NISD Technology-Integrated Lesson Plan – Elementary

 

Author

First/Last Name Echols/Albrecht

School  Frances M. Rhodes Elementary

Date

4/1/05

Grade Level

Subject Area

            Tech Access via  

 

Lesson Overview

Title

 

Rainbows and Prisms

Lesson Focus: Rainbows

 

 

[kt1] Learning Objectives (Content & Technology):  Students will use the drawing tools in kid pix to make a correctly drawn color spectrum in the form of a rainbow.  They will then, according to their developmental level, use dictation or emergent writing to label the different rainbow components and then write about their own favorite color and tell why.

 

 

Content TEKS/Standards:   TEKS 112.2 Sci.  K.2, K.3, K.4, K.5, K.6, K.7, K.10

 

 

[kt2] Technology TEKS: 126.2B, 1,2, 3, 7, 10, 11

 

 

 

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:  Students will use a variety of activities within the classroom and in the lab to demonstrate their knowledge and comprehension of the prism and rainbow (color spectrum.)  They will also demonstrate their communication skills by dictating or writing their preference of colors and why.

 

 

 

 

Lesson Implementation

[kt5] Instructional Strategies:

 

1.  Students will do a variety of classroom activities that introduce, explore, and enrich their knowledge of prisms and rainbows.

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2.  Students will come to the lab to draw a correctly formatted color rainbow and then communicate their preference in color with reason.

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[kt6] Accommodation/Modification Options:  According to their developmental needs, students can either dictate or write using emergent spellings to label and write about the rainbow and colors. 

 

 

Prerequisite Student Skills:  Students should know how to use the draw tools and text box functions of Kid Pix

 

 

Time Frame (Example:  45 minutes, 2 hours, ongoing all year): 1 session of 1 hour.

 

 

Resources or Supplies Needed:

Classroom component sheet, Science curriculum pages.

 

 

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

Graphers