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=Group One Wiki for Lesson Plan on Integrating Technology=

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**Audience** __ **This Google Earth Technology/Social Studies lesson will be taught to a 4th grade class. The ages of the students range from 9-11 years old. There are 22 students within the class (10 boys and 12 girls). The racial make-up of this class is as follows: 13 Caucasian, 7 African Americans, 1 Asian, and 1 classified as other. The class consists of 3 gifted students, 4 high average, 11 average students, 3 low-average, and 1 ESE student. 50 % of the class has a computer within their home and of this 50%, 40 percent of them have internet connection within their home and use it on a regular bases. The other 50% of the class does not have a computer within their home. Although 50 % of the students do not have a computer at home, they familiar and comfortable with the use of the computers through hands on experience and daily trips to the computer lab at school. 60% percent of the students are very competent in using the computer and internet, 30% of the students have basic computer skills, and 10% will need intense assistance as they work through this project.** **Learning Styles:** **To reach all the learning styles within this classroom the teacher and the media specialist will work together to provide the following: Stated step by step direction, written step by step direction, and hands on activity to accomplish the task.** **Auditory Learners:** **For the auditory learners the teacher will slowly walk through the steps of accessing the google earth website. The teacher will continually state each step and the information that the students need to obtain while they are maneuvering the website. The website offers short videos about particular events or information that the student might use to gather information about a particular city or place.** **Visual Learners:** **The teacher will have a handout the gives step by step directions on how to access the website and what are the objectives and goals for the students once they get to the site. The teacher will also demonstrate on the projector how and where to input information so that the students can accomplish the task. The website offers pictures, videos and small paragraphs of information that will benefit the students search.** **Kinesthetic learners:** **These students will be able use a hands on approach as they work through the website adding information, searching for ideas, pictures, places of interest and other pertinent information about their chosen city or place of interest.** **//Lesson Plan Collaboration//** **//Teacher /Media Specialist//** **//Co-planning//** **The teacher and the media specialist will work together to design this lesson to enhance and cover the following benchmarks and standards. They will create a step-by-step instruction sheet to aide visual learners and will walk through the lesson together to check for any missed steps or information.** **//Co-teaching//** **The teacher and the media specialist will decide on a time that they will be able to use the computer lab for the students to begin their lesson. The teacher and the media specialist will work together to rotate around the room while the students are accessing the information.** **During the actual lesson, the teacher will be assisting the students as they follow the media specialist’s verbal clues and projected demonstration. When the media specialist has finished the demonstration of google earth, the media specialist and the teacher will assist students that are in need.** **//Co-assessing//** **The media specialist and the teacher will work together to not only evaluate the lesson, but to evaluate the worksheet that the students completed. When the student have finished their final brochures** **Digitally, they can be printed out and displayed in the media center or presented on the computer. The media specialist will keep a check list of the technology standards and the teacher will keep a check sheet for the Social Studies benchmarks. When the presentation is finished or displayed the teacher and media specialist will come together to determine the students overall grade.** **//Learning Standards//** **//Social Studies Sunshine State Standards//** **SS.A.6.2** **The students understand the history of Florida and its People.** **SS.B.1.2** **The student understands the world in spatial terms** **SS.B.2.2** **The student understands the interactions of people and the physical environment** **SS.D.2.2** **The student understands the characteristics of different economics systems and institutions** **//NETS Technology Literacy for Students//** ***Student 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** ***Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.** ***Students use technology to process data and report results** ***Students evaluate and select useful information** ***Students will know ways in which people view and relate to places and regions differently** **//Objectives//** **Students will use the internet as a research tool** **Students will navigate through the google earth website to gather information** **Student will understand the importance of the role economics play on their lives** **Students will investigate a city or place of the choice in Florida**

Here is the link for the Virtual Vacation Lesson. It is actually a middle school level lesson. http://etc.usf.edu/plans/lessons/lp/lp0090.htm

Now I am wondering if the Librarian and Teacher Activities should be flip-flopped? CH

From Britt: Just wanted to add two things I noticed from the Rubric: 1. Evidence of co-planning, co-teaching, and co-assessing with the teacher must be shown 2. Focus is on the subject matter not the technology (I think with the way we're headed we have to be careful about this).

From Vicki: I added Connie's original worksheet to the Supplemental Materials page as a .doc file.

From Denise:

I agree with #2 from Britt. We need to be really careful that we focus on the SSS, (Sunshine State Standard), not just using Google Earth. I think we can be flexible with this. I would like to focus on the writing aspect since I teach English.

Here is the link to the 8th grade Language Arts and reading standards; however, you can get to other standards as well once you are on the page.

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Keep in mind that the standards for LA have been updated recently, so the numbers on the lesson plan don't necessarily match the numbers in the standards. (Confusing, I know.)