Transcript Service Learning Project

Service Learning
Project:
GEO Books
By:
Wagner, Richard, and Paige
NEED:
• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite
Children's Healthcare Video
SERVICE:
Creating books to be donated!
Why?
• To help a local hospital by
creating and donating
some amazing books to
their children’s library.
• To help your local
community by promoting
science education.
• To help yourself by
practicing your writing and
becoming a creative writer.
• To help yourself by
reviewing the science
content.
The Standards Addressed
• S6CS1. Students will explore the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and
skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to
understand how the world works.
• S6CS10. Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by:
a. Reading in All Curriculum Areas
b. Discussing books
c. Building vocabulary knowledge
• S6E5. Students will investigate the scientific view of how the earth’s surface is
formed.
a. Compare and contrast the Earth’s crust, mantle, and core including
temperature, density, and composition.
f. Explain the effects of physical processes (plate tectonics, erosion, deposition,
volcanic eruption, gravity) on geological features including oceans (composition,
currents, and tides).
• Middle Years Program curriculum - Areas of interaction
The five areas of interaction are: approaches to learning, community and service,
human ingenuity, environments, and health and social education.
LEARNING:
Each period created a
book about a
specific topic within
the study of
geology.
Book Pages
• You need to make one page
for your class geobook.
• After you get your general
topic, each student will need
to choose a specific topic.
• After you know what you will
write about, you need to
decide on how you will write.
So, you will need to choose a
particular writing style.
http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/writingreso
urce/typeswriting.html
1. Creative writing (i.e.
poems )
2. Cause/effect writing
3. Comparison/contrast
writing
4. Narrative writing
5. Descriptive writing
6. Informative writing
7. Persuasive writing
Timeline
• WEEK 1:
– Pre-Writing
• WEEK 2:
– Drafting
• WEEK 3:
– Revising & Proofreading
1. Peer Review
2. Edited paper
• WEEK 4:
– Drawing
• WEEK 5:
– Publishing
Topic For Each Period’s Book
Period 1
(Inside the Earth)
Period 2
(Theory of Plate Tectonics)
Period 3
(Earthquakes)
Period 4
(Volcanoes)
Period 5
(Deforming the Earth’s Crust)
Writing Process
1. Prewriting
• Choosing a topic
• Research your topic
• Organizing the information
(i.e. brainstorming)
2. Drafting
• Practice your writing
3. Revising
• Improve your writing
• Share your writing with others
4. Editing/Proofreading
• Check your writing for mistakes in
spelling and grammar
• Drawing
5. Publishing
• Pages are mailed and books are made
Prewriting
Drafting
WRITE
1. Put the information you researched into
your own words.
2. Write sentences and paragraphs even if
they are not perfect.
3. Read what you have written and judge if
it says what you mean.
4. Show it to others and ask for
suggestions.
EARTHQUAKE
• Every time the world shakes, I
think.
About all those lost
Rubble crashing down.
Blanketing the masses.
Terror fixed in the hearts of
their loved ones.
Holding on to dear hope.
Questions in their minds that
they are too afraid to ask
Underneath the collapse the
answer lies
An answer that no one wants
to hear.
Kobe
Earthquake.
Revision
MAKE IT BETTER
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Read what you have written again.
Think about what others said about it.
Rearrange words or sentences.
Take out or add parts.
Replace overused or unclear words.
Read your writing aloud to be sure it
flows smoothly.
Improve your writing by
share your writing with others
Proofreading
MAKE IT CORRECT
1. Be sure all sentences are complete.
2. Correct spelling, capitalization, and
punctuation.
3. Change words that are not used correctly.
4. Have someone check your work.
5. Recopy it correctly and neatly.
6. Make sure you have 40 or less words.
7. Only color with markers.
Publishing
Congratulate
yourself on a
job well done!
Assessing:
Element
Spelling and
proofreading
Does not meet standard
(0 pts.)
Page has multiple misspelled words
and grammar errors.
Meets standard
(1 pts.)
No major spelling errors, and
proper grammar is shown.
Exceeds standard
(2 pts.)
No spelling errors apparent and correct
grammar throughout.
Graphics/illustratio No graphics or drawings in page, or
ns
graphics or drawings on page are not
relevant to topic.
Graphics and drawings are present Graphics and drawings present, relevant
and relevant to topic.
to topic and compliment the page.
Writing process
Writing process is not apparent.
Documents not turned in.
Brainstorming, rough draft,
All elements of the writing process are
revising, final product is turned in. present, and reflection is turned in.
Neatness
Page elements are not presented
neatly. Page is hard to read.
Page is neatly put together, and
Page is neatly put together, and text or
text or handwriting is easy to read. handwriting is easy to read and
Focus on assigned
topic
Little or no attempt to keep page
information on topic. Vocabulary of
topic not present.
Information presented is relevant
to the topic. Vocabulary of topic
present.
Information presented is relevant to the
topic and expands on ideas presented.
Vocabulary of topic present.
Accuracy of facts
The facts presented are not based on
facts from reputable sources, nor are
proper credit given.
Facts presented are based on
reliable sources and proper credit
given. At least one source used.
Facts presented are based on reliable
sources and proper cited. Multiple
outside sources are used.
Overall Creativity
Page does not exhibit an attempt to
draw in the intended audience. No
page is attempted or no effort is
apparent.
Page draws in intended audience.
Page is attempted and effort is
apparent.
Page draws in audience effectively
through use of media and words. Paged is
turned in and effort is apparent.
Reflections…
Student reflections from Edmodo:
Prompt: What is the most important thing you learned while making the
GeoBook?
Jatoria S.
- The Most Important Thing That I Learned About Making The Geo Books
Are Editing, Revising, And Going Back And checking MY Work.
D'angelo R.
- Out of all I think one of the challenges was figuring out how to make a
poem using 40 words. I also wonder how the kids feel at the hospital.
Kennedi M.
- I learned that there are many ways to get your message out other than
yelling and screaming. You can calmly talk or write a Geobook.
Prompt: If we were to do another book project, how can we make it better
next time?
Haya A.
- more words, because its really hard when you write 40 words and you
have one word left you need to add in your paragraph.
Jerry G.
- have more words so we can tell more about the subject