Glogster

Lesson Plan

Objective

• Students will apply current events to biology
• Students will be able raise biological awareness to the public
• Students will see how biology relates to "real life"
• Students will be able to apply biology in a fun creative way

Procedures

1. Have students create a poster once a month
2. Students will research current events dealing with biology (looking through newspapers, Internet articles, problems they have seen personally, pretty much anything that concerns biology and interests them.)
3. Students will write a small paragraph why they are interested in the topic the chose and how it relates to biology
4. A poster will be created addressing the topic
5. Posters will be presented to the class

Evaluation

• By doing this project students will see how much biology is involved with and is applied to daily life
• Students will become comfortable with glogster and be able to use it for other projects
• Students get excited about certain biological aspects

Final Project

For my final project I am working with glogster. This is such a great tool. I am excited to use this in my biology classes because it is an easy way for students to show how biology relates to everyday life. I would use this tool for students to find current events, things brought up in the news, or anything that relates to biology and create a fun poster with glogster about it. A couple examples are: the recent oil spill, or the question of whether or not honey bees are declining and why. These posters could also point out things that people can do to "save" the earth. Like I said before, I am really excited about this tool.

So far with this project I have created my lesson plan and will post that in a little bit and I have played a lot with the glogster program. I haven't started with my sample poster yet, but I think that that should go pretty fast because I have been playing around with glogster so much.

Multimedia Project...Ducks

This video took a lot more time and work than I originally thought it would. I think it turned out great though and will NEVER look at ducks the same way :)

Multimedia Project

I am finished making my video but now need to upload it to youtube. I'll try to get that posted tonight.

My Website Update

I finished my website!

My Website

I added my website to my blog list. It can also be found here.