Tech+Rich+Instruction

Tech Rich Instruction



>> Unit Title //Geology//
 * Instructional Context
 * Grade Level 3rd Grade
 * Content Area/Course //Science//
 * Length of Unit //2 weeks//
 * Time of Year/Month //(end Sept - October)//
 * Instructional Activities and Samples
 * The students will use Photobooth, digital cameras, a website to learn characteristics for given rocks, and use Power Point to create a brochure using the student’s knowledge and photos taken.
 * Read pages 25-42 in your science textbook
 * Hear lecture on rocks
 * **Using your digital camera, take photos of 5 rocks to put into the brochure that will be made later. Allow students to play in Photobooth with their photos. The photos should be crisp images so one can see the detail in the rock **
 * **Visit **@http://www.kidsgeo.com/geology-games/rocks-game.php  to take a quiz of different types of rocks given the characteristics of the rock and try to classify your rocks.
 * **Create a brochure on the rocks that was taken pictures of using Power Point with your hypothesis of the types of rock as a lab report attached underneath the photos **
 * [[image:Screen_shot_2011-12-15_at_9.20.49_AM.png width="373" height="302"]][[image:Screen_shot_2011-12-15_at_9.22.04_AM.png]]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Standards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Language Arts, Science

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Science


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">D.4.2 Group and/or classify objects and substances based on the properties of earth materials


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E.4.1 Investigate that earth materials are composed of rocks and soils and correctly use the vocabulary for rocks, minerals, and soils during these investigations

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Language Arts:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E.4.1 Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">ISTE Student Standards
 * ** 1. **** Creativity and Innovation **
 * ** 6. **** Technology Operations and Concepts **

>> Unit Title //Form//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructional Context
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Grade Level //(4th grade)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Area/Course //music//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Length of Unit //(3 weeks)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Time of Year/Month //(end Sept - October)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructional Activities and Samples
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Students will use the Smart board to create different forms of music.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Read pages 5-10 in your music textbook
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hear lecture on form
 * ** Visit **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> [] to download the Smart board program to use
 * ** Using a Smart board, create patterns for different types of forms of music. **

> > > Student Name: · ||   ||
 * || * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Elementary General Music Rubric for Standards & Benchmarks : Form **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Teacher Name: **M G**


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">CATEGORY || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Basic || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Proficient || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Advanced ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Standard 1, Benchmark 2 - Perform Rhythmic Patterns || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student cannot perform pattern without help from the teacher. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student performs the pattern correctly without help from teacher. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student is not only correct, but also performs the pattern fluently. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Standard 4, Benchmark 2 - Describe musical events || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student is unable to identify musical events (such as form or climax) in a piece of music. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student uses age appropriate musical vocabulary to describe the form and events in a piece of music. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student uses musical vocabulary to compare/contrast musical events of different genres. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Standard 3 - Create Music || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student has great trouble composing or improvising music, and needs much help from the teacher. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Given a framework, student can compose or improvise music and perform it correctly. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student is able to write or improvise creative pieces of music in various styles showing creativity above most students. ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Standards Music, Language Arts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Standards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repitoire of music.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Listening tom analyzing and describing music
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E.4.1 Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">ISTE Student Standards
 * ** 1. **** Creativity and Innovation **
 * ** 2. **** Communication and Collaboration **

>> Unit Title //Spelling//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructional Context
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Grade Level //2nd grade//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Area/Course //Language Arts//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Length of Unit //(3 weeks)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Time of Year/Month //(end Sept - October)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructional Activities and Samples
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Students will create a Prezi to help with spelling words and vocabulary building.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Review the unit spelling list
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Hear lecture on spelling words
 * ** Create a slideshow using a Prezi to review the spelling words. Use 10 out of the 30 to create something similar to the Prezi below. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none;">[[image:Screen_shot_2011-12-15_at_9.17.57_AM.png link="@http://prezi.com/bfhgi78u9roi/first-grade/"]]


 * || === Multimedia Project : Prezi ===

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Teacher Name: **M G**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Student Name: ||  ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">CATEGORY || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Organization || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content is logically organized for the most part. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sources || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. All documented in desired format. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. Most documented in desired format. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Source information collected for graphics, facts and quotes, but not documented in desired format. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Very little or no source information was collected. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Attractiveness || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentaion content. ||


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Standards Language Arts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Standards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E.4.1 Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E.4.5 Analyze and edit media work as appropriate to audience and purpose.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">D.4.1 Develop their vocabulary of words, phrases, and idioms as a means of improving communication.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">ISTE Student Standards
 * ** 1. **** Creativity and Innovation **
 * ** 2. **** Communication and Collaboration **
 * ** 2. **** Communication and Collaboration **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructional Context
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Grade Level //4th Grade//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Area/Course //Language Arts//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Time of Year/Month //First week//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructional Activities and Samples
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Students will take photos of themselves and classmates to create a poster about their friends and themselves as an introductory lesson
 * ** Using your digital camera, take photos of friends, classmates and yourself. Use crisp, cl ****<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">ean and appropriate photos and edit them using Photobooth. Also feel free to use the camera in the computer. **
 * ** Create a ****<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">poster using Power Point **** including your name, what you would like to be when you grow up, your hobbies and what you did this summer. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[image:Screen_shot_2011-12-15_at_9.22.18_AM.png]]

> > > Student Name:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Teacher Name: **M G**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Teacher Name: **M G**

· Making A Poster : All about you
· ||   ||


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">CATEGORY || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Graphics -Clarity || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Graphics are all in focus and the content easily viewed and identified from 6 ft. away. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Most graphics are in focus and the content easily viewed and identified from 6 ft. away. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Most graphics are in focus and the content is easily viewed and identified from 4 ft. away. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Many graphics are not clear or are too small. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Required Elements || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">The poster includes all required elements as well as additional information. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">All required elements are included on the poster. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">All but 1 of the required elements are included on the poster. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Several required elements were missing. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Grammar || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">There are no grammatical mistakes on the poster. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">There is 1 grammatical mistake on the poster. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">There are 2 grammatical mistakes on the poster. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">There are more than 2 grammatical mistakes on the poster. ||

>>> E.4.5 Analyze and edit media work as appropriate to audience and purpose.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Standards Language Arts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Content Standards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E.4.1 Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">E.4.1 Use computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">ISTE Student Standards
 * 1.Creativity and Innovation
 * 2.Communication and Collaboration