Thursday, June 4, 2009

Animals Internet Inquiry student artifacts

Here I'm posting some student artifacts. The students created them in Windows Movie Maker. For copyright issues we didn't use the screen captures from kids.nationalgeographic.com but instead we found some photos on flickr.com under Creative Commons license. The students recorded their voices with Microsoft Sound Recorder. The students really showed their learning and they reflected on what part of the website was most helpful to them.
You can find the lesson plans here: https://sites.google.com/a/adams14schools.org/mrfisher/lessons


Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Overdue Kidspiration Needs vs. Wants Lesson

Here's my lesson for distinguishing needs vs. wants. The students created a multimedia file using Kidspiration to distinguish between needs and wants.
The objective of this lesson is to sort pictures to distinguish between a need and a want as well as to select picture files to add to illustrate understanding of the concept. The digital product will be a Kidspiration file. Students will create a multimedia file including a written or voice recorded sentence stating two needs in addition to listing 5 needs and 5 wants. Students will address technology and operations standards to manipulate media to create interactive media files in Kidspiration.
Learning Objectives:
Students will differentiate between a need and want.
Students will show they can drag and drop files, enter text and/or insert a voice recording.
Students will create, locate, and use digital media and digital media tools to create a multimedia file.
The lesson plans (as well as the other lesson plans from this year) are posted here.