Project+Planning+Workspace

This page is for you to brainstorm about the types of research you would like to include in your African lion preservation wiki. The resources should support your final PowerPoint/Keynote Learning Journey.Your goal is to find good quality resources that support your project topic/sub-topics.The compiled wiki resources will be a place for students to come to find focused, quality resources on African lions. In addition, I have added a Learning Journey Overview. On this page, we will post your final learning journeys and instructions for how to complete the journey. Since the file size will get very large using PowerPoint, we can post your individual PowerPoints as individual lesson segments (this also "chunks" the information for the learner), which will make it easier to deliver your lessons to CERT-FEMA, the African Widlife Foundation and the schools. It will also allow you to link to the whole project to your teaching portfolios, if you choose to. This particular project planning page will probably be deleted when you are finished planning.

1. Think about what you want to teach students about African lions and preservation of the species. What do you want them to know? This will be the goal/s of your project. Draft a a few sentences describing your project goal.


 * //__ Rich suggested African Lion "Educational Goals for the 4th and 5th Grade": __//**
 * //__﻿__//**
 * Hey ladies and gentlemen, I added in the following educational goals we can discuss, add to and or modify.. From my vast experience it is always easier to create a lesson for the higher grades like 4th and 5th and then water it down for the younger grades. I would like to focus our Wiki on "Grades 4 and 5".. **
 * 1) **Provide the children with sufficient background and foundational knowledge regarding the concept and need for conservation.**
 * 2) ** Enable the children to understand the fragility and co-dependence of all living things. **
 * 3) ** Assist the children to understand the economic issues facing the developing nations as their human population and pressure adversely affect the wild lions and their peer animals. **
 * 4) ** Afford the children the ability and opportunity to inquire deeper knowledge, to utilize their critical thinking skills, their foundational scientific, mathematic, economic knowledge regarding to comprehend the current big issues the developing African and Asian nations. **
 * 5) ** Support the children’s collaboration and brain storming to develop creative strategies to assist the developing nations in Africa and in Asia where the remaining wild lions live to conserve their natural wild habitat. **

2. Next, identify the sub-topics (chunks of information) that each of you would like to develop (maybe "About Lions," "Food," "Habitat," "Continent Africa," "Lion Personalities," "Lion Family Structures," "Threats to Lions," "The Economy of Poaching," "Organizations and People Who are Helping," "What You Can Do.") Each of your sub-topic should be aligned with the overall goal/s of your project.Write your sub-topics here and who is developing the content.

3. Next, think about what types of resources (student and/o teacher) you would like to find to use in your learning journey and to support your project (web sites, wikis, videos, pictures, activities/worksheets, iPad apps, etc.).

4. How do you think they should be categorized and ordered on the content on the wiki?