In the middle of my Earth's Water unit I knew I needed some more punch...something to perk student interests in the ever present water cycle (how many times does it appear in the curriculum???? a million????) and ocean chemistry. Climate change current events is everywhere so I knew that something could pique the interests of my students.
Sure enough it was a book about Droughts.....sounds pretty exciting doesn't it. Well, the topic is even if a whole book isn't. I knew that they were especially interested in the Dust Bowl. Heck many of their grandparents remember the 1930s. So I thought I utilize that as my hook.
I created another Voicethread that merged our science content with historical pieces from the Kansas Historical Society. They went nuts reading the newspaper article accounts of dust storm encounters. They were amazed at the photographs that are available. In a little over a week they left over 100 comments about what they were seeing and what interested them.
Take a look at the work they created and the comments they left.
