Sharks, Sharks, Sharks

I can hardly contain my excitement this week!!  On Thursday, we will be having a Skype lesson with Ms. Jillian Morris.  She is a marine biologist that lives in the Bahamas.  She will be calling in on Thursday morning to teach us all about sharks.





I thought I'd share a little about how this came about.  Dr. Patterson has encouraged the teachers to branch out and try something new concerning technology.  I decided that Twitter would fit in my classroom.  My students are encouraged to "tweet" when they have a "wonder".  Then they will tag @Wonderopolis in their "tweets".  We have had a lot of students tweet and have had awesome responses from Wonderopolis.  One day, Preston wondered "I wonder why sharks get new rows of teeth".  His tweet was retweeted by several people which attracted the attention of Sharks 4 Kids.  They were excited that our students were wondering about sharks and wanted to teach our students all about sharks and their teeth.  After getting our lesson set up, the students began to research about sharks and have come up with a list of questions to ask about sharks.  I believe this will be an exciting learning opportunity for the students!!!


I will post pictures on Thursday of the lesson and hopefully I will be able to record the lesson as well!!