Curriculum Connections

Webcams provide opportunities for real-time observation of unique views we could never before see from our classrooms enhancing student understanding of various animals, habitats, ecosystems, geographical locations, weather and space events or human life. Setting up a webcam with students provides an opportunity to gather and exchange information about their unique identity and geography with other classrooms around the world.


Science

Pheasant Cam The Regina Public Schools set up a webcam in a school where Pheasant eggs were hatching as part of a program with students in the Wilderness Outdoor Research Team. The Pheasant Cam allowed students throughout the city to watch the eggs hatch in the incubator and then follow their growth and development over the following two weeks.

Ag in the Classroom - A classroom in Illinois hatched chicks and set up a webcam in the incubator.  The world watched as 14 chicks hatched on March 22 and 23.  There were 250,000 hits to their website the week the chicks hatched.

Unit of study on animal behavior - students set up a webcam to observe an animal to gain a better idea of its nocturnal habits, birth and care of young, interactions with other species etc.

Examining the ecosystem in a nearby or remote habitat.


Social Studies

Gather and analyze data to share and exchange information with another class on the climatic region, geography or sunrise and sunset times

Sriwittayapaknam School, Thailand - This school has set up a web cam. Compare a school in Thailand and then view the scene from the Grade 7 classroom window to yours.

 



 
MultiMedia: An InDepth Guide for Teachers
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