I remember doing something that is similiar to this activity in my elem. school. We didn't however use any internet resources to compile or gather our info. We used books from the library or our science textbooks and information that our teacher gathered beforehand for us. I remember her setting different areas for us to learn about and having to find a specific number of things for each. For our final presentation of our animals we gave reports on the things we learned and showed pictues from the books we had.
This assignment goes along with my hands on learning style. My learning style is to learn by doing hands on things. By adding all the info that is expected to be added I am physically going out and searching for this info. Then I physically have to type it in. That covers two different ways to learn that I actually have to do something to get the info.
I am not surprised that there were no text books used in this assignment. In this technology age, text books are not really needed to teach things. Most things that are needed can be found on the internet. Sometimes the things found are even more interesting and more dynamic than that is found in the texts!
The only thing that worries me about this assignment are the students abilities to use technology to find and use the info. Most students today are on computers every chance they get. However, some of the low ses families do not have anytime access to computers so they are more slow to use them effecitively.
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