Hey Guys!
Here is the link to my lesson plan on google docs Muscles In Motion.
Jim -- Here is the URL to my webpage on DW:
http://polaris.umuc.edu/~arobbin2/edtc/MusclesInMotion.html
Let me know what you guys think! I've added a few images and played with some of the fonts, but I would still like to add to the background other small details. I'm open to suggestions!
And thanks, Cate for letting me know to just keep it simple for now!
Here's my summary: The Muscles In Motion lesson is a health education lesson geared toward second grade students. The lesson guides students to use the Internet for researching a muscle from the body. At the end of the lesson, students will work together in groups to complete a poster to display what they've learned about their muscle, while practicing their information-seeking skills.
Alyssa
11 comments:
I like your lesson plan. I do have a design suggestion. I would not use a script font on a web page. It is very hard to read. Most web designers feel, and studies show, that a clean San-serif font looks best and is easiest to read. You can vary the font style by using differing font sizes, bolding, and italics. Also, consider using a CSS style to limit the maximum width the page can be. Many web designers use between 800 and 1000 px, but this is really a personal style choice. You can do this by making a new rule, use TAG- body- box- width......and set the width in px.
Alternately, if you don't want to use a CSS sheet, you can put an inline style on the HTML page in the body tag. Let me know if you need help with this.
Thanks, Jim! I'll definitely change the font styles around to make it easier to read. I'll try my best with the directions and if I need help I will let you know :)
I'm not sure, but I think the level of this activity is a little beyond 7 year olds. You may want to think about leading them through the research more or limiting yourself to having them search on your pre-selected sites where you know there is information (eg: have them go to something like "Enchanted Learning" and look up the muscle and read about it - even then, you need to pair your strong readers with your weak ones - 2nd grade is the year some kids are reading Harry Potter and some kids are still having trouble with the Step 1 books.)
I'm assuming the italicized words, you are planning to do something special, like a podcast or a video?
Also - more pictures,many more, but don't forget to cite them and make sure they are royalty-free (no, it is not "fair use for education" - no one will care/come after you, but shouldn't we be "good" when it matters?)
I really like your lesson. I think it covers a lot of great things that are good for PE. My main concern is that my understanding is that the lesson should be something that the students should be able to walk through on their own or with some assistance. Reading this, I'm not sure that a second grader would be able to read it. It has a lot of text, which might even discourage students when they are not strong readers.
I think I might change the grade level to third grade instead...so that it would be a little less challenging for the students.
Thanks, Beth!
I'm going to go through it tonight so make it less wordy and probably bump it up to be a 3rd grade lesson. Thanks for the input and suggestions!
Alyssa
With the italicized words, I'm making it seem like questions and directions they read to themselves.
I'll be sure to add more pictures and to cite them.
Thanks for reviewing it :)
Alyssa,
The lessons is very good! The colors and photos work well, too.
The challenge for this project is to turn the lesson idea into a set of pages that are readable by the 2nd graders--even with just a little guidance. It would be great if you could pull out all the objectives and put them on a separate teacher page.
I do have a question about your objectives--don't you want them to learn about muscles? Your objectives are fine, but they all relate to research. Can you add one objective related to muscles?
Then your rubric for the poster would include something like "displays accurate information about muscles"
I'd also suggest that you put the separate activities on separate pages--so that students could focus on one item at a time before moving on.
I look forward to your revision.
Dawn
Alyssa,
Thought I'd take a look at your site again.
I discovered that some of your links are not working. Your google docs link is not open to the public and other links don't work correctly. Do you have a rubric you want to link to?
Let me know if you need some help on this.
Dawn
Hey Dawn,
Sorry I'm just now seeing your message. Cate also said that my links are not working, so I'm going to make the links into separate pages instead.
I'm also working on adding an objective about muscles (not sure how I completely skipped over that one).
Being in Vegas totally screwed up my timing with this, but it will get done and I'm working away at it right now!!!
Alyssa
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