Dear all,
I have posted an extremely bare bones lesson activity, mainly so the URL is set. There is no formatting, the links do not work and I have yet to develop the Edmodo page, the Docs templates or the rubric.
http://polaris.umuc.edu/~ckrage/edtc/Project1/CleantheLab.html
I will be nowhere near my computer with DreamWeaver until Monday, so any changes I make between now and then will be to my Google Docs version:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cHwq6wb0lx2xJAeRp8FS3FFSCJl6vtzn3ck1Sl4m6FE/
I will share that will you all at the e-mails you gave to Jim. Feel free to leave comments there. I do not have an education background, so a lot of the thing you all take for granted knowing, I forget (eg: totally forgot "objective" meant "student objective" not "objective in the world.") I would very much appreciate it being ripped to pieces.
7 comments:
Summary: This activity allows students to use technology to research methods of disposal/ways to recycle electronics products. Students will view/critique videos about the issue, then search the web for appropriate solutions. Students will work collaboratively to decided on the best solutions for a certain local and publish these findings to a webpage. This lesson is designed to solve authentic problems.
Cate,
If you could "activate" your Google Docs link that would help readers go to it easier. In the blog interface (while composing), there is a button for the hyperlink. Click that while your text is highlighted and you can insert the link. You can also change the text to it isn't such a long string. Check it out if you can.
I like your lesson plan. As a computer teacher it is a topic near and dear to me. Also, you have placed it into DreamWeaver properly and the link works. I can use this link for the group page. All you really need to do now is format it and make it look "pretty". Good job!
Sorry, got lazy because I shared it and was thinking you could just follow the link from your e-mail.
Just a tip: if I boneheadedly do it again, you can quickly highlight by clicking 3 times, then right click and tell the link to open in a new window.
Cate,
I like your lesson and I love your pictures. I think that it includes elements of research, problem solving skills. I really like that you included an "extension" activity. It motivates the students to go out of their way, especially if they receive an incentive.
Beth
Cate,
Good job with the bare bones, but you need to flesh this out.
Let me suggest some ways:
You need an activity to go with each of your objectives.
I'd suggest you do something like this:
Activity 1: Read the following articles [to learn about xxx]
Activity 2: Develop a research question and key words to locate information to answer your question. [You'll need to tell them what this means; ideally you'd provide them with some kind of worksheet to guide them--What is your research question? What key words would you use to search for information--list them)
Activity 3: Search for information about disposal methods [How many sources? Where do they record what they learned?]
Activity 4: Collaborate with your group and pool your knowledge.
[Again, give them a handout or chart to use to record their group decisions.]
Activity 5: Develop a [something other than a website? That would take a lot of technology training that is not part of this activity. What about develop a one page poster that recommends the techniques?
Use a tool like: http://poster.4teachers.org/
Conclusion: Add some kind of culminating activity (e.g. Display your posters on the wall for parents' night.
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Your revision is coming along nicely, Cate. I like the buttons--View, Research, etc.
I do think that asking students to create a website, however, will require a good bit of guidance which I don't think you want to have in this lesson. I'd suggest that they create something that they already know how to do. It could be a poster that is created with Powerpoint, for example.
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