For Parents and Teachers
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The 4-H Children's Garden Wondercasts provide new and exciting ways to explore the wonders of the 4-H Children's Garden. Using our unique Wondercast interface, kids can explore the wonders of the garden using time-lapse photography and answer a series of Wonder questions. 4-H Children's Garden Wondercasts will engage kids, expand their learning and encourage a sense of wonder and curiosity. The 4-H Children's Garden Wondercasts provide new and exciting ways to explore the wonders of the 4-H Children's Garden. Using our unique Wondercast interface, kids can explore the wonders of the garden using time-lapse photography and a series of Wonder questions. 4-H Children's Garden Wondercasts will engage kids, expand their learning and encourage a sense of wonder and curiosity. The 4-H Children's Garden Wondercast time-lapse photographs let kids carefully explore the garden at a different speed than how they experience the garden everyday. Using the many Wondercast interface tools, kids can discover much more information than in a typical time-lapse. They can pause, reverse, drag back and forth in time, or sit back and watch one day or the entire time-lapse. Kids can see exactly how much time is passing by looking at the clock or the calendar. Weather information is also provided in the Wondercast interface. Kids can see daily high and low temperatures, rainfall and the amount of wind each day. Using this weather information, kids can explore relationships between the changes they observe in the Wondercast photos and how those changes may be related to changes in the weather. Each Wondercast time-lapse also includes 10 scientist questions. Kids earn scientist points for each correct answer. These questions were designed for kids who are playing the Wondercast on their own. They help focus attention on how to use the interface and the kinds of information and relationships that can be discovered in a 4-H Children's Garden Wondercast. For kids (and teachers) using Wondercasts as part of classroom explorations, written questions and answer sheets are available. In addition, each of the Wondercasts and questions are linked to State and National Science standards. If a teacher or parent is present, kids can be encouraged to ask their own questions. By carefully exploring Wondercasts, kids can engage in their own science discoveries. They will have new questions, explore the Wondercast to discover the answers and explore how weather changes might be related to their questions. In this way, Wondercasts become powerful learning experiences that will encourage kids to wonder and look more closely at the amazing changes that occur around them everyday. Parents and teachers can quickly view the HELP and QUESTIONS for each of the four fall wondercasts without actually going through the timelapse by clicking on the links below: As kids and adults work with the 4-H Children's Garden Wondercasts, let us know about your explorations. When you come up with interesting Wondercast questions and answers, or if you invent interesting ways to teach with using the 4-H Children's Garden Wondercast, please email us! Send email to “Dr. Norm” Lownds, lownds@msu.edu.
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