On Tuesday, we were instructed to get into groups of 4 and create a word cloud and timeline based on our articles. For the word cloud, we had to choose an app to use and put words in it from all of our articles that related to astronomy. We used the word cloud tool "tagul" and made it creative and colorful. For our timeline, we used a very difficult tool that the whole class had trouble with. It was very confusing, but we eventually figured it out. It was just very time consuming. Something great about the presentations is that everyone took this project and did something different with it, so we really got to learn a lot. For example, our group did recent articles and incorporated all of our most recent articles and our timeline went from 2014-2016. We did this as a way to introduce a research project to the class that they can one day do with their own students on recent news about astronomy. It was also good because some of our articles were about the super moon that was very recent and unique. Students might love to do research on it considering it was so recent and some students might of actually seen it and have pictures of it. This was the approach we took for this project, and other groups did different things with it. It was really great to see different ways to use these tools that will help all of us as future teachers!
Next class we are working in different groups and finding information on the kingdoms for life science! I am excited to see how differently the groups approach this and to learn more about the kingdoms, as I have forgot a lot about them because it was so long ago!
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