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In this blog entry from the first week of the study a few of the children went with one of the teachers on a test run of the bus system to get maps from the City Visitor Center. Many of the subsequent posts were dictated by children to the teacher.

Figure: Webpage that shows the 4/5K class blog. The blog is date September 21, 2012 and is called "The Park Project Blog."Below the titles are five images, a white bird flying, a brown road sign that reads, "Main Parking & Visitor Center 1 Mile Ahead,"a birds-eye-view map, a satellite image of North America, and an African-American women in front of a chalkboard. Below the images is a search field and a menu bar with the buttons About, Our Classroom, Meet the Teachers, Photo Gallery, Upcoming Events, and Archives. The blog has two columns. The left column reads, "Birds Eye View by Butterfly Class. The first week of Summer I we showed the children some maps and talked about "birds-eye-view."We looked at maps we had picked up on a field trip to the Visitor's Center and also at Google maps and Google Earth. We asked the children to draw their own "birds-eye-view"maps. You will notice that the children generally combine birds-eye-view and side view. They draw their beds and other things they have seen from above as birds-eye-view and they draw everything else from a side view. We really enjoyed looking at these maps. The right column of the blog shows a September calendar labeled Upcoming Events. Underneath the calendar is a Contact Us section with three form fields Name, Email, Question/Comment.

The blog also included teacher reflections, copies of articles they had read that informed their planning, and links to online resources they had used to develop and conduct the study. Other artifacts from their work, such as organizational charts and brainstorming lists that were too big to scan, were displayed in the classroom and photographed to upload to the blog. Figure 5.2 includes a sample entry from the blog.

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