How 'bout them apples?

All of our second grade girls are participating in an online collaborative project called, "How 'bout them apples?". We used a brainstorming technique called K-W-L to decide what we already "Know" about apples and then "What we want to learn" about them. The girls utilized several websites that are bookmarked at http://www.delicious.com/smsresources or www.delicious.com/smsgrade2 to write down interesting facts about apples that they are recording on chart paper in their classrooms. We will meet next week to share our facts (what we "Learned") and will post a few of them on a "voicethread" that is part of the project. I have also added "an assignment" to Renzulli Learning (http://renzullilearning.com/StudentLogin.aspx) about apples for those students still "hungry for information" (this is not really an assignment, but rather something that they can pursue if they would like to!). The Renzulli assignment can be accessed through the girls' inboxes on the homepage right after they log-in.