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Earthworms

A Second Grade Inquiry-Based Science Unit


Utilizing iPad Technology
Day 1- Explore Earthworms

What do we want to learn?


Day 2-5 Investigate Questions
Name(s) ___________________ Name(s) ___________________

Book # __________ Website # __________

Page # ____________ Information


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Children use iPads and


children’s texts to research
answers to their questions.
Day 6- Create Investigatable Questions

“It may be doubted whether there are many other animalswhich


have played so important a part in the history of theworld as
these lowly organised creatures”
Day 7-8 Map Out Experiments

Day 9- Start Experiments


Day 10- Record Results

Day 11-12 - Plan Out Books


Worm Anatomy

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Day 12- ? Make Books on iPad
- used Writer’s Studio
- one page a day
- partners work together

Finished Product:
youtube.com/mmlowerschoolscience
Skills Learned and Used:

- import photos
- touch screen drawing
- fonts
- how to save and open files
- collaboration of ideas
Time to Reflect:

Wonderful Things
- skill level with touch screen developed quickly
- student’s forced to problem solve
- high level of engagement and excitement
Bumps in the Road

- books got deleted frequently


- no way to back up work
- couldn’t upload books with sound

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