Inspiration

Inspiration would be a really way to make a food web, a diagram about the functions of a cell, an evolutionary tree, or a way to diagram population size challenges. When I try to relate inspiration to my content is when I realize that inspiration would be really useful for science.

The food web idea I got was from this: http://www.inspiration.com/lessonplans/inspiration#science-lesson-plans

The original idea was to make a food web using inspiration, which I think would be a great idea because it is easy to keep it neat and organized. Food webs are useful to look at the transfer of energy between organisms in an ecosystem. If I had this technology, I would use it in my classroom. However, this use of this technology is only a substitution on the SAMR scale because it is replacing doing this on pen and paper.

The second idea that I like would be using Inspiration to make an evolutionary tree. This was an original idea that was inspired by the idea from the link above. Evolutionary trees are useful to show common ancestors of the species we have today, they are even helpful for looking at our evolutionary history.With the arrange button on inspiration, it is easy to make it look like an evolutionary tree branching from a single origin.If I had this technology, I would use it in my classroom. Again, use of this technology is only a substitution on the SAMR scale because it is only replacing pen and paper.