Teaching Strategy 1: This particular lesson is well suited to upper elementary school students who are in an environment with at least one set of the minimum technology tools listed in the introduction of the lesson. In order to ensure wide participation by ALL students, one approach might be to divide the students into groups of three (certainly NO MORE THAN FOUR). While there is no automatic formula, it is often wise to spread the less prepared students around so that the groups are diverse in terms of cognitive development. Each group would create a KWL* chart. They could start out by creating their own indvidual lists of what they already KNOW about butterflies, and then combine them into one group list. By doing presentations, students can demonstrate learning without "pen and paper" methods. Creating diagrams on large flip-cards are a good strategy for empowering students who are challenged by writing with an opportunity for demonstrating and communicating their learning. They can, for example, paste selected printouts of the images from the web cams into order on a timeline. This would DEMONSTRATE an understanding of the sequence of change in this life-form.
* KWL charts are explained briefly on one of the Educationtechnologies.com resources pages.
