jodie howcroft hwdsb the great pacific garbage patch
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- 1. June 2015 Teacher: Jodie Howcroft School: Millgrove Elementary School Grade: 2/3 Social Studies Artifact Description: In this inquiry, student explored and investigated about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
- 2. Grade 2/3 Inquiry "Yet as I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic.
- 3. How can we protect ourselves and our environment?
- 4. our first provocation was a Genius Hour an hour of exploration around forces , air and water
- 5. our grade 3s decided to focus on forces of nature and our grade 2s wanted to research air and water pollution as a class we decided our audience would be the other grade 2 and 3 classes in the school students wanted to invite their families to see their work too students wrote at least 5 questions they had on their topic and researched to find the answers students could choose any product many chose to do posters
- 6. researching safe search, search terms, finding important information taking point form notes asking rich questions media - poster design presentation skills persuasive letter writing point of view
- 7. Students brought in these demonstrations that they had worked on at home. Listening to the conversations in class, I could tell the students were very interested in air and water pollution as well as ways to help the air and water.
- 8. I searched online and came across this news clip Good Morning America and showed it to the class. My students were instantly passionate about this issue. There was a lot of energy in the room as they jumped in to action, planning as a group what they were going to do. They divided up into groups according to their strengths and got started.
- 9. we asked questions and recorded our learning together
- 10. this time, students worked in groups groups were based on similar interests and complementary skills we made a looks like, sounds like, feels like chart together
- 11. Inventions
- 12. Song Slideshow
- 13. Graphs, Announcements, Videos Activists, World Changers
- 14. Graphs, Announcements, Videos Activists, World Changers
- 15. one of our parents is an artist the parent volunteered to come in and do a special art project with the class to showcase how to reuse plastic bags she worked with the students in small groups
- 16. Click to listen to the learning from the students perspective.