Animal Habitat, Digitise It Learning Story - August 2015

Learner: Samantha                                                                   Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats. Samantha has been building her language and developing her understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  Samantha is able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of some specific animals.  Samantha makes connections that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive and could identify these for her animal, the white lion.  Samantha was fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where many animals captured her curiosity.  She used the learning from the zoo trip to try to create her creature using the www.buildyourwildself.com wesbite.  She used her curiosity to learn about the adaptations of the white lion.  She needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for his creature.  He opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that she wanted to develop her capability at using a new digital tool.  She went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the white lion, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool of her choosing.  Samantha collaborated well- listening to other learners and asking questions.  Her GOOGLE DRAWING was a good representation of what she initially planned with some modifications.  Ask her to show it to you!  When it was time to share their learning, she presented her habitat with some confidence and lots of enthusiasm to the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see his assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about the learning and share with parents create a product of their learning eg. google presentation to show all of the steps create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in the final product practice presenting so you are prepared- why don’t you present to your family?! check your research so you are not presenting false facts