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Animal Science Notebook ABEKA-Exploring the World of Vertebrates; Exploring the World of Invertebrates SC Science Standard:Classify animals (including mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects) according to their physical characteristics.

Create a notebook about animal classifications and hand it in to the teacher. Use construction paper along with drawings or pictures of animals from each classification. Publish your own movie/slideshow by using[| Kizoa] for a real audience, that can be seen by anyone in the world who is interested in your topic. After you create your movie/slideshow I will help you upload it to your own Wiki space.
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During the year we take the students to the Columbia Zoo. In science we are studying the classification of animals and their characteristics. Usually the students take pictures at the zoo and then they use them to create a science notebook of all the animals. They write on paper the descriptions and names of each animal. They then turn in the project and the teacher gives a grade on the notebook. No rubric is used. A checklist is given to follow. Fast forward to school year 2011-2012. My students will be going to the zoo and take pictures of the animals. Instead of printing those pictures out, we will use them in their digital form and create a movie/slideshow for our notebook. I will use[| Livebinder] to create a data base for animal information. Using Kizoa is very simple. The drag and drop features are easy for third graders. They will be able to help each other create their notebooks. They will need to discover how to add more text to their pictures and how to use different background A lot of Kizoa gose unexplored. I will leave that for the students. Music, transitions and effects can be added to the movie for special effects. The final projects will be uploaded to You Tube or Wiki space under a private viewing for parents and classmates outside of the classroom. We may use peer critiquing and a rubric to evaluate the students success. Everyone one is a winner by using technology and using it to explore science. Now those paper notebooks are a thing of the past!

The videos below show how to use Kizoa to create a movie/slideshow. There are many options to use, but we want to first explore how to make a movie/slideshow. In the video I encourage the students to go back and create a collage using the pictures they already have loaded. Self-teaching can lead to many creative and innovative things. No project will be the same. Which is GREAT!

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