Assignment Five
Beth, H. (1998). The database: America's presidents. Learning and Leading with technology, 25(7), 6-11.
Write a summary of how you would use a database in your class.
In a first grade class that I observed, the class was learning about Johnny Apple Seed. The teacher asked that all parents send their child’s favorite apple to school. The children created a data base of types of apples students brought to class, yellow, red, green, or mixed color apples. They created graphs and pie charts based on their database. The teacher also created a database of how many big apples, medium size apples, and small apples. The children really enjoyed this project and they cut the apples up at snack time and taste-tested the different type of apples. I would use this apple database lesson plan in my classroom, because the students really enjoyed the lesson in graphs because it was hands on, visual, and a good tie into the Johnny Apple Seed history lesson. Plus, the apples are a nutritious snack!
Database projects are great for mini beginner science projects. Database projects require a lot supervision. The students should be allowed to work in groups and the teacher should walk around and visit each group to make sure they are entering the correct data or else the charts / graphs and conclusion will be wrong.
Frances,
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a really fun project! How neat for the students to engage in a science experiment and the teacher could use this as a great opportunity to use a spreadsheet for the data collected. Your blog is very neatly organized and the formatting looks like you spent a lot of time perfecting it :) Also, I think it's great that you posted a picture of yourself so that people who read your blog can see the face with the hard work you've posted. Excellent work!
Sincerely,
Gretchen Brown