Fall+2014+Team+8

You will use the PBI process to develop your project.
====Be sure to design toward your rubrics for your 5 minute video and 8-10 page paper.==== Lauren Salisbury, Shuang Wei

===I. Design space for paper planning===
 * 1) **1. What are some potential compelling questions your team is considering?**
 * Can the weebly be used for elementary science? If so, how can we design it?
 * What other cool tools can be multiple-used with weebly?
 * What do we need to learn as a teacher?
 * How can the weebly promote the students’ creativity and critical thinking?
 * What other recourses can be also helpful besides weebly?
 * How can weebly help us prepare for the teaching plans?

Since we want to teach science, we follow the essential standards as the follow links.
 * 1) **2. What initial ideas do you have for your PBI?**
 * Learn to use some cool tools to make the class more interesting.
 * Get to know the foundations of the website.
 * Find out the target age group.
 * Choose proper materials and topics to teach.
 * Use weebly to prepare for lesson plans.
 * Give lessons to students and have feedback from the students.
 * Teach the students to use weebly to create their own website.
 * The students need to learn how to do research with computer.
 * Teaching and learning. Learning by doing.
 * Both the teachers and the students should have fun for the learning and creating new things.
 * 1) **3. What is your target age group?**
 * Elementary school, Grade 3-6.
 * 1) **4. Think about TPACK. What content will you focus on? What pedagogical approaches will you use? What technologies will you use?**
 * We will focus on the interactive with the pedagogical, knowledge and technology. Some time times they play individually, but sometimes they need to work as one. The pedagogical is the aim, and our students need to get that goal by learning knowledge, especially with the help of technology.
 * We will follow the NCES (North Carolina Essential Standards) and NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards). We’ll do some investigation, make hypothesis, do inquiry, interactive learning with discipline based, we’ll review the learnt contents and use pre-test to examine the levels of students and then make proper plans for teaching.
 * We will use weebly, story bird, toondoo, smart board, some equipment for experiments, for example, we can use microscopes or magnet and so on. Since we need to create the website, the computers or ipads will be in use. We also need the camera or cell phone to take the videos or we can use some recorders or speakers.
 * 1) **5. What specific Common Core or Essential Standards learning objectives will your PBI address?**
 * http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/docs/acre/standards/new-standards/science/3-5.pdf
 * Engaging students in inquiry based instruction.
 * The process of scientific inquiry, experimentation and technological design should not be taught nor tested in isolation of the core concepts drawn from physical science, earth science and life science.
 * Reinforce students the notion that "what" is known is inextricably tied to "how" it is known.
 * A well planned science curriculum provides opportunities for inquiry, experimentation and technological design.
 * Teachers, when teaching science, should provide opportunities for students to engage in "hands on/minds on" activities that are exemplars of scientific inquiry, experimentation and technological design.
 * As students progress through the grade levels, their strategies for finding solutions to questions improve as they gain experience conducting simple investigations and working in small groups.
 * Students are capable of asking questions and make predictions that can be tested.
 * During investigations, students must have opportunity to use more advanced tools such as calculators, computers, graduated cylinders, scales and meter sticks to gather data and extend their senses.
 * They must keep accurate records and run enough trials to be confident of their results to test a prediction.Students must always use appropriate safety procedures, including listening skills, when conducting simple investigations.
 * 1) **6. What is your timeline for implementing and completing your PBI?**
 * Get to know about the tools. 1-2weeks.
 * Meet with the class before fall break, and get familiar with the students. (Oct 1st –Oct 8th )
 * Prepare teaching plans for one week. We will give the lesson on Oct 10th if possible. We will take videos.
 * Get feedback from the teachers and students, and write reflection. Make the final video before Oct 16th.
 * 1) **7. What materials and resources do you need to be successful?**
 * There are several resources and materials we need.
 * Students (to receive the lessons and take part in our PBI)
 * Computers (to create website and search for information)
 * Camera (take pictures and video)
 * Smart board (to make it more interactive)
 * Website as weebly, story bird or toondoo (students need to learn)
 * Cell phone, skype or email (to get in touch with each other)

===II. Design space for video documentary development=== >
 * Get to know about the tools. 1-2weeks.
 * Meet with the class before fall break, and get familiar with the students. (Oct 1st –Oct 8th )
 * Prepare teaching plans for one week. We will give the lesson on Oct 10th if possible. We will take videos.
 * Get feedback from the teachers and students, and write reflection. Make the final video before Oct 16th.
 * Matter; Properties and Change.
 *  I will need to facilitate instruction that incorporates content associated with the statements of matter (solid, liquid, gas, molecular, water cycle, properties, and change). In each day of study, we’ll learn discipline based, to plan and do some experiments.
 * Or by making hypothesis, test out the different statement of water.
 * We will do the investigation about the molecular of the structure.
 * Take video when they create their own website.
 * Give an interview about how they feel when they create their own website.
 * Do they think the technology makes learning more interesting.