William's Animal Habitat- Digitise It Learning Story - August 2015

Learner: William                                                                         Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats. William has been building his language and developing his understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  William is able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of specific animals and used his curiosity to research the adaptations of the Cheetah.  William recognises that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive and could identify these for his creature.   William was fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where many animals captured his curiosity.  He used the learning from the zoo trip to create a creature using the www.buildyourwildself.com wesbite.  William needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for a cheetah.  He opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that he wanted to design the creature habitat in Minecraft and demonstrate his capability at using it.  He went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the cheetah, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool of his choosing.   William couldn’t use Minecraft in the end and created his habitat using a tool called google draw.  Ask him to show it to you!  William collaborated well- listening to other learners and asking questions. When it was time to share their learning, he presented his habitat with some confidence to all of the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see his assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about the learning and share with parents come prepared so you cna follow your original design create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in the final product practice presenting so you are prepared- why don’t you present to your family?!