Unit 8: New Ways To Learn - Project

Young children are increasingly using tablets as well as smartphones and other devices with touch screens in early education (1)______and with family members.       Tammy and Rose, age 4, have been studying sunflowers with their classmates. They want to sing and record a song about sunflowers while creating a drawing, using a(n) (2) ___ on the tablet. The girls have coordinated their efforts and are happy with the result.       To help the class learn more about sunflowers, Kathryn, Tammy and Rose’s teacher, used the tablet to find online (3)                   with photos and facts. She then took the children on a (4)____tour of Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings. They read and discussed an electronic picture book about Van Gogh’s life. The children had already examined real sunflowers and their parts, made sketches, read informational texts and stories, counted seeds, and (5)____a variety of investigations