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Butterflies and Other Organisms: How they help our gardens grow

Butterflies and Other Organisms: How they help our gardens grow. Menands School: Kim Bellmore Erin Jankowski Nancy Sposito. How do butterflies and other organisms help our gardens grow? What do butterflies and other organisms need to carry out their life cycle in our garden?.

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Butterflies and Other Organisms: How they help our gardens grow

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  1. Butterflies and Other Organisms: How they help our gardens grow Menands School: Kim Bellmore Erin Jankowski Nancy Sposito

  2. How do butterflies and other organisms help our gardens grow?What do butterflies and other organisms need to carry out their life cycle in our garden? The Essential Questions:

  3. How it all began: Evidence Based Practice

  4. Butterfly 1st Timers

  5. KWHL

  6. “Wondering”

  7. Research

  8. The Blog: www.teacherweb.com

  9. Menands Butterflies Debut in India

  10. The Senior Citizens

  11. The Finished Product

  12. Media Specialist’s Perspective • Opportunity to work with a new teacher and a seasoned teacher • Great starting point to begin moving toward inquiry for all • Learning opportunity to reflect on what works and what did not • Able to help teachers and students be more comfortable using technology as an extension of the classroom rather than in isolation • Loved seeing students APPLY their information seeking skills and strategies!

  13. Teachers’ Perspective

  14. Student Perspective/ Reflection • Students were very honest in their reflection as to what skills they felt they mastered, still needed help with, or felt they could not do. • At the end out of 36 students only 4 responded that they were not comfortable using the technology on their own • Students were surprised at how well they were able to find information on their own in books, using the databases, and on the web. • On sharing our projects with the Senior Citizens group one student said “I like having an audience, it makes me feel like my project was important… having to use the microphone was a little scary though.”

  15. Parent/ Grandparent Perspective • Great to see children independently locating information in books, on the web • Very impressed with how students used online databases at home • Blogging was a great way to follow along with what is happening in the classroom • Liked that students were presenting research to Senior Citizens-It gave children a sense that their research was important and had a purpose. • Seniors were very impressed with how easily the children used technology.

  16. Resources Images courtesy of amazon.com

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