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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
A Standards-Based Approach =Daily Lesson GAME Plan Template= Lesson Title: What if I emigrated through Ellis Island?  || Related Lessons: History of Ellis Island immigration; Narrative storytelling; social networking principles; digital storytelling principles ||  || Unit: Ellis Island Simulation and digital story || GOALS ||  ü Communication and collaboration  ||   ü Research and information fluency ||  ACTION ||  <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">1. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Remind the students to bring their partially written stories to class. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">2. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Make sure each student’s username and password allow internet access. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">3. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Make sure the students can access the blog from the classroom computers. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">4. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Make an example of the work that I expect on the blog. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Make examples to demonstrate appropriate, and inappropriate, comments on someone else’s post. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">6. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Develop an assessment rubric for the blog posting and number of comments required. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">7. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Make sure students work in collaborative partners. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">During class ** <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">5 – 10 minutes <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Review of Ellis Island Immigration simulation. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Review steps immigrants took to complete their Ellis Island procedures. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Review writing process from summative paragraphs into narratives. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Previously written paragraphs & notes from their Ellis Island social studies unit <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">- Pictures of students displayed on Smart Board taken by parents and teachers. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">10 – 20 minutes || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Explain the process of blogging. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Demonstrate appropriate, and inappropriate, examples of commenting on someone else’s post. || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Teacher-made examples and class blog || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">20 – 30 minutes || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Students post their revised narratives onto the class blog. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Students revise their blogs. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">-Students comment on other students’ blogs. || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Teacher-made class blog || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Notes: Student groupings, environmental modifications needed, etc. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Some students with IEP’s may need more time to write their stories. Other slower students may need to be partnered with faster students to allow them to finish the project in a timely manner with a successful grade and project. MONITOR || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ongoing assessment(s): <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Accommodations and extensions: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Students with IEP’s will need extra time and direction. This lesson will be extended to include using a social network lesson. Then those 2 lessons will culminate in a digital story. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Backup plan: The digital story template is in the students’ “work” folders in their network drive; however, if technology is not cooperating, I have printed paper copies on which students can write and illustrate their stories. EVALUATE AND EXTEND || <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Lesson reflections and notes: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This lesson takes some of background preparation. I made a class blog for the students to use and made a post for students to use as an example. My experience using my blog gave me some ideas of what problems students would have completing my assignment.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Content Standards: **
 * Standard 5-3: ** The student will demonstrate an understanding of major domestic and foreign developments that contributed to the United States becoming a world power.
 * 5-3.4 ** Summarize the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to America in the early 1900s, including the countries from which they came, the opportunities and resistance they faced when they arrived, and the cultural and economic contributions they made to this nation.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">http://www.ed.sc.gov/agency/Standards-and-Learning/Academic-Standards/old/cso/social_studies/documents/Grade5.pdf **
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ISTE NETS-S **
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ISTE NETS-S **
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Instructional objective(s): **
 * Problem-Based Learning Situation:**
 * How would you feel as an immigrant to the United States? Where did you come from? What do you expect to do in the United States? Do you have any family here?**
 * 1) (Lesson 1) The students will write a narrative about immigrating to America. They may use pictures from their experience in their recent simulation or pre-chosen pictures from Discovery Education to enhance their story.
 * 2) (Lesson 2-this lesson) The students will use a class blog to post their stories.
 * 3) Students will post narratives on the blog.
 * 4) Students will write and edit posted narratives.
 * 5) Students will comment/critique each other’s narratives.
 * 6) Students will finish their narratives making them ready to transfer to digital stories.
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Before-class preparation: **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The teacher needs to:
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Time ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Instructional Activities ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Materials & Resources ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Materials & Resources ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Grading: **<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The academic teacher(s) will assess student projects for grammar and content. Computer teacher(s) will assess projects for use of software and presentation. Students will use self-evaluations on effort and group participation.