After studying ecosystems in science I would usually have my students sketch a food chain of their choice in their science journals and label each organism and classify its role and then have students come up to the document camera and share their food web/chain with the class. Well after some thoughts on how to Tech Up my lesson I decided to.. have students use Educreations to create their food webs/chains and then record themselves discussing how energy from the sun flows through organisms! This allowed me to assess the level of knowledge the students had obtained... were the able to take ownership of vocabulary and put terms in their own words or were they simply just reading the definitions?! After the students created their presentations we used Reflector to share each students presentation with the class!
A few opinions and thoughts about Educations:
1. As a teacher go to http://www.educreations.com/ to set up an account and then a class
2. Use the app it is much easier than the website to create
3. Search of other teachers lesson, there are some great already created presentations/lessons!
Student work on display with QR Codes linked to their Educreations so other students to see and hear their work!
Student Samples:
