Grades+3-5+Standard+1a

Grades 3-5

**NETS-S Standard ****1. Creativity and Innovation** Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

1a: Students apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes Subject area: reading, writing, speaking, listening This was previously used for BOB practice. Have students write 5 questions about the book they read. The format is similar… In which book…. Answer is the title of the book. Create a jeopardy template using a website such as [] is one example of a site chock full of ideas and templates. Each student types in his question and answer under the appropriate category: characters, objects, events, setting, place –use categories of your choice (brainstorm your own) You will need 20 good questions so the group could be 5 students 4 books each for example. Students will have to have read all the books to be fair. Play the game having students critique their questions as you go along. Too Easy/too vague/fits more than one book etc. example 
 * Lesson: Grades 4-5 Jeopardy Challenge Cup**
 * Jeopardy Challenge Cup**

Subject Area: reading, writing, speaking, listening Content Standard: Lesson Title: This I Believe podcasts Time needed: Not so much tech time but lots of classroom time to write, revise, share etc before recording, which does need to be in the lab or a recording setting.
 * LESSON: Grades 4-5 **

Short description of the lesson: Listen to already published essays, write and record own, record in Audacity and upload to iTunes

Online application used & other possibilities (include brief notes about using an "edu" version or if the teacher can set up student accounts)

What hardware and software is needed? Audacity or other recording software, headphones with microphones Student example: (insert document or link) complete lesson plan

<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: __Someday__ - a springboard to goal setting <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 classroom periods, 2-3 lab periods
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: 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;">Short description of the lesson: Read Eileen Spinelli's __Someday__, which shows different children's hopes and dreams for the future and what they decide to do in the here and now to reach those goals

<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? photostory <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) see link for lesson plan

<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: Social Studies <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: 5th State Glogster Project (Can be adapted to any grade level, for example, 3rd grade biographes, 4th grade wildlife, etc.) <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: 5 days - 50 min. period <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;">Teach students to lay out their info in the glog in an interesting, informative and engaging way including text, images, video. <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;">[] <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;">Computer lab or laptops, Projector, Flipcams <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; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LESSON: Grade 3-5 **

<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Time needed: 5 30-45 min periods
====<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Short description of the lesson: As part of the FOSS energy unit of study, students take photos of energy transfer at home, bring pictures in and make photo story showing a variety of energy source, transfer and action. Students also make a Kidspiration drawing of transfer of energy and add it to their Photo Story (need to export Kidspiration as a jpeg to import into Photo Story) ====

<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Online application used & other possibilities –can post finished products online
====<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What hardware and software is needed? Computers for each student, mics, Kidspriation, Photo Story, cameras at home to take pictures, and a tool to transfer student photos to folder on server. ====

<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Student example: (insert document or link)
media type="file" key="Lily B 3rd gr energy photo story.wmv" width="300" height="300"

<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">Subject Area: Colorado History <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">Content Standard: Standard 1a – Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products or processes <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">Lesson Title: Living Time Line <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">Time needed: 1 month <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">History 1. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Construct a timeline of events showing the relationship of events in Colorado history with events in United States and world history <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12px;"> (DOK 1-2)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">LESSON Grade: 4th grade **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Explain the cause-and-effect relationships in the interactions among people and cultures that have lived in or migrated to Colorado <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12px;"> (DOK 1-2)

<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">Short description of the lesson: Colorado History timelines. Each student researches a famous Coloradoan and adds their information to a class timeline and an event that is happening in Colorado History during their individuals’ life. Class discusses events happening during the time of these individuals’ lives and how the individuals’ life was influenced by what was happening. A connection will then be made about how events in Colorado are also influenced by US and World events. <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">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"; font-size: 15px;">[] [] []

<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">What hardware and software is needed? <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Timeliner software, Now You Know Biography <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">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;">Subject Area: reading, writing, speaking, listening <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: Elements of a Story and Photostory <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: 5 days approx.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px;">LESSON: 3rd 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;">Short description of the lesson: Day 1: Read a picture book with students and review story elements. Divide students into small groups, with each group assigned a story element. Each group fills out their assigned element of the graphic organizer and each group shares out as the teacher/librarian records on main graphic organizer. Day 2: Teacher models finished organizer which includes ideas of images that goes along with each of the elements. Show an example of Photostory you have created on a picture book. Students (individually or in groups) complete their element organizer with bulleted list of images. Day 3: Students complete a storyboard planning worksheet to map their story nwith images, decide whether to narrate or use text and explore background music options. Day 4: (Computer lab) Teacher shows how a new project in Photostory is made and the various steps that they will go through in the process of creating a photostory. Teacher suggests tips and techniques for using image search engines, demonstrates how to locate images and apply them to the Photostory project. Students start working independently, continue the next day and then have students share out their Photostory presentations with their peers. Appropriate online resources for images: Images.com FotoSearch Pic search <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;">Computer lab or laptops, PhotoStory <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;">Teacher Resources: