Today we skyped with Julie Owen.
She is a civil engineer in California. A civil engineer designs and constucts public works like schools, subways, water treatment plants, and even hospitals!
It's not easy to be an engineer. You have to study a lot of math and science. Julie imagined math and science as a puzzle, and that's how she decided that she wanted to be a civil engineer. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot!
Maybe we can Skype with her again someday.
During our Skype session today, some of the students in 4D had "Skype Jobs" (an idea from Silvia Tolisano, author and technology integration facilitator). One student monitored the elapsed time of our Skype call: 46 min.
One student charted our call on Google Earth.
One student was our Videographer and recorded the event on our Flip camera.
Another student was our Photographer and took photos.
One student wrote math word problems using data we learned on our call.
Another student blogged about the event: read her post above!
Everyone posted questions and responses on Today's Meet. Fifth grade joined us, too, so it was a great learning day!
A class in Pennsylvania also joined us on this Skype call.
4D thanks our wonderful technology integration specialist Mrs. Pryor for her help in arranging the visit.
4D strives to be a "globally connected" classroom!