4th Graders explore science of water
The Ellis 4th grade took their capstone project to a new level this year. Using science, art, geography, math, literacy, and technology skills they built over the school year, the students studied and described the impacts of rivers on people and people on rivers. First the students learned to draw maps of the United States by hand from memory and made these videos showing their progress.
Each student then picked a river and built a game board, complete with augmented reality videos.
The videos are triggered using Aurasma (by pointing a device to images on the map), through which players explore how each river affects the ecosystems and communities around it. This content and interaction creates an augmented reality scavenger hunt where players learned about uses for river basins, challenges river basins face, and ways people are working to relieve problems along river systems.
The 4th graders also built water run-off models, waterwheels, water filtration systems, and wrote poems about their rivers. Special thanks go out to the teachers who made the Capstone Project possible. They are: Roberta Purper Brandao, Ph.D., Patrick Fagersten, Kim Mechling, and Jessica Nolan.
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The videos are triggered using Aurasma (by pointing a device to images on the map), through which players explore how each river affects the ecosystems and communities around it. This content and interaction creates an augmented reality scavenger hunt where players learned about uses for river basins, challenges river basins face, and ways people are working to relieve problems along river systems.
The 4th graders also built water run-off models, waterwheels, water filtration systems, and wrote poems about their rivers. Special thanks go out to the teachers who made the Capstone Project possible. They are: Roberta Purper Brandao, Ph.D., Patrick Fagersten, Kim Mechling, and Jessica Nolan.
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