Carrara+Knoetgen+and+Danielle+Rhone

=Application Project Plan (APP) Planning Sheet=


 * Name:** Carrara Knoetgen and Danielle Rhone


 * Tentative Title:** Weather Wiki
 * Target Audience:** 7th Grade Life Science students

**Science Curriculum Goals: Students will:**
 * understand weather patterns and what causes them
 * identify cloud formations and determine what type of weather this may indicate
 * define what causes earth's seasons

**Media Literacy Curriculum Goals:** **Students will:**
 * Communicate collaboratively using the wiki
 * Evaluate their sources of information for accuracy and bias
 * Exercise netiquette and cyber-safety strategies
 * Evaluate and debunk myths related to weather from various sources

**Other Goals:**
 * Model collaborative planning and instruction
 * Incorporate inquiry-based learning in science instruction

**Proposed Activities:**
 * Students will contribute to a wiki on the subject of weather
 * Students will research and evaluate myths about weather

**Assessment/Evaluation (how will you know your APP works to meet your goals?):** Science Evaluation
 * Students will analyze a weather report from a week ago and explain whether or not it was accurate and why the meteorologist made the predictions he or she did
 * As a final product of their learning, each student group will prepare, direct, and film a weather report to the class.

Media Literacy Goals
 * The wiki postings will serve as evidence that the students have communicated collaboratively
 * We will have the students review the sources where they found the information to debunk or prove the weather myths.
 * We will observe the students' postings and use of the wiki to ensure netiquette and cyber-safety strategies are followed.

**Resources/Support that will help you in your development of the APP:**
 * Project LookSharp trainings and materials
 * WikiSpaces.com

**Difficulties/Obstacles to developing your APP:**
 * Finding shared collaboration time will be difficult

**Planning Steps:**
 * We will meet during the planned Project LookSharp conferences to work on the wiki
 * We will each contribute to the development of the wiki and its content on our own time