Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Lesson Plans that Integrate Literacy and Technolgoy

Lesson One: Books to Briefs
The lesson was slightly changed by having students record their design process discussion onto ipods that were placed in the middle of the groups. These discussions were transferred to a podcast where we would ideally have students listen to their discussions and reflect on their ideas. If time permitted, students would have video taped their designs in motion and reflected on those as well. The reflections would include the overall design process and whether or not those designs correlate with the problem presented in the story. 







The book that was read to students.


The materials students were able to use for their designs.


An example of a group's final project: A car that moved by releasing the balloons attached to it, therefore creating a propulsion system. The car could also be converted into a boat!


Lesson Two: Phonemic Awareness
Even though this is written for a first grade classroom, I have witnessed struggling readers in my fourth grade classroom who have difficulty with phonemic awareness. Students use Kidspiration to analyze the phonemes in groups of words. I think this would be an effective lesson for students to complete during a Guided Reading time. 



This lesson allows students to analyze autobiographic information they read. Students create a "Bio-cube" about the person they read about. This Bio-cube has students find the person's name, time period in which they lived, where they lived, their personal background, personality traits, their significance to society, biggest obstacle they faced, and an important quote said by the person. 


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