each group will have a digital camera

each group will have a laptop computer and a microphone

Students will discuss questioning and look at the Jamie McKenzie tool box to learn types of  questions. (How, what, why questions) http://fno.org/oct97/question.html

Interview scripts will be written collaboratively and will be rehearsed  out loud to the other members of the group.(Sixth graders should create a questionaire before they leave the library to interview the children.)

Groups will interview younger children to ask what they wonder about  - sample items could include:

Sixth graders will record movies of the younger children telling what they are curious about. They will  have a practice session before the actual  recording with the camera or microphone.

Sixth graders will record the interview between the sixth grader and the younger child

Sixth graders may use Audacity to record asking the question and the response

Include photos and movies of the  younger children

Include audio clips

Create new music using Garage Band on the Macintosh computer to use as  an introduction or go to SFS kids and create music in http://www.sfskids.org/templates/musicLabF.asp?pageid=14

Locate books in the library collection and insert the cover into the movie maker

try Animoto to upload pictures

Create a Wordle

learn to print screen shots of a computer screen of a successful web search that helps answer the student question; paste the screen shot to a powerpoint slide and save the slide as a jPeg. Insert into the moviemaker.

document with more pictures, movies and audio clips

Insert these into the movie maker

experiment with Smart Notebook drawing tools to make transition or title slides