Google Earth Virtual Tour

 Here is the link to my Virtual Tour.  This tour is based on plate tectonics and the students will investigate sea-floor spreading, transform boundaries, convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and hot spot volcanoes. The student will visit the Mid-ocean ridge, San Andreas Fault, and the Hawaiian Islands. To enhance the students learning I will assign them to do the same thing I did, but i will show them how to download the USGS overlay for google maps where it shows where all plate boundaries are and the most recent earthquakes. I will then have them create a tour showing where each type of boundary is located around the word and use the overlay to determin which boundary produces the most earthquakes.

Wiki-Lesson Post

Here is a link to my WIKI lesson post. Click Here

Screencasting

I just have to say screen casting is awesome. I used Jing to create this screen cast for my class to use as a study tool. This screen cast is about Punnett squares and the difference between genotype and phenotype. I posted the link to my school webpage so the students can use it if they needed it to study for the upcoming test on Wednesday. Next unit I am going to have the students create a screen cast themselves covering different parts of the earth science unit and then post those to my website as a study tool for the test. Screen casting is also useful for students who are absent so they can get the material they missed in class.

Podcast

Here is a podcast that I created for my science class. This is a sample as to what I would expect my students to do. My podcast is about the stages of mitosis. I would share my podcast with the class as a sample and assign each group a specific topic on cells to make a podcast about. For example one group would do a podcast on the organelles of a cell, the other would do one on  the differences between plant and animal cells and another group would do one on Meiosis… and so on.  The class would post their casts on the classroom blog and can refer to the pod casts for future reference. I used garage band for Mac to make this podcast.