The Concept Question Board

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The Concept Question Board

• For Use in the Kindergarten Unit 4 The Wind
• By Lay Kien Tri Andrea Wong

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Introduction
Do you want to know how to help your child
contribute to his/hers classroom Concept Board
? Our Kindergarten room will have a Concept
Corner with a Concept/Question Board. It is a
place where your child may bring to school many
different things, a show and tell area about our
Unit Theme, The Wind.
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Task

• Your task is to choose a website that tells about
  the wind and look at it with your child. Read one
  or more of the articles. If possible, visit one
  of the windmill farms.
• Talk to your child about what the wind is doing,
  how it affects the climate, farming, natural
  resources. How do people harness the wind to help
  mankind such as is done in windmill farms.
• Assist your child in coming up with questions
  about the wind. Ask him/her questions and help
  him learn the difference between a question and a
  statement.
• Have your child prepare pictures about the wind.
  These pictures can come from the websites youve
  visited, newspapers, magazines or be pictures you
  have drawn, colored or collaged together to
  explain things about the wind and what it does.
• Bring to school materials to add to the Concept
  Question Board in your childs classroom.

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Process

• Your child will bring home the Concept/Question
  Board Wind CD.
• View the CD with your child.
• Click on the following tiles and they will take
  you to the website you want to see
• Open Court Resource
• Wind Energy
• Winds and Weather
• Windmills and Whirligigs
• Wind Gauge Science Project
• Weather Scope
• Rebus Rhymes
• Dr. E's Energy Lab
• Patriotic Windsock
• Browse the suggested websites together and
  choose the sites you are interested in using for
  your project.

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Process

• Look for souvenir pictures, ideas, and projects
  to make, that you can bring to school.
• Talk with your child and decide which things are
  interesting and meaningful to him/her.
• Print or save to a disc these pictures, ideas and
  projects.
• Talk again with your child about what he/she will
  say to the class about what he/she brought to
  share.
• Send these things to school as often as you have
  them available. Dont wait for a special day.

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Evaluation
The teacher will evaluate the success of the
project based on the students increased interest
and participation in the Concept/Question Board.
There should be ongoing participation throughout
the Wind Unit.
Average Parent 1 Good Parent 2 Great Parent 3 Super Parent 4 Score
View CD Takes the CD home Watches the CD Watches the CD with the other parent Watches the CD with the whole family
Participate in 2 tasks Postpones doing a task Does one task Does both tasks alone Does both tasks with the child
Select Contribution to concept boards Thinks about the concept board Begins to prepare the materials Completes the materials by themselves Completes the materials with their child
Contributes to concept/question board Quickly cuts something out themselves Quickly cuts something out of a magazine and sends it to school with the child Finds something related to the concept and sends it with the child to school Works with their child to discovers what their child has questions about
Participation of child in the classroom when discussing about the concept board Child shows no interest Child is mildly interested in the concept we are studying Child is very interested in the concept we are studying Child asks questions and contributes to the concept question board
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Conclusion

• Your assignment is over! Youve done a great job
  helping your child to learn and understand about
  the wind. Congratulations!
• You and your family have had the experience of
  working on a project together and have explored
  the world of the wind together and learned
  together about nature.
• Your child has shared his/her knowledge with the
  other children in the classroom and enhanced
  their knowledge about the wind.
• You are a super parent!

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Extra Resources

• For extra fun and learning about the wind, please
  take a look at some other websites
• Hurricane Activities
• Weather Reports
• Weather Links
• Weather Pictures

Books About the Wind The Wind Blew by Pat
Hutchins Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch
To contact the authors laykientri_at_yahoo.com angel
islandeducational_at_gmail.com
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Teacher Page

• This is a webquest designed to encourage parents
  to help their children participate in the Concept
  /Question board for the Open Court Kindergarten
  Wind Unit. It links them to websites, articles
  and pictures about the wind and how man both
  protects himself from it and uses it to help
  produce energy.
• The webquest is on the CD.
• Introduce the webquest at Back to School Night or
  other parent event.
• The webquest is designed to be done by the
  parents and child together.
• View the CD.
• Copy one CD for each child in your class.
• Pass the CD out to each parent with the note
  accompanying it.
• In your teachers edition of Open Court 2003
  Kindergarten Unit 4 The Wind see pages T32, T95,
  T173, T229, T312.
• Parents and Friends letter
• Weather Riddlesl

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Credits
This webquest was created using templates
provided by our webquest instructor Laura
Carter http//webquest.sdsu.edu/