clouds- voicethread

My science activity will be to perform an experiment in which the experimenter creates clouds in a bottle. The clouds you see in the sky are formed when water vapor is cooled enough to form tiny water droplets. When moist, cool air rises to a higher altitude, it cools, water droplets are formed, and voila - you have clouds. In this experiment I will duplicate this same process by causing air in a bottle to rapidly cool.
The content is weather for fourth graders. I chose Objective 2: Describe the water cycle.
1. Locate examples of evaporation and condensation in the water cycle (e.g., water evaporates when heated and clouds or dew forms when vapor is cooled).
2. Describe the processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation as they relate to the water cycle.
The pedagogy is observing, classifying, inferring, predicting, measuring, acquiring and processing data. This is relevant to my content because before I do my experiment I will make predictions, then I will observe what happens. After I have observed, I will make inferences as to what happened and acquire data.
The technology I will use is kidsperation and google sky. Kidsperation will help my students make connections and google sky will help them see clouds in real life.

I watched Jennifer's, Janet's and Nancy's tours and commented on each of their blogs. They all had really great activities that helped the students explore the subjects in greater depth.

My tour is for third grade and satisfies Objective 3:
Demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment. And standard:d. Locate continents and oceans on a map or globe (i.e., North America, Antarctica, Australia, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean). My subject matter is the continents and oceans. I chose this because it is important for students to understand how our world is laid out and the tour really helps show it well.
I used teaching tools such as letting the children discover on their own what they need to learn but I also gave them specific instruction about the subject.
The technology I used was google earth and this is helpful to the content because it helps the students get a great perspective on the material. It is helpful to the pedogogy because the tool allows the students to explore the material on their own.

Location Activity Description Google Earth content
1. North America Use the ruler tool to discover how wide North America is.
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2. Australia Determine which oceans surround Australia.
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3. Pacific Ocean Browse around the ocean and determine what land masses border or are encompassed by the Pacific Ocean.
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4. Atlantic Ocean Look up on the internet ten different kinds of wildlife that live in the atlantic ocean.
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This is my tour: