Grade
Level: Second Content
Area: Social
Studies Overview The
second graders in Mrs. Segedy's class have been using a
website that had information about Native Americans. This
website was designed for this project so that the students
could fill out worksheets. When the worksheets are complete
students will be summaizing the information by using
Inspiration and creating concept maps. They will present the
information on their tribe to the rest of the class
Keywords
for categorizing this project: Native
Americans, Inspiration, Concept Maps Webquest: A
web quest was designed specifially for this project to aid
in the research that the students will be doing to complete
the project. Each student was given a different tribe to
reseach. The Web Quest is very detailed and easy to navigate
for this particular grade level. The address to the web
quest is www.bsu.edu/web/skim2/burris_project.htm Worksheet: Mrs.
Segedy had a worksheet made up to help the kids take notes.
The work sheet had simple questions for the children that
served as directions on the information that Mrs. Segedy
wanted them to present in their project. Learning
Inspiration: The
students have had one previous experience with Inspiraton
that took place last year. This program gives the students
and opportunity to create concept maps for their
presentations. Many things about using Inspiration had to be
gone over with the students. Once the information was
refeshed in their minds they used the program with
ease. Creating
Concept Maps: The
children will create concept maps from the information that
they researched using the web quest. They can turn the
balloons into pictures or just add pictures throught the
map. They also add notes to the balloons with the
information they have gathered. Making the concept maps have
helped the students to organize the information that they
have researched. All of the concepts maps created were
unique in their own way. The students had great ideas and
their work reflected the amount of time that they had put
into the project. Presenting
Concept Maps: At
the end of the project, the students will be presenting
their projects to the whole class. The students are using
the projector and showing their concept maps on the big
screen. During their presentations they are explaining what
they have done and showing the class the notes that they
added in to their concept maps. They are also taking
questions from both the teacher and the students