Learners

This lesson is designed for the fourth grade social studies area of study, but it involves other curriculum areas also.  It could be adapted to higher grades which are studying the desert environment.   For older students there may be more advanced and detailed research.  Older students would probably not need a template to design the Virtual Desert Museum and could be given a choice of software programs to design the Museum.
 

Prior Skills needed:
The students should be familiar with the KWL research method which involves answering three questions.
*What do I Know?
*What do I Want to know?
*What have I Learned?

Knowledge of Hyperstudio would  be beneficial, but not necessary.  The template will be setup by the teacher, so the children will be designing and placing text on the Hyperstudio cards.