Grades+3-5+Standard+2a

Grades 3-5 **NETS-S Standard ****2.** **Communication and Collaboration** Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

2a. Students interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media

LESSON: Grade_2 Subject Area: Science Content Standard: Lesson Title_ABC Insect Digital Book Time needed: 3 blocks of 45 minutes each

Each student is assigned a letter of the alphabet and draws a picture of a word that represents that letter. Example: A is for Antennea; Some insects have antennea on their head. It helps them to sense direction.
 * Short description of the lesson: **

Teacher (or student) takes a digital picture of each child holding his or her art work with letter clearly shown. Import each picture in alphabetical order into Photostory.

Have each student record his or her writing. (2-3 sentences)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Completed digital product can be linked and uploaded to the school website.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online application used & other possibilities **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photostory, digital camera, microphone
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What hardware and software is needed? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student example: (insert document or link)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LESSON: Grades 3-5

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Title: Creative Writing <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Time needed 2-3 45-60 minutes of technology time, as well as time for the writing process

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short description of the lesson: Using pictures from Storybird.com, students select an artist, pick illustrations and drag into a storyboard. That is printed and students write the creative story, working through the writing process. Text is then typed in word, and cut and pasted into Storybird.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online application used & other possibilities [|www.storybird.com]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What hardware and software is needed? If you want to print, a duplexing color printer is extremely helpful.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student example: (insert document or link)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LESSON: Grades 3-5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subject Area: Poetry <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content Standard <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson Title: Poetry VoiceThread <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Time needed: 2-3 days

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short description of the lesson: Students write poems. Upload the poems to VoiceThread.com. Author reads poem on VoiceThread.com. Students posts comments after they listen to the poem. Comments can be guided to respond to the general message, the figurative language, theme and/or author's purpose.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create VoiceThread.com K-12 account and set up student accounts in advance. Put student logins on slips of paper to faciltate logging in.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What hardware and software is needed? computers with Internet access, headphones with boom mics.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student example: (insert document or link)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**LESSON**__: Grades 4 and 5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Subject Area:**__ Language Arts <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Content Standard:**__ Writing for an authentic audience <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Lesson Title:**__ Posting Book Reviews on Destiny <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Time needed:**__ About 3 sessions once a book has been read (one day to share purpose and format for desired book review and write, a session to revise and edit with teacher or peers, one day to word process and post to Destiny)

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short description of the lesson: **__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students learn to write a book review using examples from the real world. Writing persuasively is a skill that is valuable for authentic audiences. Posting the reviews offers that real world audience.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Online application used & other possibilities**__: Offers opportunity to explore why consumers recommend books as well as other items on the internet.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**What hardware and software is needed?**__ Student accounts need to be set up in Destiny to post and be approved by librarian, Microsoft Word to type and have a spell check option available, paper and pencil for planning and drafting

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Student example:**__ Will post <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">~Dana Lott

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">LESSON Grade: 3-5 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Subject Area: Writing <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Content Standard: Descriptive Writing <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Lesson Title: Draw the Monster <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Time needed: 2-3 days <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Short description of the lesson: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">What hardware and software is needed? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Projectors, Computers, Word <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Student example: (insert document or link) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LESSON Grade: 3-5 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Subject Area: Language Arts, Social Studies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Content Standard: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lesson Title: Historical Heroes <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time needed: This activity can be used as an extension in a Biography unit such as Night of the Notables, or as a stand along biography project. Previous time for researching a historical hero is necessary. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Short description of the lesson: <span style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Summarizing information is an important postreading and prewriting activity that helps students synthesize what they have learned. This tool allows students to develop an outline of a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read; it can also be used before students write their own autobiography. Specific prompts ask students to describe a person's significance, background, and personality. The finished printout can be folded into a fun cube shape that can be used for future reference. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Students draw a Monster
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Take a digital picture or scan the Monster picture into a file
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Students write a description of their monster using many descriptive words – may need some editing and revising
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; line-height: normal;">Students type the description of their Monster and save it
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Another class opens the descriptions and draws the Monster that is described
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Those new pictures are saved
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Open and project the Monster pictures [Original and New] so that the students can see how close they came using the typed descriptions (Use PowerPoint to put the pics, side by side)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">You might have both classes in for this final presentation

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Activity from [|www.ReadWriteThink.org] website sponsored by NCTE

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What hardware and software is needed? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">computer lab and printer

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 115%;">Student example: (insert document or link

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LESSON Grade: 3-5 <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Subject Area: Language Arts, Social Studies, Science <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Content Standard: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lesson Title: 5 card draw <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time needed: 2 class periods: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 1 to find a story to retell, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 2 creating a “5 card draw” story!

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Short description of the lesson: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students will be asked to retell a favorite picture book (wordless preferred) using this new creative web 2.0 tool. Students can follow up all year long using this website as inspiration. As well, it leads into students using cellphones, ipods, digital cameras etc to take their own photos to tell stories.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts) 5card.cogdogblog.com This web site is designed to foster visual thinking. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selection of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures. When you are done, you the option to add a title and explanation, then you can save the story so you can put a link in your resume. Plus you have the ability to tweet your story or use an embed code to add it to your own web site.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What hardware and software is needed? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">computer lab and email addresses for students to share work

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Student example: (insert document or link) []

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LESSON Grade: 3rd <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Subject Area: Social Studies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Content Standard: Standards 1a; primary sources; 3rd grade Social Studies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lesson Title: __Emigration or Immigration Interviews__ <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time needed: 2 weeks <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Short description of the lesson: After a study of emigration or immigration, students will use IPOD touch to create a digital interview of a family or community member. They will ask this person about their families’ immigration to the U.S., holidays, traditions, food, customs, etc. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The IPOD video will include video clips, text and photographs taken of family members. These will be integrated into the movie.Online application used & other possibilities : I-Tunes, You-Tube for publishing movies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">What hardware and software is needed? <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">I POD touch (generation 4); windows movie maker <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[]

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Student example: (insert document or link)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LESSON Grade: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Subject Area: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content Standard: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson Title: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Time needed:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short description of the lesson:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Online application used & other possibilities (include notes like: use the “edu version”, you can create your students’ accounts)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What hardware and software is needed?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student example: (insert document or link)