So many snow days! I wanted to send out an update that I taught my technology lesson plan on Monday. It was planned for Thursday, but on Wednesday (with the impending snow storms) I changed the library reservation to Monday. I thought we would have school on Friday, but with the early dismissal on Wednesday, we still had a topic to cover before my lesson. That topic still hasn’t been covered. Anyway, let me backtrack and tell you about my lesson. My topic was Star Constellations with the main objective to explain that this is a form of navigation and that stars, even though they look close together, are sometimes great distances apart. The lesson used multiple forms of technology including Webspiration, PowerPoint, iPad Star Walk, and the internet. Webspiration was used to brainstorm the students’ prior knowledge. This was followed by a small PowerPoint with some basic information about the topic. The exciting part of this lesson was when we traveled to the library and used the iPads/computers for a web-quest. Students picked a partner and a constellation to research from my list of popular ones. Since we only had 10 iPads the class was spilt into two groups and switched to use them. The students then created a PowerPoint with their information about their star constellations. These presentations will occur whenever school reopens. Oh Snow Days.
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