About Our Lesson Plans
The lesson plans were developed by teachers at Rosa
Parks Elementary who participated in technology training and information
literacy workshops funded by AB1339 during Spring, 2003. Fourth and
fifth grade teachers collaborated with the librarian and technology
coordinator to design grade level
lesson
plan templates with research based
assessment
rubrics. Integrating technology, teachers consider their students,
their skills, and the kind of access they have in the classroom. The
ratio of students to computers changes with the use of wireless laptops
that can be checked out for the day. Collaborating with the librarian,
teachers can schedule time in the library media center to extend classroom
research capabilities and use valuable resources selected and collected
for their grade level project.
Teachers used technology to generate graphic organizers,
Venn diagrams, K.W.L. charts, and interdisciplinary concept webs to
plan lessons. Computers were used to create worksheets, templates, activities
and slide shows. For example, ClarisWorks has an "Assistant and
Stationary" category that teachers used to create the lesson plan
and slide show templates, which have been customized and saved for future
usage. Lesson plans require students to use a variety of media to research.
Worksheets and activities containing questions and hyperlinks to Internet
resources guide students to appropriate sites. Slide shows are used
to introduce or review a topic.Some student research project templates
are slide shows as well. In these lesson plans, the teacher creates
a slide show template and specifies the type of information that needs
to be entered on each slide. The students input the information and
include pictures where appropriate. Other projects include book reports,
newspapers, and posters. All student work is saved to their folder on
the student server which can be accessed anywhere on campus.
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