Enrichment for All: A Visit to a Zoo Leads First Graders to Explore Sound

Autor/in	Kennedy, Katheryn
Titel	Enrichment for All: A Visit to a Zoo Leads First Graders to Explore Sound
Quelle	In: Science and Children, 58 (2020) 1, S.38-42 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8148
Schlagwörter	Curriculum Enrichment; Recreational Facilities; Field Trips; Grade 1; Elementary School Students; Acoustics; Learning Activities; Toys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Curriculum revision; Curriculumreform; Curriculum; Lehrplan; Reform; Freizeiteinrichtung; Exkursion; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Akustik; Lernaktivität; Toy; Spielzeug
Abstract	How can teachers take a traditional field trip and turn it into a component of a rich learning unit? The author found success in connecting a science, technology, and design class to the experiences students engaged in during a recent trip to a zoo. While students were focused on creating an enrichment toy for animals, the true enrichment was in the learning experienced by the students. The trip was a stand-alone event in that it included no specific connection to the learning goals of the science, technology, and design class. With revamped thinking on how to leverage the learning going on in the classroom, the author was able to make explicit connections that extended beyond community and engaged the students with their understanding of the engineering design cycle and with the science concepts of the senses, especially sound. Connecting to earlier studies on the five senses during the first month of school, students were ready to dive deeper into exploring sound and applying their learning through the engineering design cycle. First-grade students approached the trip to the zoo primed to identify how animals use their senses to understand the world around them. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01