2.+Planning+and+Preperation

=**Planning **= **a. Knowledge gaining:** Students will gain knowledge on the interralitionships among plants and animals in their environment. Such as, producers, consumers, and decomposers. They will follow the steps on the student page. The students will then watch a Youtube video that demonstrates how producers, consumers, and decomposers work in the Ecosystem. They will also learn information on the added value websites. Next, the students will be presented with comprehension questions using a survey at monkeysurvey.com. Then the students will be put into groups to make a collaborative wiki page on their assigned topic. Lastly, they will write a reflection using the class blog, on blogger.com. Their reflection will consist of what they learned in the unit.

**b. Knowledge organizing:** First, the students are going to watch a video as a class. Individually, they will answer survey questions that relate to the video.Then the students will be working together in collaboritive groups to create a wikispace and presentation. Lastly, the students will work individually to do their reflection that they will write on what they learned in the whole unit.

**c. Knowledge sharing:** The students are going to share their information on their wikispace page with the class. They will then share knowledge by watching the other classmates presentations.

==Preparation ==

**-Teacher will find a Youtube video. **
==**-Teacher will create comprehension questions for the survey, using surveymonkey.com. **==

**-Teacher will arrange class groups. **
==**-Teacher will create a wiki on wikispaces.com and give access to all students so they can do their projects. **== ==**-Teacher will set up a new blog, using blogger.com for the student reflection. **==