2nd grade scientist

I would like to use blogs with 2nd grade science students.  The blogs will be used to make accountable talk discussions about our once a week science explorations about what is going to happen in the in our experiments and how they might be able to make additions or changes or new aha's before we begin coming to cooperatively learn and  create a hypothesis .  I also feel that this is a good way to help young students build their vocabulary used for scientific purposes and learn to work together with their multiple intelligences.

The learning theory used with the blogs will be the constructivist approach because Constructivism works well in information literacy instruction settings for several reasons.   The cognitive/constructivist model helps the learner “own” the material through active involvement, emphasizes collaborative learning, and allows for differing hypotheses that encourages development of a learning community.  Information literacy skills, like conducting searches or evaluating web documents, all lend themselves to learning that depends on cognitive activity, on thinking about discrete steps in a process, on brainstorming trial answers to a series of questions, and on sharing and comparing those trial answers to discover the best outcome or the most satisfactory information solution.   

The blogs will build the learning communities that in the real world causes companies to rise up to success.  The students will journal and use a hands-on activity(experiments) with computers.

The major issues to take in to account  will be time constraints testing is the major force in my district (reading is the key) so this is an if then situation each day,  Lack of computers to relate to do a blog.  Lack of student knowledge of what a blog is and how to use it. 

I plan on giving my all to the task so that my students will see the new world of computers and science as a team to success.