Author: Ashley Drapala
 Date Created: 2/16/2006 12:19:00 PM PDT
 
Technology Integration Lesson
VITAL INFORMATION
Subject(s):
Social Studies, Technology

Topic or Unit of Study:

Immigration, Technology, Statues



Grade/Level:
4-5

Objective:

1.) Students will use task stream to organize thoughts and ideas in a web.

2.) Students will take ideas and thoughts and organize into categories.

3.) Students will see how the content map can be changed into an outline.



Summary:
 
IMPLEMENTATION
Learning Context:
 
Procedure:

1.) When the students are settled in the computer lab, the teacher will remind students about the unit they have been learning about (immigration). The teacher should say, "When people immigrated to the United States from Europe in the early 1800's, what did they see as they were entering New York Harbor?"

2.) Students will respond with Statue of Liberty.

3.) Students will be given background information regarding the statue of liberty. The teacher will call on a student to read the information. The teacher should point out that the statue of liberty has symbols in her design. The teacher will re read the sentence "The 7 rays on the crown represents the 7 seas of the world and the 7 continents." Tell students that this is a symbol, or something that stands for something else.

4.) Tell students that they are going to be able to construct their own statue that welcomes people to America out of any material they have available to them, construction paper, cotton balls, clay, gummy bears, toothpicks, tin foil and paper plates.

5.) Before students are able to physically make their statues they need to brainstorm ideas in Kidspiration.

6.) Students will be told to log into the computers and open task stream. They will then be shown simple steps to take to organize thoughts. Arrows can be drawn between ideas to lead one to another. Colors can be changed as well as icons. The teacher will give students a run down of how to use Kidspiration. For the rest of the lab time, students will put their ideas in Kidspiration, simply in a web. In their webs, they should include what materials they would like to use where, and be specific.

7.) Students will be able to print out their webs to take back to class where they will build their statues with their materials.

8.) Students will go back to class and build their statues.

9.) To wrap up, students will be given the option of presenting their webs as well as their statues.



Differentiated Instruction:

Students who are ELL and resource may be paired up with other students.



Sample Student Products:
 
Collaboration:
 
Time Allotment:
1 class period. 55 Min. per class.

Author's Comments & Reflections:
 
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Instructional Materials:
 
Resources:
  • Technology resources:
    Kidspiration
  • Materials and resources:
    Computer Lab

STANDARDS & ASSESSMENT
Standards:
AZ- Arizona Academics Standards
• Subject : Social Studies (NEW 2005)
• Subject/ Grade/ Domain : Fifth Grade
• Strand : Strand 1: American History
• Concept : Concept 3: Exploration and Colonization
 Performance Objective : PO 2. Explain the reasons for colonization of America (e.g., religious freedom, desire for land, economic opportunity, and a new life). Connect with: Strand 2 Concept 5 Strand 5 Concept 1
• 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 : ESSENTIALS (Grades 4 - 8)
• Key Idea/Concept 3T-E1: Use formatting capabilities of technology tools for communicating and illustrating
 Performance Objective PO 2: Design a word processing document with graphical elements (e.g., clip art, digital photographs, symbols, using text wrap, cropping, sizing, drawing tools)


Assessment/Rubrics:
Rubrics:
kidspiration