recipes for technology integration linda l. mills greensburg community schools [email protected]
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Recipes for Technology Integration
Linda L. MillsGreensburg Community Schools
[email protected] http://www.greensburg.k12.in.us/ges/Library/
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Ingredients needed…• Library media specialist• Teachers• Technology• Supportive administrators• Students• Standards
Blend these all together and what do
you get?Collaboration!
Higher achieving students!Happy administrators!
Contented teachers/lms!
To blend well, you must plan:
• Anytime• Anywhere• Formally• Informally• BUT make sure you write it down!
Primary Ingredient• Know the standards• Use the website (
http://www.doe.state.in.us/asap/academicstandards.html )
• Combine standards
Secondary Ingredients• Computer
labs• Computers in
classroom• Camcorders• Scanners
•Digital cameras•SmartBoards•AlphaSmarts•Books/Magazines•Programs
AlphaSmarts?
• Portable keyboards• Other names• Writing• Math problems• Keyboarding
SmartBoards?•Internet•Writing•Games•Presentations•Demonstrations•http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+Activities/default.htm
•http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
Digital Cameras?• Field trips• Student pictures• Wanted posters• Writing prompts• Place/positions
Programs • Inspiration/Kidspiration• Kid Pix• Scholastic Keys• Graph Club• TimeLiner• Any word processor • Any spreadsheet
Kindergarten
• Patterns• Numbers• Alphabet• Writing simple stories
K.1.14 match all consonant sounds to appropriate letters
K.1.6 Recognize and name all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Alphabet book made by class LA K.1.4, K.1.18,
I see a snowman. He is big! My snowman has a black hat. AJK.4.5 Write by moving from left to right and from top to bottomK.4.2 Tell a story that the teacher or some other person will write.
First Grade
• Tools• Plants• Compound words• Maps• Nutrition• Compound Words• Turkeys
Tool book
Identifying parts of plants
1.1.16 Read and understand simple compound words and contractions.
Standards: LA1.6.2 (using complete sentences)
S.S. 1.3.7 Draw simple maps that show how land is included in the school and local community.
Math 1.2.3 Show equivalent forms of the same number.
Math 1.5.7 Identify and give the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes.
Friends
Recess
Rebecca
What I like about first
grade
Eating
Reading
Graphic Organizators
Standards: LA1.5.1 organizing stories
1.4.2 Use various organizational strategies to plan writing
1.4.2 Use various organizational strategies to plan writing
Where we live
Internet sites• Clifford the Big Red Dog
http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/ • Jan Brett http://www.janbrett.com • Polar Express
Tooth Unit
Ingredients– First grade class– Teacher and media specialist– Online collaboration with other classes– Global Schoolnet
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/center/index.html
Process– Do K-W-L chart on teeth– Research the tooth– Draw tooth in Kid Pix– Graph how many teeth lost each month,
compare it to the other schools involved– Read about the tooth fairy– Draw the tooth fairy; keep researching
teeth
1.4.2 Use various organizational strategies to plan writing.
AuthorsExamples• Eric Carle• Helen Lester• Norman Bridwell
Variations• Art teacher talked about Carle’s
art style• Create caterpillars structured
on Carle’s art work• Students write using
AlphaSmarts to create author books
• Read and discuss The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Explore graphs• Graph what the caterpillar ate• Create individual student graphs
in lab• Use different graph forms
Helen Lester• Read Tacky the Penguin books
• Discuss penguins with class
• Bring penguin books in; discuss table
of contents, and index
• Determine a list of questions
• Do research and take notes on sticky notes
Second Grade
• Describing words• Biographies• Goods• Urban, Rural• Long Ago• Animals• Graphing
• Venn Diagrams• Math
short
talltiny
little
humongous
medium
huge
bigfat
large Describing words for size
enormous
small
slim
skinny
medium
Standards: LA1.5.4 using describing words
He was the
father of our
country.
He fought for our
independence.
He was married
to Martha.
He was our first
president
George Washington
Standards: SS 1.5.2 famous people and LA1.1.5 writing stories
S.S. 2.3.2 Identify community workers who provide goods and services.
S.S. 2.1.1 Listen to historical stories and compare daily life in the past and present.
More projects• Penguins• Snakes• Spiders• Landforms• Landmarks• Solar System
ContinentsIngredients• All second grades• Teachers and library media specialist• Lots of books about the continents,
countries, folktales• Large maps
Third Grade• Adjectives• Systems of the Body• Simple Machines• Biomes (rainforest, deserts,
oceans, caves, polar regions, ponds, forests
6 +1 Writing Trait: Descriptive words
• Learned how to take notes• Reviewed table of contents and index• Learned how to use online
encyclopedias• Learned how to find books on Alex• Drew pictures of their animals• Printed pictures of animals• Wrote and corrected paragraphs on
animals• http://www.greensburg.k12.in.us/
ges/library
DesertsIngredients• Teacher and library media specialist• Desert books• Cactus books• Discuss life cycle of a cactus• Kidspiration
Fourth Grade•Historical Fiction•Animal Groups•Animal books/online encyclopedia•Scientists•How to writing
Organization writing
Fifth Grade• Colonial occupations• Lewis and Clark• Space Second one• INSPIRE
WebQuests• Internet activity or paper and pencil• Student centered• Research• Higher level thinking• http://webquest.org/ Bernie Dodge• Snakes• Insects
Using the Web for research:• Online encyclopedias• INSPIRE• My web site
http://www.greensburg.k12.in.us/ges/library
• Other kid search engines• Other sites
Over 2 dozen databases with: • Thousands of magazines and journals
with full-text• Hundreds of newspapers from around the
U.S. • Material for students in elementary school
in INSPIRE Kids and junior high and high school in the Student Research Center
.
Need to teach students to:
• Evaluate sites• How to be safe on the Internet• How to choose keywords• How to not plagiarize
Remember------• Know your standards• Think about standards• Know your curriculum• Think about curriculum• Investigate technology• Learn technology
Remember• Work with others• Work with your media
specialist• Read magazines, books, etc.• Visit other schools• Go to conferences• And most of all--------
Have fun using technology! You and your students will enjoy learning together.