wheel on a bicycle, the sun, speaker on a radio, hamburger bun, quarter, etc... The teacher will video each child with their drawing and make a culminating digital book using Animoto or Windows Movie Maker. **__Social Studies:__** Biography Museum: Students will utilize their prior knowledge of Biographies and biographical texts and research an influential person from the past or present. Students will begin by questioning, what truly makes a person influential and setting guidelines for themselves to follow as they choose their individual. As an exmple, use Martin Luther King Jr., whom the students just learned about in Social Studies. Have students list contributions and reasons why he is a good candidate to present to others. Upon choosing individuals students will research information about their individual. Students will use the information to: draw a portrait, create a timeline using Teachnology, create a web description using Kidspiration, create a Wordle with attributes the person possesses, find a quote using Brainy Quote, and locate and print several copy right free images from web sources. Students will compile the research onto a presentation board. They will gather clothing items for a costume and dress as their individual person. They will portray their person and share a short memorized speech about their person with their biography board for parents and other students for the school. The teacher will record the presentations and create a video timeline using Animoto of each person in timline order.