And We're Off!

Today we officially started the project. Students began by taking the survey which went very quickly. They had a little trouble with the last question, "do you like writing, why or why not?" because they were not sure if that meant writing on the computer or by hand. I responded by saying it was writing in general. Also interesting is that they asked what a blog is to be able to answer the first two questions of the survey. I didn't give them much information on what a blog was. I said it is like an online journal where someone writes their thoughts. This seemed to be enough for them to answer.

I love the online survey tool! It was great to be able to immediately see the results question by question. I can't wait to get more in depth with it. I do think I'll upgrade to the premier edition so that I can filter the results.

We also started by watching the beginning of "An Inconvenient Truth". We stopped and the kids responded to questions about what they saw by writing in their journals by hand. Then we discussed a little bit about what they wrote. There seemed to be a genuine interest in learning about global warming. Also, they wanted to know more about how it works. I think tomorrow we will look at some other sources of information to help explain global warming before we go back to the movie.