Digitally Connecting With Our Natural World

 

This week, we focused on creating a lesson plan that focuses on digitally connecting with our natural world. I took this as an opportunity for students to take technology outside the classroom and use it for inquiry and research purposes in the Small crawling and flying animals unit. My lesson plan can be read here!

I plan to use technology like this in the future, not only because tech is becoming so prevalent in young students lives, but also because students should be able to see the benefits of using technology for research instead of using it for games, or as a class distraction. I really think that the application of technologies in the classroom have unlimited potential for creating engaging, and meaningful lessons that foster skills for students to use in later grades, as well as in their personal lives.