Science Blog Post

We just wrapped up week 2, and students learned how to use several of the digital tools we will be using throughout the year. One of those tools was Kidblog, which is an online blogging platform for students. Kidblog allows students to share their voice with the world, but it also gives teachers and parents a certain amount of control so that we feel comfortable that students are safely contributing to the digital world.

For our first blog post, I had students choose a video on a topic that interested them from the SciShow Kids YouTube Channel. Their challenge was to watch the video and create a blog post that shared what they learned and a question they still had about that topic. Here are the directions I gave them:

I created a blog post as a model for the students, but I also told them that their blog posts could look completely different from my post. I like when they find creative ways to change it up!

You can see that in the directions I included several videos to show students how to complete each step of the directions.

I really liked starting off with a "choose your own topic" sort of blog post. I feel like that helped them get excited about doing it. My students were especially excited about choosing a blog post header image!

We're still in the process of finishing these posts, but they are looking really good and it's giving me a lot of good information about student interests, writing strengths and areas for improvement, and some general information about how well students can work through multi-step directions on their own.

Here are some examples of what they created!

Do you have your students blog in class? I'd love to hear how you using blogging in your classroom!

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