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TPACK for our virtual tour. The state content i am going to be using is for third grade standard i objective 2 indicator a: describe the major world ecosystems. they are going to be looking up the ecosystems on google earth. I have set up a virtual tour that will take them through the United States where they are going to be able to view the different ecosystems and understand and see why they are different. They will also be able to look up why it is that way and what makes it so. this is good for the kids because they stay engaged in the learning process and they are able to really see and understand the differences in the different ecosystems.

virtual tour plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. The first location they are going to visit is the Great Basin Desert.	In the Great Basin they are going to find look at pictures and see what is living and growing there.	The students are going to be looking at a Wikipedia entry and picture of the Great Basin
2. Then they are going to move to the Rocky Mountain	here they are going to be viewing the mt. s and viewing them in 3d	They will be using different tools in google earth to get a better view and a clearer picture of what the rocky Mts are
3. After that they are going to move on to the tropics of Hawaii	They will compare what they see here of the ecosystem and how it differs from the two previous places.	They will up load a picture of the tropics and view National Geographic entry.
4. Their final destination will be in the Unita Forest.	What is the different vegetation growing in the forest verses the desert.	Here they are going to view the forest in 3D to really get a sense of what it looks like.
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Breakfast in Bed Story

TPACK AS ALWAYS

so for our storybook project we are focusing on poetry. this is good for all grade grade levels. all children need to learn and be exposed to poetry. it is good for them it hear it, read it, and speak it. it helps them with fluency, vocabulary, reading proficiency, art skills, and performance. the technology that we will be using is story board. the students would pick a poem that they find interesting they will read it a couple of times and figure out how they want to present it artistically. once they do this they will write a storyboard which is part of the drafting process. then they will come up with the actual art to express the meaning of the poem and use story board to put it in perfect form. in this form they will read the poem with the art they have made and record themselves.

Story time

My story board layout. just you wait for the real deal

TPACK QUESTIONS

the content we are focusing on in our science project is us learning how to create heat with friction and how lubricating the object will keep the heat down. in order to explore this scientific content are we are using the pedagogical tool of exploring and experimenting instead of just being told what will happen. it is hands on and can be more interesting. and this is how real scientist work. they are almost always dealing with hand on experiments and not just being told what is going to happen. it helps kids discover like scientists discover. we used the probes in our experiment to get an accurate reading and and the accurate reading shows of the graph and gives the kids a visual of what they are doing.