Post No. 4 – Finally. The Field Trip.

Finally, now you have the chance to talk about the field trip! In the subsequent posts, you will be discussing about your field trip to UPLB and we will allocate one site for each post.

So, gear up and use these guide questions for your Post No. 4:

• Why did you have a field trip?
• Why did you join the field trip?
• What did you expect from it?
• How did it feel before the actual field trip?

Now, let’s talk about the first site – the Dairy Training and Research Institute (DTRI).

• What did you expect to learn from the DTRI?
• What did you learn from the DTRI?

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In this post, you have to discuss already the organisms that you met in this site. Here are the details that you should include about the organism:

1. Name of organism

• Common name
• Scientific name
• Taxonomic classification

2. Characteristics

• What’s interesting about this organism?
• Why did you choose it?

3. Ecological relationship

• Ecological role (e.g. producer, consumer, decomposer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger, etc.)
• Ecological relationship/s with other organism/s
• Describe the ecological relationship/s

4. Picture/sketch of the organism

Deadline of Posting: March 3, 2011 (Thursday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 4
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 1
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 2
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 3

Deadline of Evaluating: March 6, 2011 (Sunday)

Post No. 3 – From animals to plants…

As compared to your third quarter CEO, your fourth quarter CEO focused straightforwardly to the diversity of the plant kingdom. Some of you worked individually, some by group.

Post No. 3 entails you to reflect back again how you were able to come up with your fourth quarter CEO, thou this time, comparing it to your third quarter outputs. Again, this is a personal reflection that should be able to answer the following questions:

• What is your fourth quarter CEO? Give a brief introduction. Indicate also if you worked individually or with a partner/group.
• Was it easier for you to prepare for this CEO? Why or why not?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of working alone/in a group?
• Did you still encounter any problem/s as you prepare for the said project? If yes, how did you resolve those problems? If none, what made it easy for you to prepare for it?
• What is the most important lesson that you learn from that CEO?

Deadline of Posting: February 25, 2011 (Friday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 4
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 3
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 1
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 2

Deadline of Evaluating: February 28, 2011 (Monday)

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The Projects

Credits to Digital Revolutions for the background of the logo

and Clker.com for the recycle blue crystal earth globe clip art.

Here are the URLs of the entries to the blogging project:

Lauan 1 (Mike, Rafael, Jeremy, Star)
- The Science Gurus

http://thesciencegurus.blogspot.com/

Lauan 2 (Frances, Shauna, Triza, Jeno, Cariel)

- Blogitty Blog-Blog

http://blogittyblog-blog.blogspot.com/

Lauan 3 (Raine, Enzo, Camille, Jigger, Inna)

- RECaJiInna

http://recajiinna.blogspot.com/

Lauan 4 (Bertha, Je-an, Sam, Tan)

- The Adventures of the Earth Trotters

http://earthtrotters.blogspot.com/

Almaciga 1 (Miguel, Khael, Adi, Clarisse, Alex)

- Science Adventurers!

http://migadikhalexclar.blogspot.com/

Almaciga 2 (Zion, Anabel, Donny, Misha)

- Science Explorers!

http://thescienceexplorers.blogspot.com/

Almaciga 3 (Reisa, Margot, Khaim, Gobs)

- A Walk Through Biodiversity

http://theminigurus.blogspot.com/

Almaciga 4 (Toni, Gabbie, Caitlin, Marille, James)

- A Date with Mother Nature

http://sdjs-4.blogspot.com/

When you post your comment, rate the post using the following criteria as discussed in this earlier post:

• Content - (10 points)
• Coherence - (5 points)
• Creativity - (5 points)
• Voice - (5 points)
• Mechanics - (5 points)

• Text Layout - (5 points)
• Graphics & Multimedia - (5 points)
• Intellectual Honesty - (5 points)

TOTAL: (45 points)

Aside from the grade you are giving, you are expected also to give a consistently positive, respectful, and brief comment while providing a meaningful addition to their discussion.

Enjoy reading!

Post No. 2 – All About Animals

Your third quarter CEO introduced you to how diverse the animal kingdom is. We discussed about the adaptations of animals, may it be a change in structure, function, or behavior that had accumulated over successive generations, that contributed much to the current biological diversity.

Post No. 2 entails you to reflect back how you were able to came up with your third quarter CEO. This is a personal reflection that should be able to answer the following questions:

• What is your third quarter CEO? Give a brief introduction.
• How did you prepare for it?
• Did you encounter any problem/s as you prepare for the said project? If yes, how did you resolve those problems? If none, what made it easy for you to prepare for it?
• What is the most important lesson that you learn from that CEO?

Deadline of Posting: February 19, 2011 (Saturday)

Evaluation Assignments:

• Lauan Group 1 will comment on Lauan Group 2
• Lauan Group 2 will comment on Lauan Group 3
• Lauan Group 3 will comment on Lauan Group 4
• Lauan Group 4 will comment on Lauan Group 1
• Almaciga Group 1 will comment on Almaciga Group 2
• Almaciga Group 2 will comment on Almaciga Group 3
• Almaciga Group 3 will comment on Almaciga Group 4
• Almaciga Group 4 will comment on Almaciga Group 1

Deadline of Evaluating: February 22, 2011 (Tuesday)

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Post No. 1 – About Us

Your task is to make a post answering the following questions:

• Who are you?
• Why did you make this blog?

Be creative − with the name of your blogs and how you will present yourselves.

Deadline of Posting: February 12, 2011 (Saturday)

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Criteria for Evaluation

Every now and then you will be notified online and in class about the posts that you have to make. You will be evaluated on how you adhere to the requirements of each post, how you creatively presented your thoughts in your post, and how your peers will evaluate your post.

Here is the breakdown of the criteria (lifted from Karen Franker’s A Rubric for Evaluating Student Blogs) for evaluating each post in your blog:

• Content - Post provides a comprehensive insight, understanding, and reflective thought about the topic. (10 points)
• Coherence - Post presents a focused and cohesive viewpoint that is substantiated by effective supporting examples. (5 points)
• Creativity - Posts are creatively and fluently written to stimulate dialogue and commentary. (5 points)
• Voice - Posts are written in a style that is appealing and appropriate for the intended audience and a consistent voice is evident throughout. (5 points)
• Mechanics - Writes with no errors in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and standards in writing scientific names. (5 points)
• Text Layout - Effectively uses the blog’s text formatting capabilities to enhance the content’s visual appeal and increase readability. (5 points)
• Graphics & Multimedia - Selects and inserts high quality graphics and multimedia when appropriate to enhance and extend the content. (5 points)
• Intellectual Honesty - Acknowledges all image and multimedia sources with captions or annotations. Consistently and accurately cites all sources of information to support the credibility and authority of the opinions presented. (5 points)

Total: 45 points

You are required to evaluate another group’s blog using the above-mentioned criteria. The scheduling of the group assignments will be posted here and in the batch’s yahoogroups. You have to post your evaluation as a comment and your comment will also be evaluated using the criteria below:

• Comments - Writes comments and evaluation on other students’ blog postings that are consistently positive respectful, and succinct while providing a meaningful addition to the discussion. (10 points)

An independent criteria will be considered for:

• Submission - Meets all goals and deadlines for posting comments on other students’ blogs.

So therefore, for every post:

• 45 points – Blog Post (from Peer)
• 45 points – Blog Post (from Teacher)
• 10 points – Comments (from Teacher)

Total: 100 points

You are free to design your own blogs. Choose the most appropriate template and layout and add graphics, images, links, banners, badges, videos, audio, widgets, etc. as long as you are adhering to the principles of the 21st-century fluencies.

And finally, have fun in what you will be doing!

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The Blogging Project

As a response to the global call of declaring 2011 as the International Year of Forests, The Learning Tree Child Growth Center celebrated its Science and Math Fair week with the theme:

At the same time, this is the school’s Shout Out in taking an active role of being responsive to global environmental issues.

The Blogging Project is an out spurt of two quarters of discussing biodiversity inside the four corners of a sixth grade classroom.

As a culminating activity, the class headed to the University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, Laguna last February 4, 2011 to have a first-hand experience of the country’s insurmountable biodiversity.

To boot, as an assessment of the student’s learning, this CEO (Creative Expansive Output) was given to them as a challenge to effectively express what they have learned in the class through a collaborative online science journal or otherwise known as a blog.

Welcome to the blogging project! And join us as we unravel the world of Philippine biodiversity!