space.discussion.GroupProject




 * Group Project - The Human Body & Nutrition

Directions: 10 Easy Steps to Success! **

** STEP 1. ** ** STEP 2. ** STEP 3: **
 * We will sing and dance to a new Human Body video, searched and chosen from Google Videos, upon entering the classroom each morning.
 * Click here for the Google Video search example . The First video listed is perfect! Lets watch it here.
 * Check your individual Google Gmail accounts for assigned work groups, and the group Google Calendar for your daily health tip and nutritional lunch alternative!
 * It should look like this: [[file:calendar_2010-04-25_2010-05-02.pdf]]
 * 
 * Get into your groups and each member chooses one of the human body systems so each group has a "full body."

STEP 5: **
 * STEP 4: **
 * Each one of you should read any the 2 selections on your chosen from my Google Books Bookshelf here and **add them to your group bookshelf.**
 * Don't worry, they are only excerpts (parts), not entire books that you have to read.
 * 
 * Each one of you should write a summary- by creating a new Google doc- based on what you have read.
 * Answer the questions: 1) What Have I learned? 2) Why is it important to me? and anything else you want to share.
 * Save your document in your folder as "//yourlastname//Summary" and e-mail it as an attachment to person to the right of you in group.
 * My Google Docs Summary example is right here


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">STEP 6: IMPORTANT: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Open your group-mate's e-mailed summary and edit and spell check it using the features we learned in Google Docs "tools".
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Now save it as the name of the file and "edited" (such as KuhnSummary_edited) and e-mail it back to the original author.


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">STEP 7: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Post all of your groups summaries on the group Google Knols we created by copying it from your Google doc and pasting it to the Knol.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Then together, rewrite it to change the tense from "I" to "We" as it is a group project.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Remember, the way we set it up, anyone in your group you can change your Knol from anyplace, just like wikipedia.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">My Google Knol example is right here!

STEP 9: **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">STEP 8: **
 * Outline each other on the large paper and makers I provided while laying on your back, one-at-a-time.
 * Now use <span class="wiki_link_ext">Google Images to do a safe search for pictures of the major organs and muscles. Print them out- as many to one sheet as possible.
 * Also find images of what you would use in or on your hands, feet, mouth, ears, and nose.
 * Click here for my Google Images Example.
 * Cut the pictures out and glue them onto the appropriate parts of the body outline.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Open this Google Forms spreadsheet entitled Student Data<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Using the measuring station, take each others’ height measurements and put them into the spreadsheet as we learned.
 * Now fill in the rest of the information on the spreadsheet in the appropriate row and column and save it!
 * Later, we will sort by different values and create, view, and understand a pie chart based on this spreadsheet just like this one!


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">STEP 10: **
 * Congratulations! You just completed a very difficult group project. Because of it, you are not only much more knowledgeable about the human body and it's systems but how to take care of it, what to feed it.
 * You also learned some great computer skills and tools in the process! Please share what you have learned and use the skills for your own projects too!


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">FOR PARENTS AND EDUCATORS: **

**Google Tools We Used: Areas of Accomplishment**
 * Google Calendar: Organization, Health, Nutrition
 * Google Gmail E-mail: Organization, Collaboration, Communication
 * Google Docs: Writing, Editing, Spelling
 * Google Books: Reading, Searching, Science
 * Google Forms: Math, Social Studies
 * Google Knol: Writing, Sharing, Collaboration,
 * Google Images: Art, Science, Social Studies
 * Google Videos: Searching, Song, Dance, Science

Try it out with what you are having for lunch or snack today. ** media type="custom" key="5985015" align="center"
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Here is a really useful widget for determining the nutritional value of any food!

<span style="background-color: #fff300; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; text-align: center;">CONTACT ME: Peter Kuhn [|Metro State College of Denver] pkuhn2@mscd.edu