Ocean Bloggers Still Making A Difference in the Classroom!

Mar 15, 2010

Dear Kevin Zelnio,

Hello,
This is Ms. M. We are so happy and grateful to have the journals and flip books.

The students are learning to research the coral reefs and marine animals. They have learned to set up two pages on the computer, one for the word document and the other for the coral reef and marine animal research. I taught them how to copy, paste, and save their work to a flash drive. Then they learned to print the saved research from the flash drive.

The students had to complete the research outlined in the table of contents for each the coral reef and the marine animal. For the Coral and Animals, they needed to provide information about the polyp, habitat, diet, colonies, reproduction, a did you know, how endangered, conservation, anatomy, vocabulary, and web sources in the table of contents and body of the flip books.

To initiate the student’s interest in the project we completed a packet of worksheets. Such as a word search on the ‘Plants and Animals of the Coral Reefs’, Word Unscramble of the ‘Animals of the Sea’, a ‘Name That Coral’ fill in the blank, an ‘Animal Research Sheet’, a ‘Compare and Contrast of the Coral and the Animal’, and a ‘KWL’. The worksheet packet was completed after the trip to the Shedd Aquarium.

This has been a very successful project. I am very grateful for your contributions!

With gratitude,
Ms. M.