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I adapted a first grade science lesson from the GADOE website. This lesson is intended for a class of kindergarten, first, and second grade SWD. The anchor standard for the lesson is S1L1. Students will investigate the characteristics and basic needs of plants and animals. The lesson will last four to six weeks depending on the needs of the students. The three technology tools I would like to use are: 1) Blogging on a class Weebly, 2) Assessments via Socrative.com, and 3) Using Flickr to embed photos of plants and animals within at least blogs. Finally, the students will create individual posters that focuses on one plant and one animal of their choosing. The information gained from the posters will result in a class PowerPoint collaboration featuring the plants and animals highlighted in the students' posters.
I am adding the link below because I am having difficulty embedding my screencast: It is also incase my hyperlink doesn't work. http://www.screencast.com/t/31ActYJVEry
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Cindy Segraves
7/16/2014 10:06:07
Shanyon,
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7/19/2014 13:57:02
Hey Cindy,
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Kristen Cooper
7/17/2014 00:38:54
Shanyon,
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7/19/2014 14:00:57
Hey Kristen,
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Mary Caroline Smith
7/17/2014 03:43:13
I enjoyed watching your screencast about plants and animals. The unit seems very thought out and appropriate for 1st grade. I really liked the final poster project. Have you ever used the website called Tagxedo (www.tagxedo.com) ? It is the same concept as Wordle (www.wordle.net) , but the word clouds have specific shapes (such as plants and animals). This may be another idea you could do throughout the unit or as an alternative culminating assignment. Great job with the lesson! I definitely think your students will learn a lot and enjoy completing it!
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7/19/2014 14:06:45
Hey Mary (Mary Caroline),
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Michele
7/18/2014 05:26:39
I liked that you used student blogging as a way to share something they’ve learned during the unit once a week. I’m sure that will be an engaging way to get your students writing. Who will be their blog audience that will be commenting on their posts? I know an under-4-minute screencast isn’t enough time to give all the information about your project, but I teach K, so I’m genuinely curious about this. I love that you’re introducing your young students to Flickr and teaching them how to embed photos in their blog post (and using Creative Commons). How will you be having them post attribution for the pictures in their blogs? (I’m thinking paste the URL, but wondering if you have another idea beyond the basic that I’ve come up with.) Will the student posters be digital or paper? Glogster might be a good tool to use to make a digital poster and maybe students could have a choice. I liked that you had students collaboratively create a presentation based on the information on their posters. It would be cool to share that presentation with other classes who have those same standards; knowing they’d be making a presentation to help their peers learn the same information would probably be very engaging. You have a nice project here; thanks for sharing!
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7/19/2014 14:16:47
Hey Michele,
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Rakesh Modi
7/22/2014 02:23:42
Hi Shanyon,
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7/26/2014 06:33:46
Thank you for feedback. I do need to create a model for my students and I agree that providing examples, visual or otherwise, is a best practice that I sometimes over look. Thanks for bringing it back to my memory.
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7/26/2014 06:37:02
Hey Rakesh,
Jill Lyn Rooks
7/24/2014 14:48:36
I like that you didn’t reinvent the wheel and instead adapted something created by the state. I also like that you were very specific in your diverse group of students, not only of different grade levels, but also several Students with Disabilities –many with different needs.
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7/26/2014 06:43:26
Hey Jill,
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