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Learning with Nature Website
This collaborative learning experience was designed by our group when online learning was still very much at the forefront of most educators minds due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, we set out to see if we could design a student-centered, on-line unit for students in Kindergarten to grade 3 that would allow teachers to combine both synchronous and asynchronous learning while still promoting inquiry and hands-on learning while learning about plants. Designing on-line experiences for young children is not an easy task, and it requires a lot of time and careful planning. However, the requirements of this assignment really required us to become familiar with multiple frameworks based on Constructivism that would help to guide our project. This project and the entire course really helped me to become familiar with many learning design principles especially the idea that technology integration needs to be planned deliberately with consideration for the role it will play in helping to achieve the learning outcomes. It also provided me with practice in incorporating Indigenous content, as I developed Module 4 of our project “What are some traditional ways that First Peoples use plants and trees?
MET Course
ETEC 510
Goals
Learning Design
Created By
Melissa Phillips-Tucker / Stephanie Carr / Menghan Guo / Nataliia Kudryk / William Tam
Date
April 2021
