Technology Specific Based Lesson Plans
Summary: This two part lesson plan has the objective to teach students the differences between environment and habitats. Additionally students will learn how humans affect the habitats and environments of animals. Students are learning about habitats through studying the puma by using the National Park Service's Park Rangers site. Then students will use their new knowledge of pumas and their habitats to create a comic strip narrative focusing on effectively using dialogue, captions, and pictures.
NETS-T Standard 2: Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments.
Part D: Provide students with multiple (& varied) ..........formative and summative assessment. |
I specifically searched for away to integrate another core curriculum standard to assess the students’ understanding, comprehension and their application of the science curriculum. I specifically wanted to use in away that technology could provide a new angle or approach to that second curriculum standard. This is why I chose to use the Comic Creator as a technology tool to teach students the basics of writing narratives. This is a good introductory way of differentiating the writing elements of dialogue and narration. Additionally it is very structured to help guide students through the writing process and it is also different compared to what student’s are accustomed to when I comes to writing.
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What's for Dinner Tonight?
Summary: Nutrition webquest that leads students through the study of vitamins and minerals. Students are given a challenge to "fill in" for a chief at a restaurant. Students research vitamins and minerals, food myths and healthy reciepes. As the "fill in chief" students get to design advertisments, conduct research and form graphs, and design menus and alter reciepes. The lesson not only focuses on teaching students nutrition, but also writing and math concepts.
NETS-T Standard 2: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Part D: Promote, support, & model deep ..........thinking/creativity |
This lesson is a webquest that specifically takes resources from the internet and combines them with well-rounded projects that utalize on and off computer assessment. Students use resources to learn about health and nutrition and then demonstrate their knowledge through the completion of projects that support creative writing and designing of science experiements.
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Sinking VS Floating
Summary: This lesson plan is all about teaching students how to use online simulators to experience science experiments that they don't have access to in the classroom or in their own homes. Specifically in this lesson plan students will be developing their own testible question and inquiry based experiment to learn more about boyancy on their terms. Students will also be learning how to imput data into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to show their data. Additionally students will be using a class blog to post their discoveries and to comment on the discoveries of their classmates.
NETS-T Standard 1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Part B: Engage students in exploring real-world ............issues and solving authentic problems using digital ............tools and resources |
This lesson meets this standard because it helps students engage in real world situtation through technology. They can authentically address their question and explore possible answers as they use the online resources as both a tool and a guide. Additionally they will be using real world tools such as Excel to learn valable job skills.
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Gravity & Mass
Summary: This lesson plan focuses on a continuation of skills from the previous lesson. It also deals with teaching students how science can be explored using online resources to conduct experiments. Again it also continues to develop the student autonmoy of developing questions and carrying out personalized experiments that answer quesitons that they actually have not that the teacher brainstormed for them. Lastly the lesson focuses on furthering the skills of students in using Microsoft Excel and introduces Microsoft Power Point as a medium to share the inforamtion they have gathered in their experiment.
NETS-T Standard 2: Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Part D: Provide students with multiple and varied .............formative and summative assessments aligned with ...........content and technology standards and use resulting ...........data to inform learning and teaching |
This lesson again uses a different assessment or way of presenting knowledge that is not typical or common. The assessment of student work is based on a slide show presentaiton. Both the students skills in developing the slide show and the actual science within will be taken into account. This alternative form of assessment takes the pressure off students and also gives them the opportunity to learn a new skill.
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Why do pennies look dirty?
Summary: This lesson is actually a make-up lesson for any students who missed class during a live classroom experiment. The online portion contains the lesson layout and instructions and in addition also contains a video where students can view the experiment that they missed. Although we as teachers would have preferred them there at the live demonstration it is important that these students be allowed the opportunity to learn from it the best they can. The lesson includes science journal entries and question forming practice. This lesson was created for a younger grade so the lesson is shorter and requires less written responses than the lessons above.
NETS-T Standard 3: Model Digital Age Work and Learning
Part C: Communicate relevant information and ideas ...........effectively to students, parents, and peers using a ...........variety of digital age media and formats |
This lesson specifcally targets students and parents and keeping them up to date on the current events in the classroom. By providing this resource online parents could assist their student with science at home because of the availabilty of the information by the use of both a classroom website and the wonderful video overview of the lesson.
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Do you want to be a Scientist?
Summary: It is the first day of science and this is the lesson for you. Start your student thinking on what it means to be a scientist and what the real definition of science is. This lesson is a short but great one to measure student growth. The lesson features a short video that follows the scientific process. Students will be recording the jobs of scientist and determining based on that video only if they think that is a job for them. A great extension could include rewatching and participating in the acitvity at the end of the year to see if their opinion has changed.
NETS-T Standard 1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Part A: Promote, support, and model creative and ...........innovative thinking and inventiveness |
This introductory lesson is meant as a catayst to start off a great year in science. By giving students a first look at they scientific process and the job of a scientist they can put themselves in scientist's shoes. This is setting the tone for them to be creative and discover the wonderful things science has to offer.
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INTASC Standards Specific Lesson Plans
Ultimate Utah Road Trip
Summary: Students will be using resources to research the life styles of the Native American tribes that live and have lived in Utah. They are gathering information about one of the five main tribes and then complying the information into a book designed for a vistor to Utah. They are using a stapleless book interactive from ReadWriteThink.org to complete their project.
INTASC Standard 3: Engaging and supporting all students in learning.
Part B: Use research-based instructional strategies to ..........enhance student learning of content. |
It is very important if not essential to use technology based learning in the classroom because of the ever advancing technology that is present in children's lives. To help make technology based learning a productive experience it is important to teach students how to really learn and become engaged in different resources available on the internet. To help students become familiar with research this lesson plan uses specific sites to aid students in learning more about the Native Americans in Utah. More specifically this lessons purpose is to teach students how to find and recognize information inside good resources.
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Two Kinds of Masters
Summary: Students will explore the art of two American artists William Harnett and Juan Gris through an interactive site. The site highlights the genre of still-art and compares William Harnett's realistic still-life painting to Juan Gris' abstract painting. Students then are asked to use and online resource to generate a venn-diagram comparing and contrasting the two artists work. Student then get the chance to find their own still-life subjects and create one realistic representation of the subject and one abstract representation.
INTASC Standard 4: Assessing and evaluating student learning.
Part B: Use multiple sources of formal and informal ...........assessment to verify student progress. |
This lesson plan utalizes the importance of multiple assessments to gage student comprehension. This lesson specifically integrates writing to check student factual fine arts information such as different artists styles. The lesson also uses student art to check for understanding of basic artistic concepts.
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