1. The Concept Question Board For Use in the Kindergarten Unit 4 The Wind By Lay Kien Tri & Andrea Wong

2. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Introduction Do you want to know how to help your child contribute to his/hers classroom Concept Board ? Our Kindergarten room will have a Concept Corner with a Concept/Question Board. It is a place where your child may bring to school many different things, a show and tell area about our Unit Theme, The Wind.

3. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Task Your task is to choose a website that tells about the wind and look at it with your child. Read one or more of the articles. If possible, visit one of the windmill farms. Talk to your child about what the wind is doing, how it affects the climate, farming, natural resources. How do people harness the wind to help mankind such as is done in windmill farms. Assist your child in coming up with questions about the wind. Ask him/her questions and help him learn the difference between a question and a statement. Have your child prepare pictures about the wind. These pictures can come from the websites you’ve visited, newspapers, magazines or be pictures you have drawn, colored or collaged together to explain things about the wind and what it does. Bring to school materials to add to the Concept Question Board in your child’s classroom.

4. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Process Your child will bring home the Concept/Question Board Wind CD. View the CD with your child. Click on the following tiles and they will take you to the website you want to see: Open Court Resource Wind Energy Winds and Weather Windmills and Whirligigs Wind Gauge Science Project Weather Scope Rebus Rhymes Dr. E's Energy Lab Patriotic Windsock Browse the suggested websites together and choose the sites you are interested in using for your project.

5. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Process Look for souvenir pictures, ideas, and projects to make, that you can bring to school. Talk with your child and decide which things are interesting and meaningful to him/her. Print or save to a disc these pictures, ideas and projects. Talk again with your child about what he/she will say to the class about what he/she brought to share. Send these things to school as often as you have them available. Don’t wait for a special day.

6. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Evaluation Average Parent 1 Good Parent 2 Great Parent 3 Super Parent 4 Score View CDTakes the CD home Watches the CDWatches the CD with the other parent Watches the CD with the whole family Participate in 2 tasks Postpones doing a task Does one taskDoes both tasks alone Does both tasks with the child Select Contribution to concept boards Thinks about the concept board Begins to prepare the materials Completes the materials by themselves Completes the materials with their child Contributes to concept/questio n board Quickly cuts something out themselves Quickly cuts something out of a magazine and sends it to school with the child Finds something related to the concept and sends it with the child to school Works with their child to discovers what their child has questions about Participation of child in the classroom when discussing about the concept board Child shows no interest Child is mildly interested in the concept we are studying Child is very interested in the concept we are studying Child asks questions and contributes to the concept question board The teacher will evaluate the success of the project based on the students increased interest and participation in the Concept/Question Board. There should be ongoing participation throughout the Wind Unit.

7. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Conclusion Your assignment is over! You’ve done a great job helping your child to learn and understand about the wind. Congratulations! You and your family have had the experience of working on a project together and have explored the world of the wind together and learned together about nature. Your child has shared his/her knowledge with the other children in the classroom and enhanced their knowledge about the wind. You are a super parent!

8. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Extra Resources For extra fun and learning about the wind, please take a look at some other websites… Hurricane Activities Weather Reports Weather Links Weather Pictures Books About the Wind The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch To contact the authors: laykientri@yahoo.com angelislandeducational@gmail.com

9. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Teacher Page This is a webquest designed to encourage parents to help their children participate in the Concept /Question board for the Open Court Kindergarten Wind Unit. It links them to websites, articles and pictures about the wind and how man both protects himself from it and uses it to help produce energy. The webquest is on the CD. Introduce the webquest at Back to School Night or other parent event. The webquest is designed to be done by the parents and child together. View the CD. Copy one CD for each child in your class. Pass the CD out to each parent with the note accompanying it. In your teachers edition of Open Court 2003 Kindergarten Unit 4 The Wind see pages T32, T95, T173, T229, T312. Parents and Friends letter Weather Riddlesl

10. Process Task Evaluation Conclusion Resources Teacher Page Credits Introduction EXIT Credits This webquest was created using templates provided by our webquest instructor Laura Carter http://webquest.sdsu.edu/