Popplet
Link: http://popplet.com/
Popplet is an online web tool that allows collaborative mind-mapping, flow charts and other visual organisations. Students can construct Popplets to brainstorm, sort and share their ideas.
Popplet is an online web tool that allows collaborative mind-mapping, flow charts and other visual organisations. Students can construct Popplets to brainstorm, sort and share their ideas.
Student Activity and Engagement:
Student will gather information on some plant and animal species from a range of resources and use Popplet as a visual tool to construct food chains and food webs. This visual presentation will help to illustrate the relationships between member species within an ecosystem for better student understanding and engagement. Students will work on this as homework after the lesson on ecosystem and present to the class as evidence for learning.
Syllabus Outcomes:
NSW Biology Stage 6 Syllabus
Students:
- 8.2.2.3.2 gather information from first-hand and secondary sources to construct food chains and food webs to illustrate the relationships between member species in an ecosystem
- 12.3 gather information from secondary sources by:
a) accessing information from a range of resources, including popular scientific journals, digital technologies and the Internet
b) practising efficient data collection techniques to identify useful information in secondary sources
d) summarising and collating information from a range of resources - 13.1 present information by:
b) selecting and using appropriate media to present data and information
e) using a variety of pictorial representations to show relationships and present
information clearly and succinctly