I am collaborating with our excellent Kindergarten team of teachers to prepare an assessment for their students. The students will use Educreations on the iPad to draw and voice their understanding of the water cycle. They are experienced in screencasting.

We will provide three levels of scaffolding for this project by inserting blank images of the water cycle into Educreations. The first level of support will be the image below that the teachers use in class so the students are familiar with it. The words describing each stage of the cycle are blanked out, which should prompt the students to remember from their classroom lessons.

Level 1 Cycle

The second image provides less support leaving it up to students to draw arrows and provide precipitation. The image will be new to the students.

Level 2

The third level of scaffolding will be not to have an image, thus leaving the students with a blank canvas to draw in their understanding of land, water, and atmosphere. We have a few weeks of lessons until the students make their thinking visible. I will then post a new post to share examples of their work.