This year in first grade our students are required to learn about birds, fish, and mammals.  We thought that using technology would be very beneficial for enhancing their learning about this subject area in science.  Our goal was for the children to be able to tell us names of bird, fish, and mammals as well as being able to tell us why it is a bird, fish, or mammal.  For example, a lion is a mammal because is has fur, live babies, and a backbone.

So we began our journey of learning about birds, fish, and mammals.  One of the vehicles we used on this journey was technology.  We incorporated various types of technology into each of the lessons for this unit.  Below is a list of the lessons and technology involved for each lesson.  For specific details of each lesson visit the "Exhibits."
 

• Using digital cameras on a field trip to the Detroit Zoo.
• Using Microsoft Word on the computer to type stories about their pictures from the zoo.
• Using Kidspiration software to produce story webs about a bird, fish, or mammal.
• Using Kid Pix to draw a picture based on their story webs.
• Using Microsoft Word on the computer to type stories from the story web.
• Using Kidspiration software to place animal stamps in categories labeled bird, fish, and mammal.
• Navigating a power point presentation of a classroom book called "First Graders, First Graders, What Do You See?"