Planting Seeds with Lino!

We have officially started our Plants and Soil unit for 4th quarter today and to launch it I used Lino/Linoit. This was the first time we did it so I kept our questions simple and something all students would be able to answer- almost like a quick inventory [or KWL] of what the students knew already about the following: plants, soil, and seeds. 

The students used a QR code to pull up the Lino and then worked alone, with a partner, and some groups of three to answer all three of the intro questions. Afterwards we discussed plants in further detail and started our Colored Celery experiment that will help us see how the coloring in the water seeps through the stem up to the leaves and in turn, changes their color.

Thank you to all the individuals who shared their experiences with Lino, Maynard for sharing the iPADS, and Shearer for sharing her celery :)

Jumping on the Linoit Venn Diagram Bandwagon!

It was so cool!  My kids loved it and were totally engaged.  We read the story Cenderellon and then I assigned each student a color and a group.  Then I gave them the QR code to the linoit I created and then I set the kids loose! They did a great job and needed very little guidance from me.  Finally, when we were all done we went over our sticky notes to review what we had learned and compared!

Here is a link to our linoit!Cinderella Linoit

Thanks to Caroline Page, Aubrey McCoy and Susan Bouchard for the inspiration!!