Technology in Lesson Idea

I plan to use a powerpoint and math template with my students to help them to review adding and subtracting large numbers. The way I am planing to do this is to play a game, Math Jeopardy, where the students are given a question that they need to solve. If they students get the question correct then they get to move on in playing the game. The goal is to answer 10 questions correctly and get to the end of the path before without making any mistakes. If the students get the question wrong then they have to go on a side road which explains how to correctly solve the problem. Then they get to try and solve the same problem again. This will help them to understand how to carry numbers into the next place value and how to borrow from another place value. Because it is a review they will not need as much instruction at the beginning and so I might just model a few examples of adding and subtracting large numbers on the board.

Lesson using Technology

I think that I would use the a digital story board to help teach the students how to sort and classify objects using more than one attribute. I could do this by giving the students different objects that they will need to sort. Then I would help them come up with the different categories that the objects could go into. We would work together to write a story about each object and how we know that it relates to another one and therefore it must go into the same category or how they are different and must go into different categories. This story could be a true one that happened in my own life. For example, it could be objects in my room and how I organized them within my room. After the students and I have finish writing a story about where all the objects should go and how we know they are in the right stop, then we would draw pictures of the objects. These pictures could be the ones that we could use in the digital story board. Each student could then do a similar story of their own about all the objects in their room and how they would sort and classify the objects into categories that were similar with others.

Technology Inventory

Currently, I am participating in my first cohort experience. The school that I am at is called East Meadows in the Nebo District in Spanish Fork. I am in a 3rd grade classroom where I am proud to say that technology is used often. In the few days that I have been in the classroom, I have been able to discover many ways that technology is used within a classroom and what all is available in the school.

The school provides all the classrooms with an audio enhancement so that the teachers do not have to worry about students being able to hear them. This is a great device that I believe should be in every elementary classroom. Also, the school has two computer labs that have over 30 computers each were the students can go as a class to review or study any subject. These computer labs are available to all classes as long as they are signed up for in enough time. Additionally, the upper grades have a few computers in their classrooms. The school is planning to put in another computer lab just for the sixth grade so that the other ones will be more available. The children go to the computer labs a few times a we to help them on many of the topics that they are learning. In addition to the computers, this school also has VCR and DVD, document cameras, digital cameras, and video cameras that came be checked out. Lastly, there is one smartboard that is shared in the school.

I was shocked to see how much technology was available but extremely happy to see that the teachers take advantage of the technology in most of their lessons. My school, East Meadows Elementary School, is a new school that place a great portion of their budget on technological advances.

Virtual Tour Link

Here is my Virtual Tour Link.

TPACK for Virtual Tour

Social Studies Core Corriculum for 6th Grade:

Standard 1
Students will understand how ancient civilizations developed and how they contributed to the current state of the world.

Objective 1 Explain why physical geography affected the development of early civilizations

a. Identify the major physical features of the regions where ancient civilizations flourished.

Content: The content that I will be to view and discover four different ruins and the cultures that built them. The students will learn about the Roman, Mayan, Egyptian, and Chinese civilization and how these different cultures contributed to the world we know today. The students will be able to compare and contrast the information that they learned about each particular ruin and the culture behind it.

Pedagogy: The activity will have to be presented in a way that will be helpful to the students' learning. I believe that this can be achieved by having the children study one group of ruins at a time. Once the students have gained an understanding of all the four ruins then we could compare and contrast them so they will not confuse which information goes to what ruin. Also, in order to make the activities more meaningful I will try to focus the lesson on the students by asking if they have been to these ruins, if they would like to go, what they think they would find there, etc

Technology: The Technology that I will be using in the lesson is Google Earth and the Internet to go to these websites:

http://www.enjoyguatemala.com/ruins.htm, http://www.italylink.com/woi/buildings/colosseum.htm,

http://www.eyelid.co.uk/pyramid3.htm,

and http://geography.about.com/od/specificplacesofinterest/a/greatwall.htm

These websites will help the children answer the questions that they are give about the ruins and their civilizations. These technologies will help the children gain knowledge and understanding of where the ruins are around the world.

Virtual Tour Plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Tikal, Guatemala	The students will be asked to go to this website: http://www.enjoyguatemala.com/ruins.htm and answer some questions about the Mayan Ruins by reading the article. Then after looking at all the other ruins the students will compare and contrast the four different ruins.	A picture of the Mayan ruins in Tikal, Guatemala
2.Rome, Italy	The students will be asked to go to this website: http://www.italylink.com/woi/buildings/colosseum.html and answer some questions about the Colosseum by reading the article. Then after looking at all the other ruins the students will compare and contrast the four different ruins.	A picture of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy
3.Giza, Egypt	The students will be asked to go to this website: http://www.eyelid.co.uk/pyramid3.htm and answer some questions about the Pyramids of Giza by reading the article. Then after looking at all the other ruins the students will compare and contrast the four different ruins.	A picture of the Pyramids of Giza in Giza, Egypt
4.Northern China	The students will be asked to go to this website: http://geography.about.com/od/specificplacesofinterest/a/greatwall.htm and answer some questions about the Great Wall of China by reading the article. Then after looking at all the other ruins the students will compare and contrast the four different ruins.	A Picture of the Great Wall of China in Northern China
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	I am going to use an image overlay in my Virtual Tour Plan. The pictures will be of the different ruins that we are discussing and will be placed on their location on the globe. That way when the students are looking for where to go in the tour, they will be able to easily locate the four areas.

Boa Constrictor