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Whaling (Virtual Tour) Date: July 4, 2011

The major benefits to whaling was the whale oil. It helped to make candles and also to make light. It was cheap and helped to excel the industrial movement. The downside to whaling was the killing of the whales. It perhaps made the whales an endangered species. Instead of the whalers waiting for the whales to come ashore, they began to hunt whales and made the species endangered. I know that this was a natural resources but it seems cruel to animals.

I like the virtual tours. One of the field trips that I am interested in for my class will be: Lewis and Clark and the field trip about pioneers. In reading, we study about the pioneers and their way of living. This would be a nice end to the lesson. The students could see what a virtual field trip looks like and reflect in thier journals.

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CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology) Reflection Date: July, 2011 In completing the learning styles survey, it was confirmed that I am a visual learning. I need to see examples of what is being taught. Some of the suggestions that were given for visual learners: use flash cards, and read aloud information to remember what was taught. The overall impression of the CAST website would be overwhelming. There is so much information that it would take days to go through it all. I learned from the book "Teaching Every Student", that the brain works in three areas: recognition, strategic, and affective.

The new tools I learned for differentiating instruction was the digital books. You can read the books for the students on different reading levels into a digital book. I enjoyed the online reading survey. I want my sons to take it so that I can know how they learn. I think that I would use the CAST website a lot. It gives me new ideas to differentiate learning. It would be great if CAST could come to our school for professional development.