Technology Lesson Presentation

Technology Integration

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My Technology Lesson

So far, I have used technology in about half of my lessons. In my classroom I have a Smart Board to work with which is heavenly! I usually create a PowerPoint and do an overlay of it so I can write on the slides with the Smart Board. One of my favorite lessons with the Smart Board has been my math lesson for adding 3-digit numbers. I had a variety of problems on the Smart Board and the students and I solved them. I demonstrated once and then called on students to come up and show us how to solve the problem. It was great because their was no clean up, I could have the problems already ready to solve, and the students were able to come up and help me solve. I pretty much Love the Smart Board!

Technology Enhanced Lesson

So, I don't know about everyone else, but I am in love with the Smart Board! It is so cool and comes in so handy for lessons. I have already used it several times as a huge portion of my lesson. One idea that I haven't used yet, but I might use some time is this:

Matching Game!
You can use the Smart Board for a matching game in your lesson. This would be a great review for whatever you are teaching. Using the Smart Board, have students come up and move the boxes that are hiding your matches. When they find a match they can move the boxes together or just out of the way. There are so many possibilities with this idea. You could hide words, sentences, pictures, links, what ever under, and have students move to find the answers. You could make this as easy or as hard as you want! Endless possibilities with this one idea!

Classroom Technology Inventory

I learned much by doing my Technology Inventory. I learned that students have much access to technology. They rotate about once a week in centers to use the computers in the classroom to enhance their learning. They also work on the computers on a set schedule. An important technology that is used everyday, several times a day, is the Smartboard. The teacher uses it in her lessons and the students have many opportunities to come up to the board and work on it as well.
I also learned that the school has 4 mobile computer carts. They rotate between classrooms and have all of the programs that MACs normally have on them as well as several programs that the school uses. They have a tech person and 2 assistants as well to help teachers and students with tech stuff. I'm really impressed with the technology in my school!

Google Tour - The Civil War

Here is my Google Tour! Enjoy!

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TPACK - The Civil War

I am going to go through four important events of the Civil War with students. The core content I am using is the fifth grade social studies core:

Standard 4
Students will understand that the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth.
Objective 3 Evaluate the course of events of the Civil War and its impact both immediate and long-term.
a. Identify the key ideas, events, and leaders of the Civil War using primary sources (e.g. Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, news accounts, photographic records, diaries).

The pedagogy I will be using is guided discovery learning. I will have the information on Google Earth for students and they will discover it, think about it, and write about it.

The technology I will be using is Google Earth. I will create a kmz file for students to open using Google Earth. They will use Google Earth to look at places where events in the Civil War took place. This is a great fit with the content because students can see where the Civil War was taking place and actually see the places where important events took place.

The Civil War - Google Earth Style!

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Show South Carolina's secession from the United States.	Have them read Wikipedia and find the reasons for South Carolina's secession.	Have Wikipedia information on American Civil War.
2. Show Fort Sumter - where the first shots were fired.	Have students write in their journal how they would feel if all supplies were cut off from them.	Show pictures of Fort Sumter and have Wikipedia content on Fort Sumter.
3. Show Emancipation Proclamation took effect in the northern states.	Have them write in thier journal how they would feel if they were just freed from slavery.	Show images of slaves, Abraham Lincoln and have Wikipedia pages from emancipation proclamation.
4.Show were the Battle of Gettysburg and where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.	Read the Gettysburg Address and write in their journal reactions to it.	Show images of Gettysburg, Have Wikipedia page information, and the actual Gettysburg Address.
Show the outline of the United States at the time of the Civil war. Link the four events they are learning about with a line.