Resources on Various Means of Engagement

 Scheduling and list apps:
Pic collage: used as a visual scheduling app
Calendar app identifying lesson plan and project start and finish dates
Visual Schedules and self checks of teacher

Self Regulation Apps
Bloom self reulation app
Pocket Pond

Resources on Various Means of Expression on Life Cycle of the Frog

Collect pictures off the web in google image on the different stages of the frog’s life cycle and place them appropriately in a Pic Collage on the iPad using Pic Collage App Draw pictures of the different stages of the frog’s life cycle and capture those digitally using the iPad and camera App, place in Pic Collage .  Arrange in Pic Collage according to the cycle.   Camera App: capture images of real frogs at various stages in the life cycle to incorporate into Pic Collage or Book Creator.   Capture video of various stages of the frog lifestyle or of other students describing each stage of the life cycle and important features of the frog at each stage.   Tie the video to images and make the movie in iMovie with credits, text, transitions, voice over etc.   Use pictures from drawings or digital online and develop an iBook in Book Creator. Capture video, images and images of drawings, voice recordings for students who have difficulties writing (they would verbally explain the different stages of the frog’s life cycle). Export to iBooks bookshelf.  Share with class using Airserver software.  Develop a webmap of captured images in google or those you have collected on the web and develop a webmap of the life cycle of the frog.  Add audio recording, enlarge text, voice to text where /when required Develop a podcast on the life cycle of the frog.  Tell a story or complete an interview with a scientist (peer scientist).   Utilize PlayDoh and Wikki Stix to develop a 3D model of the life cycle of the frog.  Enrichment activity: Capture each step using Claymation or incorporate into iMovie and produce a movie using the capture video and images. Offer students option to use computer or write with pen and paper about what they know about the life cycle of the frog.  Tell a story about a frog or write a journal about a day in the life of a frog.  Use alternate access Apps and Assistive Technology as needed to enhance performance with written output i.e.  iWordQ on the iPad (word prediction), Dictation on the iPad (voice to text), CoWriter on the computer,  Apps like Clicker Writer to support and enhance performance of student with emergent literacy skills and global delays.

Resources on Various Means to Represent Information on Life Cycle of the Frog

Interactive Website Game on the Frog's Life Cycle (EXCELLENT)
http://www.turtlediary.com/grade-1-games/science-games/frog-life-cycle.html

iPad Apps 
Accessing information on the Frog's Life Cycle and interactive activities

Frog Dissection App:  Interactive Visual of the Frog Lifecycle
All about frogs section including Classification, Appearance, Eating and Living, Special Senses, Organs, EcoSystem, Videos on Frogs and Types of Frogs, Interactive activities on the digestive and respiratory system of frogs.

LifeCycle App: Interactive, self paced, learn about various groth stages, natural processes, relationships.  Visual, read aloud option

Life Cycles for Kids App:  for young children with speak aloud descriptions of each stage of various life cycles of frogs, butterflies, birds, trees and the water cycle.   Touch and tell (easy access to information for children with cognitive delays, physical disabilities, on IPPs ).  Simple, interactive and easy to use.

Franklin Frog: Franklin Frog follows the life cycle of a frog with a narration choice.  Simple easy to access graphics, read aloud and embedded facts about frogs and their life cycle.  Read to the entire class using Airserver software or assign to individual iPads for easy access by all students.








Kidspiration WebMap Examples in Science
http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration-science-examples

Raz-kids book on How Frogs Grow with read aloud option   Also excellent for students with cognitive delays, LD, visual impairments, ASD, Physical disabilities  http://www.raz-kids.com/main/Play/id/990/resource/listen_book/from/quizroom   3D TimeLine Using images from google or personal images captured previously outlining the timeline of frog life cycle.  Share on the whiteboard via Airserver and/or email to students to their individual iPads as Timeline 3d document. Explain Everything App Alternate Access for Students with Emergent Literacy Skills:   SymbolSupport App: Provide any text in modified form (copy paste into this App) with visual supports for each word and read aloud options in SymbolSupport Viewer Sample text from www.kidzone.ws/lw/frogs/facts3.htm

Frog Vocabulary

Click on each word and locate a google image associated with each term.

NOTE to teachers: If the student is accessing from an iPad select the text to have it read aloud (with Speak Selection set in Accessibility Options), on a Mac select the text and Cmd R, or load BrowseAloud to have the text read to you from the blog)

• Frogs 
• Amphibians 
• Tadpole 
• Frog Spawn 
• Frog embryo
• Froglet 
• Metamorphosis

UDL Lesson Plan on Life Cycle of the Frog

Introductory Lesson:  View the Video of Frogs 

(whole class view on Whiteboard via Airserver or direct connection to computer to LCD, assign Closed Captioning in Youtube)
Activity: Discuss, Draw, locate pictures on the computer or iPad, develop a Pic Collage on different frogs.  ESL students could identify frogs that are prevalent in their country.  Comparisons could be made between different frogs in different countries.  Colour different frogs, capture pictures online, take photos of colouring and develop a collage in Pic Collage App of different frogs.  Share via Airserver.

Refer to Vocabulary related to the frog and the frog cycle.  Complete that activity utilizing various tools to relating to the new vocabulary.  Capture pictures for later use in ebook, collage or webmap development.

SESSION #2
View this accesible video on the Life Cycle of the Frog
 http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.cyc.metamorph/

Enlarge to full screen and assign CC (closed captioning).  Offer the transcript from the website to any student who might also need to it review with text to speech, print out background information and/or transcript or have it accessed on the iPad to have read aloud, magnified or to copy/paste into SymbolSupport to add images to text for access by students who are emergent literacy learners.

Goals and Objectives

 

Life Science: Animal Growth and Changes

General Curriculum Outcome (Nova Scotia Science Curriculum Grade 2):

Students will be expected to

 

Investigating the Needs and Life Cycle of an Organism

• select and use materials to observe an organisms life cycle and ask

questions about the organisms needs and changes in growth

•describe and record observations, in various formats, of changes in

the appearance and activity of an organism through its life cycle

•propose suggestions for meeting the needs of the organism being

investigated and draw conclusions about its growth patterns or stages

based on observations

•identify new questions about the needs and growth patterns of other

organisms (202-9)

 

Comparing Life Cycles of Familiar Animals

•compare and make predictions about the life cycles of familiar

animals

•describe features of natural and human-made environments that

support the health and growth of some familiar animals