Justin's Animal Habitat- Digitize it Learning Story - August 2015

Learner: Justin                                                     Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats.  They were fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where the animals captured the curiosity of Justin.  He has been building his language and developing his understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  Justin is very able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of specific animals like the chimpanzee. He not only recognises that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive, he can identify and discuss these for a variety of animals. Justin used www.buildyourwildself.com to create an amazing and unusual animal.  The learners were instructed that they needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for their imaginary creature.  Justin opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that he wanted to design the habitat in Tinkercad to demonstrate his capability at using it.  Justin went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the Scorcher, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool -which ended up being Tinkercad because Justin demonstrated perseverance and learned this new tool brilliantly. Justin collaborated very well- listening to others, supporting others with his knowledge and asking questions.  He assisted other learners who were using Tinkercad as he learned quickly.  When it was time to share his learning, he presented the ‘’scorcher’ habitat confidently to all of the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see his assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about their learning and share with parents create a product of their learning eg. iMovie to show his Minecraft to others create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in their final product learn more about the chimpanzee by reading books and websites about it