The Dream Team is creating virtual spaces for students to explore scientific concepts. Amna and Denise meet to discuss the project and agree to create two slides. The spaces will allow students to investigate natural phenomena, follow processes like the water cycle, and explore how molecules bond to form different materials. Denise, Christina, and Ralph then meet in Second Life to discuss their group's PowerPoint on creating these virtual learning spaces before sharing it online.
1. Creating Spaces
AMNA, CHRISTINA, DENISE, KARLA, & RALPH
THE DREAM TEAM
IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN
CREATE IT!
2. Create a Space for Inquiry
What might be happening at the event horizon
of a Black Hole?
Engage, challenge, and motivate our students
to learn in these virtual spaces!
3. Create a Space for Exploration
Let our students follow the path of a blood
cell as it enters the body's circulatory system in
our virtual space.
Virtual spaces will allow students to investigate
natural phenomenon without the constraints of
time and geography.
4. Survival in a Virtual World
Have students create a survival plan for their
environment (pod) and make a power point with their
avatar explaining what they would find here.
● What kind of weather would
you find in a Tropical Rain
Forest?
● What would you need to
survive?
● Where would you find shelter?
● What would you eat and drink?
5. Windows on Weather, Climate and Landscapes
Create Virtual spaces for students to inquire about weather
patterns and topography. Create a window into another world.
How do clouds form? Why? What does How did these plateaus form? What type of
air temperature have to do with it? rock are they made of? What does weather
have to do with it?
Challenge the Student to survive in this
climate and write a report on how the
How do Oxbow Lakes form? What does the
landscape formed.
stream's velocity have to do with this?
6. The students can be a droplet of water and
travel through the water cycle.
8. Creating Spaces
Amna and Denise Meet on Saturday morning to discuss the
project.
Hi Amna, We are
Yes, I will creating spaces
make two in a Virtual World
slides.
9. Students can be a acidic molecule and
travel from a factory to soil on a farm- this
is useful to study acidic rain and the
process by which we make it, and are
impacted by it.
10. Have students discuss and list how acidic molecules
reach the atmosphere by factories- where the
molecule originiates from, what changes it undergoes,
how it gets into the atmostphere?
Teacher can have students use the internet to find
simulations on evaporation, condensation, clouds and
weather patterns.
Students can "see" how acid rain is created, and how
things that are important to our lives (factories,
industry) impact the formation of acid rain
Students can then brainstorm ideas for how they
believe such destruction from acid rain can be
reduced.
11. A Space to Bond:
Molecular Bonding
Students will study
how to build
molecules from
elements while
learning about
covalent, hydrogen
and polar bonds !
12. When links of atoms
are made the
simulation can be
'seen' in action! This
makes abstract
concept of molecular
bonding concrete
and fun!
13. This virtual world
could be complex or
simplified depending
upon the classroom
dynamics.
Students would
make connections to
the real world. Any
environments can be
included because
molecules shape our
world!
14. Denise, Christina, and Ralph
meet in Second Life to
discuss our group's
"Creating Spaces"
PowerPoint before
submitting it to Slideshare.