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Post by Steve Gibbs on Jan 19, 2010 13:29:08 GMT -5
A semester-long project in this course is to design a tech-based lesson plan with rubrics and standards.
What lesson plan will you design? Give as many details as you can. If you are unsure, describe your tentative choice.
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Post by Lauren Nourse on Mar 4, 2010 22:08:11 GMT -5
Lesson Plan: I would like to take a project done with traditional library research and expand the presentation component to be tech oriented. Students will pick an element and research that element with the focus on how to sell that element to their classmates. I plan to use the library media center for research and the computer lab to help students create their presentations using power point or another site if I learn of a good option in this class. Students can also create a movie or another type of advertising piece. Students will have to stretch beyond the usual data for the element to research and convey how and why this element is useful and why might someone want to own it.
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Post by Steve Gibbs on Mar 6, 2010 15:41:32 GMT -5
to Lauren: So students will do paper/book/magazine based research, then present digitally? Good. I'm glad we are reminding students of the many earthbound paper-based resources. I hope you will include online search options for scholarly texts like ERIC and Google Scholar and InfoTrac if you have access to that.
If you created a portal of online research sources, I would likely steal it from you and use it myself in future classes - if you would allow me...
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Post by megan on Mar 6, 2010 20:20:40 GMT -5
I am not 100% sure what I will do. We now have document cameras and just got 6 Flip video cameras, so I'm trying to think of something that would use one or both of them. In social studies, we're heading into the Revolutionary War, so I am considering having the students research a specific cause of the war and/or a battle and do some sort of reenactment or presentation including specific details/people. In science we are studying the human body, so maybe there is something that I can do there. Still pondering...
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Post by Lauren Nourse on Mar 6, 2010 20:40:22 GMT -5
I definitely will have a online research portion - however I definitely DON'T want it to be 100% online based. Whenever I allow internet research I have found that I have an almost impossible time keeping them from just copying and pasting information into their presentation. Winds up to be pretty boring.
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Post by Jeff Jones on Mar 7, 2010 22:44:24 GMT -5
I might want to try to tie in my big project idea with the tech lesson. What if I had students create multimedia presentations on content that has been covered in class. Thinking about this I would have to check the capabilities of the school computer lab to see if they have programs that would allow music/ images/ video, etc to be combined. Other than that I'm not sure what the tech lesson might be.  |
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Post by Amy on Mar 8, 2010 21:46:07 GMT -5
I'm thinking about two things but I'm also wondering if you could give some examples because I'm not sure if my lessons will be "techie" enough. One is to have my Civics students run a political campaign and create videos for their presidential candidates and the other is to use the the comix website to have them create political cartoons. I haven't really checked out the website yet but if this site can't do that I'll try to find one that can. Would either of these work?
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Post by brandys on Mar 9, 2010 1:44:37 GMT -5
I am currently creating a SMARTboard lesson using Notebook for our Benicia history unit. In the past we have used a binder that all third grade teachers in the district have put together collaboratively, but I would like to create a more multimedia-filled lesson that will utilize our new technology. I am looking for websites that I can link to within the board lesson and maybe even some videos of the era. Still looking and researching more ideas. . .any suggestions?
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Post by erlyn on Mar 9, 2010 18:56:13 GMT -5
I like Jeff's idea of having students take what they've learned for the semester and present it in multimedia presentation. I think would be great to do!
I already do a research type pf assignment (the Author Study) and I might be able to stretch it out over a semester. (1st assignment - Pick an author and a write about why you chose them and the affect their writing has over your reading choices. 2nd - Research the author - which would be my author study and present it as a powerpoint. 3rd - Do a book project on one of their books and look for website devoted to that particular book or author and share. Anything else I can do? I open to suggestions!
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Post by jeff on Mar 11, 2010 0:56:28 GMT -5
Thi smay be a silly question but are the lesson plan plans expected to be used in class this year? or is the idea to develop a great tech based plan to be use the future?  |
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Post by tbonebusch on Mar 11, 2010 1:08:22 GMT -5
I have a Smart Board based lesson for second graders. They use it to gain experience with word rhythms. I have alot done on the form, check out my wiki page. Click 741 and go from there...
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Post by kellyh on Mar 25, 2010 19:44:25 GMT -5
As a part of our Fourth Grade study of California, I am centering my Tech Unit around the study of the California Missions. After being assigned one of the 21 missions, students will begin research on their mission using both online resources as well as pre-made research packets and other books from the school library. Students will create a fact sheet for their mission, transfer their facts into a graphic organizer, and then use this graphic organizer to write a 3 paragraph research report on their mission. Students will type their reports on an Alpha Smart which they will later connect to a desktop computer to be uploaded. Once their report has been uploaded to a desktop computer in the computer lab, students will begin editing their rough drafts. During our next visit to the computer lab, students will copy and paste their word document of their report to an Apple Works drawing document and format it into one column. This Appleworks drawing document will become the setting of rthem to create their own informational mission brochure. The brochure will be either 2-fold or tri-fold depending on student abilitiy/time. The research report will serve as the main portion of their brochure to give interesting informtion to the reader of the brochure. Next, students will find pictures of their mission to add to their brochure. They will also enter the address of their mission in MapQuest and include the given map in their brochure. Once their brochure is complete, students will print it out to share with their classmates.
I would love to use PowerPoint with my students, however, due to time constraints, and their ability level, it wouldn't be very time-efficient. At my school, students aren't trained in PowerPoint until the fifth grade, therefore I would have to spend a lot of additional time teachng the basics of this program before they could even start their project.
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Post by jhartman on Apr 21, 2010 21:30:09 GMT -5
My tech-based lesson revolves around the WISE project called Hydrogen Fuel Cells. The introductory teaching involves periodic table, chemical bonds, ions and chemical equations. After completing the Hydrogen Fuel Cells project students will complete a Power Point. Students will explain with pictures (graphic organizers and animations) and words the reactants and products of both the hydrogen/oxygen reaction and the gasoline/oxygen reaction. They will explain how the hydrogen/oxygen reaction in the fuel cell is different than the normal hydrogen combustion reaction. Students will also express their opinion about the the environmental issues burning fossil fuels and hydrogen as a fuel source.
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