AKGTC + Breakout: Step 6 – Student Experts

Our next step is to have students pick a location in the community (one that we previously took pictures of) and become an “expert”. Here’s what this will involve:

• The class brainstorms a list of questions that would help someone learn more about the history of a location in their community.
• The students will conduct a COVID-friendly phone interview with the current owner of a location (or someone who is knowledgeable about the location if it is a public site).
  • the teacher has set up the contacts ahead of time and an EA or other helper will record the call on an iPad so that the student has record of the answers to use later for their research
• Each student will add a summary of their “expert interviews” into a class slide-deck;
  • we’ve started with each student filling in a template slide after selecting a unique background colour; inserting a photo from our shared photopalooza collection folder; adding the name of the company or location; and finally adding their own name to the slide with word art
  • after the interview is conducted, students will add their research highlights to an additional slide or two in their background colour – each “colour” will be a different location topic
• When most slides/locations are complete, the slide deck will be added to the class Padlet which is linked to the A Kids Guide to Canada site. Padlet has been a clever tool because we added the link when we created our initial “location” on the map, and then we can continually add items without having to request changes from the website hosts.

Some of the places that students will become “experts” about:

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Grade 4-5-6 Photo Expedition

Click here to read about the rest of the steps in our Kid’s Guide to Canada Map + Breakout EDU Community project.