Hi, there!

This is a peer review of Pod 1’s Interactive Learning Resource Draft on the topic of The Water Cycle. You can find their draft here: https://fog-alpaca-7a7.notion.site/The-Water-Cycle-Unit-4ca902c5cee84ed180933b45d7fd0ff3

Thank you, Zoe, Kathryn, Alecia, Hannah, and Morgan, for sharing your draft!  As someone who wants to be a future elementary school teacher, I find this a valuable and an important topic that elementary students need to have all throughout their life.  Just from opening your notion website I really liked how organized it is, I also liked how your website included a little blurb about each of you and what your contributions to the project were.

I also included a video of your peer review, but below is my peer review of notes and advice

Overview of the resource

I found that the overview of your resource was efficient and explained many of the requirements like your intended audience, how your lessons will be broken up along with the estimated time for each lesson and for the complete unit.  I found that these are important pieces of knowledge to know before reading the rest of the resource, and really liked that you included this.

Perhaps you might consider also adding a concise definition of your topic with 2 different academic sources. I know that this was in the description of the topic that we needed for our blueprint, but I do not think that this is on the rubric for the final learning assignment. However, I do think that if you are able to add it as a link it would help others that are not as educated about the topic with a quick insight about your topic.

Rationale

I really appreciated how you have all your rationales sectioned together it made it easy to follow and I liked how you listed which rationales are in this section so that the reader knows.

Description of learning context

I liked how you included which aspects of the curriculum you meet for your learning context, I think that this helps the reader know that you put a lot of thought into this project and it helps guide the readers to also realize why you choose the learning outcomes.

It seems to me that you might want to include a little bit more of a description of your learning context, just because someone who has skimmed the resource might be unsure of what age group this is intended for or why it is important for this age group. It might also be beneficial to include why your group chooses this age group.  

Learning Outcomes and Assessment  

I thought your layout of the learning outcomes was well done it was clear along with your assessment. I find that your learning outcomes are key and are very well chosen and fit well with the curriculum outline that you provided. I like how you have multiple different ways that you plan on using as assessments for your learning resource so that it ensures that all students understand the topics.

Perhaps you might consider including a final rubric for this learning resource with the weighting and also including which grading scale you are using for your assessments.

Plan for Inclusion

I like how many multiple resources you have available to accommodate for your students. I really enjoyed how you listed collaborative practices that will allow students who need accommodations to not just ask their teachers but also to have them ask for help from their peers.

 It appears to me that you have included accommodations for multiple different groups of accommodations. You might just want to include at the top of your plan for Inclusion which contexts from the Interactive Learning Resource you chose so that it is clear to your reader.

Conclusion

Overall, I found your Interactive Learning Resource was done really well, and looks like it is definitely close to being done! I found your learning resource has a really good design I loved how you had it on a different platform that is interactive and user-friendly for kids which is your learning group. I can definitely tell that your group has put a lot of time into doing this project and I am sure that you will be wonderful teachers one day!