Tundra Biome project - taking a text book project home

 

Check out this original work from three of our junior high school students, as a project extension to our class studies in Everybody Up 5. Class one = collecting ideas & googling for images, making notes, with my initial visualisation being a copy & paste job. However, as everyone was already using the PC in my classroom, I decided to let go of the mouse & keyboard & assist from the back of the room, leaving them with a Jamboard canves to populate instead. Two lads in class, sharing typing duties with a third collaborator online chirping in with editing ideas etc. I'm not 100% sure about their animal identification skills!

Biome research - googling!

There is not as much English content as I would have liked, but the task got the boys working together & thinking creatively, adding sticky notes & checking spelling, and learning how to collaborate with this online whiteboard tool. Class two: learning PC skills never did anyone any harm - it always dismays me how little Japanese students can do with tech. Regardless, this output was a personal mission for them & I am sure will settle the 'biome' concept into their memories.

Well done lads!

Expanded horizons - biome take away

Seasons personified - inspired by "The Selfish Giant"

Spring has brown hair and brown eyes. She is about 40 years old and she wears a blue-green dress.

In her hands, she has lots of birds. She lives inside a cherry tree. She plays with birds there.

She is a kind person, who loves cherry blossoms.

By ShiTei

Winter is a wizard. He is about 120 years old and he wears an ice crown and a black coat. In his hands he

 has lots of magic wands. He causes snowstorms. He lives in the snowy mountains. He is feared by

 everyone because he is scary.

Spring

By Kosuke

Spring has brown hair. She is about 30 years old and she wears a

 blue and yellow dress. In her hands she has birds. She cleans the

 woods. She lives in the woods. She is very kind.

By Ryusei