Designer(s): Courtney Bond
 Date Created: 2/21/2006 12:24:00 PM PDT
 
Technology in the Classroom
Basic Information
Summary:
Students will develop the concept of mapping literature using Kidspiration. They will create a cognitive map on kidspiration based off the book "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff.

Grade/Level:
3

Time Frame:
45 min to 60 min

Subject(s):
Language Arts (English), Technology

Topic(s):
Cognitive maps

Notes:
 
Standards and Key Concepts
Standards:
AZ- Arizona Academics Standards
• Subject : Language Arts
• Subject/ Grade/ Domain : Reading
• Grade : GRADE 3
• Strand : Strand 2: Comprehending Literary Text
• Concept : Concept 1: Elements of Literature
Identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structures and elements of literature.
 Performance Objective PO 4: Make relevant connections (e.g., relationships, cause/effect, comparisons) between earlier events and later events in text.
 Performance Objective PO 3 : Sequence a series of events in a literary selection.
 Performance Objective PO 2: Describe characters (e.g., traits, roles, similarities) within a literary selection.
 Performance Objective PO 1: Compare (and contrast) literary elements across stories, including plots, settings, and characters.
• Subject : Technology
• Standard 3: Technology, Productivity,Tools.
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, to increase productivity and creativity, and to collaboratively construct technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
• Grade Range : FOUNDATIONS (Grades 1 through 3)
• Key Idea/Concept 3T-F3: Use prescribed technology tools for publishing and presenting information
 Performance Objective PO 1: Use a pre-designed template or stationery to publish a document (e.g., newsletter, slide show, greeting card, certificate)
 Performance Objective PO 2: Create a multimedia product with support from teachers, family, or student partners (e.g., slide show, hyperstack, video)


Understandings:
Students will be able to use technology to organize their ideas into a congnitve map using "Kidspiration."

Essential Questions:
 
Knowledge and Skills:
Students must be able to use the computer appropriately.

Performance Tasks and Assessment
Performance Task:
 
Performance Prompt:
 
Assessment/Rubrics:
Students will be assessed by the teacher's observations of them using the computers and also by their completed cognitive map.

Learning Experiences and Resources
Sequence of Activities:
1. Read the story "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff out loud to the class.

2. Have the students write down on paper their thoughts about the story and also any details of the story that they remember.

3. Take students to the computer lab and teach them how to use kidspiration using examples and explaining to them step by step how to use the program.

4. Have the students create their own cognitive map using kidspiration. Have them create a map that deals with the sequence of events that took place in the story.

Differentiated Instruction:
 
Resources:
  • Materials and resources:
    1. The book, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff.

    2. Computers with the Kidspiration program already downloaded on them.

    3. Paper and pencils.