After much research using Google, You tube, Scootle and Nasa Kids our group found some great resources that would support our topic 'space' and would teach kids in an authentic way. Scootle was a great resource that had information following the Australian Standardised Curriculum for year 5 students which was our intended age group.
I found looking for resources the most tedious as I spent hours on the computer looking for resources that had worksheets, interactive games and videos and it was hard to find specifics on the solar system that we needed to teach at that year level. This was the most important part for Hannah and Cleo to complete their teachers and students resource pages as they needed to embed, hyperlink and add information about these resources. Karri did a lot of work on this part and it was great to have her dedication as it was extremely frustrating, of hours searching the net and not finding something that was appropriate to what we wanted to educate the students about.
Nasa was a great website as this was dedicated to astronomy. There was a kids section on Nasa that had lots of great information and interactive tools for both students and teachers. We got a lot of information from this resource and found it very helpful.
Another great resource was You tube. This had a lot of videos that were developed for kids to teach them about space. It also had tutorials on how to teach kids how to blog, and use Kerpoof which was our online technology for kids to make a digital story book on space.
Kerpoof is a great resource to implement technology in a fun and creative way to create a digital story book. This was a great way to show an authentic way of teaching in the classroom and one that also brings art into the subject area.
Throughout this we used Skitch to create screen captures and I created a presentation with a 5 minute narration that was a requirement of the task. I decided to use Powerpoint to present my information as it has all the tools and gadgets available to present my work as well as making it engaging to viewers.
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