Saturday, October 30, 2004
Saturday, October 30, 2004 Using Read Write Think Part I Comic Creator
The website www.readwritethink.org is a site devoted to improving literacy, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) among others. All other content areas depend on literacy, and my particular areas of interest are math and science. I can envision using one of these literacy tools to enhance science learning.
ReadWriteThink Student Materials has a Comic Creator tool. This week's lunar eclipse provided an unusually available, accessible, and still dramatic demostration of science in action. Students could be encouraged to use Comic Creator to create a report of their observations of the eclipse. Perhaps they could use one comic panel per observation, using the caption to indicate the time of the observation, and the word bubbles to describe the picture. For example the panel with the caption Wednseday, October 27, 2004 7:00 PM, could be a picture of a partially shadowed moon. The word bubble pointing to the moon might say, "The Moon is entering the umbra, the darkest part of the earth's shadow".
Entertaining and original characterizations of he moon's condition at the observation points, should be encouraged and recognized. This enables students to construct their own understanding of the underlying science, and take advantage of the learning style that is most effective for the individual student.
ReadWriteThink Student Materials has a Comic Creator tool. This week's lunar eclipse provided an unusually available, accessible, and still dramatic demostration of science in action. Students could be encouraged to use Comic Creator to create a report of their observations of the eclipse. Perhaps they could use one comic panel per observation, using the caption to indicate the time of the observation, and the word bubbles to describe the picture. For example the panel with the caption Wednseday, October 27, 2004 7:00 PM, could be a picture of a partially shadowed moon. The word bubble pointing to the moon might say, "The Moon is entering the umbra, the darkest part of the earth's shadow".
Entertaining and original characterizations of he moon's condition at the observation points, should be encouraged and recognized. This enables students to construct their own understanding of the underlying science, and take advantage of the learning style that is most effective for the individual student.
# posted by BillZ @ 10:47 AM 
