Accidentally found this website, they have a pretty neat on-line virtual lab for classification that I think maybe we can reference from.


http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078778066/student_view0/chapter1/virtual_lab.html


Just record some ideas I just thought of.

1.  We can make only one video for "transition" between page 3 and page 4, also, the videos should be in a continuous way that more like showing the students around in the museum. On page 3, the speaker stay in the hallway of the museum asking the students to place the new arrival items into different "exhibit halls"; while on page 4, the speaker would walk upstairs and enter the birds exhibition hall to do the main activity to further classify the birds based on a 2-tiered classification.
2. on Page 4, we would provide printable sheet for students to fill out their results, etc. In this way, they can double-check and justify their classifications on Page 6; in addition, teachers can have a copy of the records.
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I'm sure I got more ideas during this Thur's class, and I'll catch up more for this post.


Next Thur. is Thanksgiving, so between now and then, I will start to compose the scripts for page 3 video. Cathy is in charge of script on page 4 video. Denice will go test the 4th graders in her husband's class to see the possible ways this age may classify the birds. (We took some pretty nice pictures this Thur in the learning lab located at the basement of the museum. The girl showed us around is very pretty by the way. :P But none of us know her name. LOL)