eMaze Parts of plants

The Major Parts of Plants for kindergartners! 



UEN:
Standard 4 Life Science. Students will gain an understanding of Life Science through the study of changes in organisms over time and the nature of living things. Objective 2 Describe the parts of living things b. Identify major parts of plants, e.g., roots, stem, leaf, flower, trunk, branches.

Education Technology:

Standard 8 Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem-solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities. (5, 6)

ISTE:
Knowledge Constructor, Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.

The tool that I chose to use was eMaze, it was a fun way to put a presentation together. This is a great tool to use if you don’t just want to do a regular powerpoint.  It was relatively quick and easy to put together.  eMaze will be a resource that I use in the future and in my future classrooms.  It is a funner way to present information then a powerpoint.  The backgrounds and templates that eMaze offers are great.  

The pros of this tool are that it is a great alternative to powerpoint.  It is also very easy to use and put all together.  The templates that eMaze offers are great because you can add in the information that you need in the different templates that they have which makes it so much easier to put the whole presentation together.  The backgrounds that they offer were great as well, they have many different styles and pictures to choose from that would be relevant to your subject and also look great while presenting.

The cons to this tool are that on some of the backgrounds that you can choose from, like the chalkboard one that I chose, you have to find pictures that don’t have any type of colored background or else the pictures would look funny and out of place.  

I will use this tool in my classroom to present all different types of information, it would be useful for any subject.  It is also similar to a powerpoint, but just different enough that it is new and exciting for the students.  It is also a different way to quiz because you can add in questions and you can have students answer those, which I liked.

My students can use this tool to create their own presentation, it is fun and easy.  I like how easy it is to make a nice and clean looking presentation because of the templates and I think that that would be useful to my students as well.  They can make presentations with their own pictures, videos, questions. It would be a great tool for students to use.