{"id":47,"date":"2014-04-14T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/2014\/04\/14\/4td-wild-animal-research-projec\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:45:24","slug":"4td-wild-animal-research-projec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/2014\/04\/14\/4td-wild-animal-research-projec\/","title":{"rendered":"4TD Wild Animal Research Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.thinglink.me\/api\/image\/510516771178938369\/1024\/10\/scaletowidth#tl-510516771178938369;1043138249\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" class=\"alwaysThinglink\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/\/cdn.thinglink.me\/api\/image\/510516771178938369\/1024\/10\/scaletowidth#tl-510516771178938369;1043138249\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" width=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The students in 4TD have been hard at work creating a class channel of interactive graphics using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinglink.com\/edu\" target=\"_blank\">Thinglink<\/a>, a free and user friendly digital tool. &nbsp;Each student chose a wild animal and researched three categories from the following list of options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Habitat<\/u><\/b>:  Where the animal lives in the world.&nbsp;<b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Food<\/u><\/b>:  What the animal eats and why.  How the animal gets food?<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Babies<\/u><\/b>:  How the animal treat its babies? How long the animal&#8217;s babies stay with them?<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Communication<\/u><\/b>:&nbsp;How the animal communicates with others of its kind? Does the animal use non-verbal communication?<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Protection<\/u><\/b>:  How does the animal protect itself from predators or enemies?  Similarly, does the animal need protection from the environment or people in order to remain a species?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Sleep<\/u><\/b>:  How does the animal sleep?  Does it hibernate?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Body Diagram<\/u><\/b>:  What are the important body parts of the animal that make it different from other animals?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><u>Interesting Facts<\/u><\/b>:  Does the animal have interesting facts that you come across in your research that do not fit into any specific category?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Students were then able to create multiple &#8220;hot spots&#8221; or &#8220;nubs&#8221; on their animal image that launch video, other images and text with the click of a button. &nbsp;Thinglink allows a lot of content to be accessible in small space. &nbsp;Below is a table of contents image that links to each animal studied. &nbsp;We are looking to collaborate with other classrooms and students across the globe studying wild animals. &nbsp;Please take a look at all of their hard work and provide any comments if you have a moment.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\nIn order to create the cover &#8220;table of contents&#8221; as well as pages with multiple images we did a little app smashing using <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/pic-collage\/id448639966?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Pic Collage<\/a>, a great app that allows you to combine photos into a single image collage.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The students in 4TD have been hard at work creating a class channel of interactive graphics using Thinglink, a free and user friendly digital tool. &nbsp;Each student chose a wild animal and researched three categories from the following list of&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/2014\/04\/14\/4td-wild-animal-research-projec\/\">Continue reading <span> 4TD Wild Animal Research Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,34,35],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-grade4","tag-pic-collage","tag-thinglink","","tg-column-two"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 11:02:31","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellesleyps.org\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}