the concept question board for use in the kindergarten unit 4 the wind by lay kien tri & andrea...
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The Concept Question Board
For Use in the Kindergarten Unit 4 The Wind
By Lay Kien Tri & Andrea Wong
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Do you want to know how to help your child contribute to his/hers classroom Concept Board ?
Our Kindergarten room will have a Concept Corner with a Concept/Question Board. It is a place where your child may bring to school many different things, a show and tell area about our Unit Theme, The Wind.
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Task• Your task is to choose a website that
tells about the wind and look at it with your child. Read one or more of the articles. If possible, visit one of the windmill farms.
• Talk to your child about what the wind is doing, how it affects the climate, farming, natural resources. How do people harness the wind to help mankind such as is done in windmill farms.
• Assist your child in coming up with questions about the wind. Ask him/her questions and help him learn the difference between a question and a statement.
• Have your child prepare pictures about the wind. These pictures can come from the websites you’ve visited, newspapers, magazines or be pictures you have drawn, colored or collaged together to explain things about the wind and what it does.
• Bring to school materials to add to the Concept Question Board in your child’s classroom.
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Process• Your child will bring home the
Concept/Question Board Wind CD.• View the CD with your child. • Click on the following tiles and they
will take you to the website you want to see:
• Open Court Resource• Wind Energy • Winds and Weather• Windmills and Whirligigs • Wind Gauge Science Project • Weather Scope • Rebus Rhymes• Dr. E's Energy Lab• Patriotic Windsock• Browse the suggested websites together
and choose the sites you are interested in using for your project.
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Process• Look for souvenir
pictures, ideas, and projects to make, that you can bring to school.
• Talk with your child and decide which things are interesting and meaningful to him/her.
• Print or save to a disc these pictures, ideas and projects.
• Talk again with your child about what he/she will say to the class about what he/she brought to share.
• Send these things to school as often as you have them available. Don’t wait for a special day.
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Evaluation
Average Parent
1
Good Parent2
Great Parent3
Super Parent
4 Score
View CD Takes the CD home
Watches the CD Watches the CD with the other
parent
Watches the CD with the
whole family
Participate in 2 tasks
Postpones doing a task
Does one task Does both tasks alone
Does both tasks with the child
Select Contribution to concept boards
Thinks about the concept
board
Begins to prepare the materials
Completes the materials by themselves
Completes the
materials with their
child
Contributes to
concept/question board
Quickly cuts something out themselves
Quickly cuts something out of a magazine and sends it to school with
the child
Finds something related to the concept and sends it with the child to
school
Works with their child
to discovers what their child has questions about
Participation of child in the classroom
when discussing about the
concept board
Child shows no interest
Child is mildly interested in the concept we are
studying
Child is very interested in the concept we are
studying
Child asks questions and contributes to the concept
question board
The teacher will evaluate the success of the project based on the students increased interest and participation in the Concept/Question Board. There should be ongoing participation throughout the Wind Unit.
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Conclusion• Your assignment is over! You’ve done a
great job helping your child to learn and understand about the wind. Congratulations!
• You and your family have had the experience of working on a project together and have explored the world of the wind together and learned together about nature.
• Your child has shared his/her knowledge with the other children in the classroom and enhanced their knowledge about the wind.
• You are a super parent!
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Extra ResourcesFor extra fun and
learning about the wind, please take a look at some other websites…
• Hurricane Activities
• Weather Reports• Weather Links• Weather PicturesBooks About the Wind
The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch
To contact the authors:
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Teacher Page• This is a webquest designed to encourage
parents to help their children participate in the Concept /Question board for the Open Court Kindergarten Wind Unit. It links them to websites, articles and pictures about the wind and how man both protects himself from it and uses it to help produce energy.
• The webquest is on the CD.• Introduce the webquest at Back to School
Night or other parent event.• The webquest is designed to be done by
the parents and child together.• View the CD. • Copy one CD for each child in your class.• Pass the CD out to each parent with the
note accompanying it.• In your teachers edition of Open Court
2003 Kindergarten Unit 4 The Wind see pages T32, T95, T173, T229, T312.
• Parents and Friends letter• Weather Riddlesl
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This webquest was created using templates provided by our webquest instructor Laura Carter
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/