Julie's Map Builder

I would use map builder for a lesson on geography or history lesson. Students could start their geography lesson by building their own map builder with all the places they have visited and get a visual idea of how close different states and cities are. They can then take map builder further into a history lesson and locate different historical places and in the description part write a small memo on what went on their. Students can focus on a few states and find historical events that went on in their states and then each student can share their findings with the rest of the class, just by clicking on their city and reading the description part about it.

Bloomington IN

Julie Reflection 7

3 Lesson Plan Ideas

Starting a Business: Excel

Target Audience- Grades 3-6

Big Idea- Students will be using excel to create the design of their store while also calculating their sales. They need to come up with 5 items they would like to sell in their store and give each item a price using these prices, $5, $10, $25, $50,$100.
In this lesson, students will randomly draw numbers that reflect their sales of a particular item for the day. Students will use Excel formulas to calculate sales totals, then create a graph to display their sales results. This lesson will be integrating Math and Technology.

Goal- Students will be working on their business. The objective of today’s lesson is that students will complete their spreadsheet and calculate their daily sales. Students will also learn how to create a graph that visually displays their results.

Content Standards- NETS Standards Addressed
Basic operations and concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
Students are proficient in the use of technology.

Social, ethical, and human issues
Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.

Technology productivity tools
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.

Life Cycle of The Monarch Butterfly

Target Audience: 3rd grade

Big Idea: In this lesson, students will be connecting science with technology. They will learn about the life cycle of the Butterfly using the online resources I provided them and any other additional links. They will then be using Kidspiration2 to create their own life cycle of the monarch butterfly.

Goal: Students will create a picture representing the life cycle of the Monarch Butterfly using the software Kidspiration2

Content Standards: ISTE NETS-S Standards Addressed
1. Technology productivity tools
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
2. Basic operations and concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
Students are proficient in the use of technology.

Resources:
http://www.midwayisd.org/etrip/third/Science/butterfly/lifecycle.htm

Additional Resources/Websites: Where do Butterflies come from?http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/butterfly/
Life Cycle of a Froghttp://www.kie.berkeley.edu/ned/glossary/lifecycle/lifecycledef.html

Creating your own webpage: Wikipedia and Internet Research

Target Audience: 5-6

Big Idea: In this lesson, students will be given a topic to research. They will then look on Wikipedia to see if anyone has researched their topic yet. Once they find it or don’t, they will have the option to revise someone else’s webpage or create their own, with the information they have researched. This lesson integrates technology, language arts, history and/or science.

Goal: Students will be able to create a webpage using Wikipedia

Content Standards: ISTE NETS-S Standards Addressed
3. Technology productivity tools
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
4. Basic operations and concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
Students are proficient in the use of technology.

Katie Reflection 7

Target Audience: 1-2 grade Science class

Overall Goal of the lesson:
To show children an animal in it’s natural habitat.
To encourage research via the internet.

Indiana Content Standards Addressed:
1.1.1 Observe, describe, draw, and sort objects carefully to learn about them.
1.1.2 Investigate and make observations to seek answers to questions about the world, such as “In what ways do animals move?”

Possible Resources:
http://www.tramline.com/tours/sci/sharks/_tourlaunch1.htm

Target Audience: 1-2 grade Science class

Overall Goal of the lesson:

• Students are introduced to the importance of water for survival.
• Students are introduced to the water cycle.
• Students will learn about groundwater aquifers.
• Students will learn how they can actively participate in protecting drinking water.

Indiana Content Standards Addressed:
1.3.1 Recognize and explain that water can be a liquid or a solid and can go back and forth from one form to the other. Investigate by observing that if water is turned into ice and then the ice is allowed to melt, the amount of water is the same as it was before freezing.
1.3.3 Investigate by observing and also measuring that the sun warms the land, air, and water.

Possible Resources:
http://www.spokaneaquifer.org/kids/vfte/

Target Audience: 1-2 grade Science class

Overall Goal of the lesson:

• Students should be able to construct patterns that have a maximum of 5 elements in the repeater.
• Students should be able to predict what comes next in a pattern that has between 3-5 elements in its repeater.

Indiana Content Standards Addressed:
1.4.3- Classify and sort familiar plane and solid objects by position, shape, size, or roundness, and other attributes. Explain the rules used.

Possible Resources:
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_184_g_1_t_1.html

All about Triangles!
5th grade, Math class

Geometry-Standard 4
5.4.2 Identify, describe, draw, and classify triangles as equilateral*, isosceles*, scalene*, right*, acute*,obtuse*, and equiangular*.

Technology Standard: F.4.1 Conduct research and inquiry on self-selected or assigned topics, issues, or problems and use an appropriate form to communicate their findings.

Have the students draw and create their own triangles on Microsoft Paint
Introduce above vocabulary words
Have the students use the internet to find the definitions of these triangles...dictionary.com, google, wikipedia ect.
Have the students create these specific types of triangles labeling each type then printing
class discussion follows
Materials: Computer, World Wide Web, Microsoft paint, printers

Learning the 50 States
5-8th grade
Technology Standard:
E.4.1 Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information
Standards:
Social Studies Standard:
A.4.2 Locate on a map or globe physical features such as continents, oceans, mountain ranges, and land forms, natural features such as resources, flora, and fauna; and human features such as cities, states, and national borders

Objective: Students will increase their knowledge of the United States by conducting specific online research.

-Assign each student a state to research
-Open Internet browser and in the address bar type: http://www.50states.com
-Click on the folder for chosen state. Highlight, Copy and Paste information about the state, including pictures into the Word document for later use in the PowerPoint presentation
-use powerpoint slides to add information to
-From here students can add slides, change background, add slide transitions and add custom animations


ABC in Word
K-2nd grade
Language Arts
Word Processing
Objective:
Students will be able to create a word-processed document with letters of the alphabet. Students will format the letters using options from the “toolbar”.
Academic Standards:
Language Arts
C.4.2 Listen to and comprehend oral communications.
E.4.1 Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information.
Technology
B.4.6 Follow a set of instructions to produce a product using appropriate tools and materials.
-Teacher opens up the Word document and demonstrates typing, erasing, backspacing, saving, moving the curson, using backspace versus delete button, pressing enter, using the shift key, changing color ect.
-Activity follows using letters...Aa Bb Cc etc.

Lesson Plan Ideas

I found three different lesson plans that integrate technology. The first two are math lessons and the third one is a science lesson.

Write a Number Story

Grades: K-2

Brief Description

Students use AppleWorks or Office to write and illustrate a number story. Each student’s work is then added to a Keynote or PowerPoint show and displayed for the class (or parents!) to see and share.

Objectives

Students use AppleWorks or Office to write and illustrate a number story. Each student's work is then added to a Keynote or PowerPoint show and displayed for the class (or parents!) to see and share.

Complete a Pattern

To complete this activity:

1. Describe the sequence of colors starting from the upper left portion of the workspace.

Patterns are things that repeat. Recognizing a pattern makes description and problem solving more efficient.

2. When you recognize a pattern, you can complete the puzzle by coloring the buttons with question marks. To color those buttons, click on the button and then click on the appropriate color.

Can you think of more than one way to describe the pattern you observe?

3. Complete the color pattern and check your solution by clicking on the check button.

How might you describe the color pattern in the fewest number of words or letters?

Letters or words that indicate repetition are often used to shorten descriptions.

This lesson is done on the computer with computer generated color patters.

An Eye on Science

The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate student's knowledge of the human eye and its parts. Before this project, children need to be taught about the human eye, it's functions, and it's parts through books, posters, videos, and filmstrips. Before children dissect a sheep's eye under adult guidance, the teacher and media specialist will model, using Kid Pix Studio, drawing and labeling a cross-section of the human eye. Parts should be colored and labeled. Each drawing will be narrated and can be combined to create a Kid Pix Studio Slideshow.

Materials:

Any computer, MAC or IBM, Kid Pix Studio, nonfiction books and posters about vision, eyes, sight and healthy habits that are age appropriate and at different reading levels.

Also: Eye model, art makers, paper, and pencils. Microphones may be necessary to record on some computers.

Bridget King Reflection #6

http://www.edutopia.org/images/movies/storyofmoviess.jpg

The video I watched was called “The story of movies” and it dealt with integrating movies and the making of movies into other lessons. They did science experiments with lighting and all kinds of other things that dealt with movie making. It all came about because students told their teachers that they believed everything they saw in t.v. and movies and that was their main source of information about things. So the teachers really wanted to explore that.
What technology was used in the video?
The technologies used in the video were projectors and projector screens. They also used dvd players and t.v.’s.
The technology used in this lesson was teacher-centered (meaning the teacher, not the students, utilized the technology), or student-centered? Why?
The technology used was definitely teacher-centered. The students did not get to use any of the technology hands on, unless they were at home watching a movie. The teachers used the projects, dvd players, and t.v.’s.
Do you agree that the technology makes the lesson more engaging? Why or why not?
Yes the technology made the lesson. Without being able to see the movies there would be nothing to analyze.
Think about what kind of preparations that teacher might need to make to implement this lesson. What would the teacher need to think about, both from a technological standpoint and a pedagogical standpoint?
The teacher would need to find out if the technologies they needed were available to them. They would need to figure out what it was that they wanted to use and see if it would work in the classroom. The teacher would need to check everything to make sure that it worked and would be ready to go for that class.
What strategies would you use to assess student performance in the video?
The students really seemed engaged in what they were doing and anxious to learn. I could not assess their performance just from the short video I saw, but they all did really well with what was given to them.

What are the advantages of using the technology in the lesson?
The advantages are being able to actually see the movie and see what it is that is being discussed. The students got to sit in the comfort of their classroom and watch a movie or a movie clip and discuss what was going on with it.

What challenges would the teacher and students face when integrating the technology in learning and teaching?
Technology isn’t always reliable. It can easily be broken or not work, and in that case every teacher needs a back-up plan. It wouldn’t be very helpful to try and learn about movies without being able to actually see them.