During my water systems unit with my grade 8's this past January, I gave them a choice of activities to demonstrate their learning about the water cycle. One of those options was to write a song about the water cycle.
One of my students really rose to the challenge. She wrote an original song, recorded the guitar and the vocals using Garage Band on her iPad, and then emailed it in. This project met all the criteria and demonstrated understanding. It also exceeded expectations in every possible way. She took ownership, she indulged her creativity, and she demonstrated her learning. And it is amazing.
So I share this, with her permission, because it is too good not to share.
HERE WE GO AGAIN
by Hazelle D.
As I go around the land
It gets hot like desert sand,
I look down and I see
I have lifted off the ground
While I'm floating in the sky,
As invisible little spices
I'm colliding in one big fluff
White as snow, here we go, come on keep floating now
As long as the sun keeps shining
The longer this will go
Land or ocean, I'll be there, waiting for this to start all over
Oh, here we go again
We wait and we wait until the time is right
We're ready to fall there's no time to put up a fight
And we fall, liquid, solid, rain or snow
When we'll hit the ground, neither of us will know
I feel myself reach the ground
We flow throughout and around
We're following the same old plan
We'll run-off into those water lands
As long as the sun keeps shining
The longer this will go
Land or ocean, I'll be there, waiting for this to start all over
Oh, here we go again
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