Connections

Today a colleague at work shared a webQuest she created for second graders to use during our Town unit of study. She showed me the possibilities of young students using more than one Mindtool to deepen their understanding of towns today compared to colonial towns. The webquest asked the kids to work in partnerships. One student would navigate the webquest sites...the other student would use Kidspiration and create a Venn Diagram. The one student records info. into the diagram and they both work together to arrange the info into their Venn Diagram. I was excited to have my students try the WebQuest/Kidspiration project. They had just completed concept maps using kidspiration on the componenets of towns, co this will take them a step further as we explore early towns and towns now. H