NISD Technology-Integrated Lesson Plan – Elementary

 

Author

First/Last Name Second grade teachers/Pam Albrecht

School  Frances M. Rhodes Elementary

Date

2/21/04

Grade Level

Subject Area

            Tech Access via  

 

Lesson Overview

Title

 

Communications through the Ages

Lesson Focus: Communication

 

 

[kt1] Learning Objectives (Content & Technology):  Students will use multiple sources to find information on various communication inventors/inventions.  When done, they will present what they have learned in either a student made webpage or a timeline poster, both including the  discussion of how that invention had changed communication and how it was important to communication today. Students will then present their findings and later vote on the invention/inventor of the century, justifying their choices.

 

 

Content TEKS/Standards:   Sci. TEKS 112.4 B 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7

 

 

[kt2] Technology TEKS: 126.2 B 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

 

 

 

Teacher Preparation

Elements that support Student Engagement & Student Challenge

[kt3] Learning Styles:

 

Multiple Intelligences:

 

 Sensing-Thinking

 Linguistic

 Interpersonal

 Intuitive-Thinking

 Mathematical

 Intrapersonal

 Sensing-Feeling

 Visual-Spatial

 Naturalist

 Intuitive-Feeling

 Kinesthetic

 Existential

 

 Musical

 

 [kt4] Cognitive Theory - Bloom’s Taxonomy:

 Knowledge

 

 Analysis

 Comprehension 

 Synthesis

 Application

 Evaluation

Explain briefly:  After researching biographical information for their chosen inventor, students must express how that persons invention has impacted both communication at the time of its emergence and communication today.

 

 

 


 

Lesson Implementation

[kt5] Instructional Strategies:

 

1.  Students will receive their prompt and brainstorm possible research questions with the Librarian.

7.   Students will interview their grandparents over changes in communication in their lifetime.

2.  Students will learn the strategies of trash and treasure research.

8.   Students will vote for communication inventor/invention of the century, justifying their choice.

3.  Students will research the inventor/invention using a variety of sources.

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4.  Students will present their information, conclusions and proposals in their choice of  a webpage or timeline poster.

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5.  Students will orally present their information to the class.

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[kt6] Accommodation/Modification Options:  Students can work as a group dividing up the questions or student can have a "reader" to help read through the research articles.  You could also print the websites and have student highlight the needed info. 

 

 

Prerequisite Student Skills:  Students should know how to navigate the internet using links, and should be familiar with the software of their project choice, ( Publisher and Timeliner)

 

 

Time Frame (Example:  45 minutes, 2 hours, ongoing all year): 5-7 sessions of 1 hour each.

 

 

Resources or Supplies Needed:

 Communication Webquest web page outlining the project, Graphic Organizer, Rubric

 

 

Technology - Hardware (Click boxes needed):

 

Computer(s)

VCR

Projector

Printer

Video Camera

Video Conferencing

Digital Camera

Scanner

Other

TV

Laser Disk

 

Comments:      

 

Technology - Software (Click boxes needed):

Microsoft Word

Web Publishing software

First Workshop

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Neighborhood Map Machine

Microsoft PowerPoint

Inspiration

Timeliner

Microsoft Access

Kid Pix

Video Technology

Microsoft Publisher