Yuvika's Animal Habitat- Digitise It - August 2015

Learner: Yuvika & Komal                                                          Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats. Yuivka and Komal hve been building their language and developing her understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  They are able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of specific animals.  They used their curiosity to research the adaptations of their selected animals- tiger and lion- both in the African large cat family.  They recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive and could identify these for owls.   Komal and Yuvika were fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where many animals captured their curiosity.  For fun, they combined some of these animals and used the learning from the zoo trip to create a creature using the www.buildyourwildself.com wesbite.  After this, they needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for their tiger and lion.  They opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that he wanted to design the creature habitat in a new digital tool to develop her capability at using it.  They each went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the Tiger and Lion, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool of their choosing.  Yuvika’s google draw was a good representation of what she initially planned with some modifications.  Ask her to show it to you!  Komal used Tinkercad to draw her habitat and had some difficulties with this tool. Vivian collaborated well- listening to other learners and asking questions. When it was time to share their learning, she presented her habitat with some confidence to the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see Komal’s assessment here and Yuvika’s here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about the learning and share with parents Yuvika’s project would benefit from some deeper research to have a better understanding of the lion adaptations create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in the final product Komal needs to practice presenting and do clear research so you are prepared- why don’t you present to your family?!