ECDC Service Project Week 2

Wednesday was my first day to meet with the students in the ECDC. I was working with group 7 (Martiza and Xavier) which was assigned the Cicada. During our time in the classroom, I first had them show me their KWL chart from the first day and show me all of the research they had done outside of class time. They did a great job of gathering information and filling out the L column of their KWL. They also had a lot of success looking at pictures of cicadas on the internet and gleaning facts from those. For example, they learning that the cicadas have orange wings and red eyes from this.

After we filled out the entire KWL chart, we started our first blog post. The students were very excited to have their own personal blog and even typed most of the sentences themselves. We then attached their KWL chart to their blog which they thought was amazing. You can see our blog for group 7 here. When we were done with our first blog post, I explained to the children that we would be adding other posts as well and then showed them some voice threads and talked about how we were going to make our own that would be all about cicadas.

I have been in contact with my online partner (Ashlyn) and have discussed how we need to have a storyboard done by the end of Monday's meeting with the children. I plan go to the ECDC again on Monday but I know that this is a large task for only 45 minutes. Because of this, I plan to get as much of the storyboard done with the kids as I can and then pass the file along to Ashlyn so that she can work out all the kinks.

I am excited to meet with the kids again next week. They seem passionate about their research and I think it is fun for them to have us helping out. Hopefully Monday will go just as smoothly as Wednesday!