WEB+2.0+LESSON+PLAN

Web 2.0 Lesson Plan Content: Native American History Grade: 3rd grade Title: The First People of America Core Learning Goal: The goal of this lesson plan will be to expand the students prior knowledge of Native Americans so they can better analyze how that Native Americans were able to contribute idea’s, talents, and works with the Pilgrims. NETS-S Standard: 3. Research and Information Fluency Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry. b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. d. Process data and report results. Teacher Preparation: In order to assist the students to learn gain more knowledge on Native Americans, I will be prepare a large chart for the class to begin a class discussion. The chart will be a KWL chart consisting of K: what we know, W: what we want to learn, L: what we did learn. This will assist the students to get started on what information they want to look up on the internet. Once all the students look the information up I will have another diagram to help the students in the discussion of what the Native Americans contributed to the Pilgrims. Materials: Paper, Multi-colored markers, ruler, computers, Web 2.0 tool called: this allows the students to interact with other students, ask questions, and post answers, or have another answer their question. Instructions Procedures: What specificallly will be done with the students is I will inform the students of the goals that we will obtain during the class period. The KWL chart will be on the board. I will pose the question of “In what ways idea’s, talents, and works did the Native Americans contribute to the Pilgrims?” We may have an oral discussion just on the background of Native Americans. However specifically on the chart will be the contributions of the Native Americans. After the K part is filled out on the chart of the knowledge the students already possess of the contributions, we will fill out the W part of what we want to learn (new contributions). Then I will inform the students that they will be using the computer: specifically the Web 2.0 tool: AskforAnswers, to better assist them for the last part of our discussion and to fill out the L part of the chart. Once the entire chart is completed we will reflect and recap of new knowledge we just learned. Assessment Plan: Formative Assessment- While the students are on the computers I can take a poll to see what student has the most facts, not to start a race but to see how on task the children can stay and how fast once they are on track they can find information. Summative Assessment- To get a better understanding of the students gained knowledge; I could provide them with a quiz of 10 true or false questions of the contributions, to see if the students did gain more knowledge, and to what extent. Lesson Closure: To conclude the lesson I will, ensure that the KWL chart is completed. As a class we will go over all of the new information, possibly give examples, and make sure all the students comprehend the contributions. I will get an overall poll to see if the students did enjoy using the Web 2.0 and if they would like to work with it again. I would also like to see if they students found it useful or not. Sample Product: [] By going to this website students might see a posted question that they may want to answer. They question could not have been answered yet so they may be the first, or they may add their response to the already posted responses. If the students choose to answer and already answered question it may look like this: [|http://askforia.com/questions/429-how-many-pennies-is-a-dollar] Justification: The reason I choose this Web 2.0 tool was simply it is not hard to use at all. The students will be able to comprehend how to follow it and participate. I also like this tool because, it allows the students to interact with other people who may be in the classroom and who may not be. They post a question and receive a response back from another user. I feel as though this is a different method for the students to learn and it gives them more understanding on how to use computers, and interact with others on the web.