Lesson+Plans

I challenged myself to find a way to utilize 21st Century Skills/Tools to motivate my students. I also worked hard to incorporate CGI strategies for students to engage in constructing their own learning. As a participant in SD Counts I thought it was important to infuse these instructional strategies as well. These are my integrated lesson plans:

Lesson #1: This is our first year with Promethean Boards in the district. I build this lesson to integrate use of a Promethean Flipchart that I created and model that for classroom teachers. This was a great lesson using the tools available from Promethean, but I think it could be modified with other technology available as well. Although this was not what I would classify as technology "rich" it was the first exposure these students had had to the Promethean Board and getting to interact with the board themselves. Therefore it was a huge step in the case of this classroom. 21st Century Skills addressed throughout the course of this lesson include, but are not limited to: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Analysis, Communication and Collaboration, Social Interaction. This lesson was modified to fit the needs in addressing the standard from a similar lesson on the Illuminations website. I wanted to find a lesson that approached the concept in a constructivist - hands on - model.

This is an ActivInspire Flipchart that can be downloaded to use with this lesson.

Lesson #2: This lesson was done in January as a delayed follow up to the 3 day lesson in October. I wanted to check for retention of information and see who needed some extra intervention/one-on-one assistance in relation to this standard. I simply used the ActivInspire flipchart from the previous lesson to review and refer to teaching points after I had given a quick pre-lesson quiz. We used ActivExpressions for the quiz and saved results throughout, so we could go back through and review and use the results for teaching the lesson. Again this was an opportunity for model new technology available to the teachers & students. They had not used the ActivExpressions up to this point. Again this is an ActivInspire Flipchart - this has the quiz given in Lesson 2.

Lesson #3: This lesson was done in April. It involved exploring Children's Health data and statistics to find numbers that fit the categories of multiples of 2, 5, and 10. The students used the website outlined in the lesson to identify and categorize numbers and place them in a table they created in Microsoft Word. This was a great lesson. The students loved working in pairs to identify and locate numbers, as well as creating tables in a Word document. This was a great lesson in embedding 21st Century Themes/Skills. The result: 100% for the class in identifying multiples of 2, 5, & 10 from the data.