Overview+(Project+4)

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 * == Content Area == || == Team Member == || == Quick Summary of Activity == || == Form of Technology == ||
 * ===Art=== || ===Lee=== || ===Students will explore their school building and record the essential areas using digital cameras. Students will use these photographs to create a list of important features for all school buildings to have. Using Google Sketch Up, students will create their own, ideal three-dimensional school building.=== || ===Digital Cameras, Google Sketch Up=== ||
 * ===English/Language Arts/ **Reading**=== || ===Mohammed=== || === To help improve students’ reading skills and fluency, I am going to use Digital audio recorder. Students will be given a passage and will be asked to read loudly, clearly and as fluent as possible. Using the digital recorder, they will be recorded while reading. When they are done reading each student will have the chance to listen to their own voices. This is a good way to receive feedback and to evaluate their own skills and know their strengths and weaknesses. === || ===Digital Audio Recorder=== ||
 * ===Foreign Language=== || ===Mohammed=== || === To enhance students’ second/foreign language learning they are going to use pen pals to communicate with native speakers of Spanish. Students will exchange personal and cultural information. For example, student can talk about (name, birthday, age, address, school, their families, friends, favorite activities, food, festivals, television shows, or movies). === || ===E-mail pen pals=== ||
 * ===Health=== || ===Shelly=== || ===Students will act out a behavior that helps continue or can encourage overall health. An example could include exercising daily. They will also create one slide that will follow their video that gives a one sentence summary describing the behavior they demonstrated and a one sentence description of why it is important. The videos and slides will be collected to create a movie for the class to view.=== || ===PowerPoint, Flip Camera, Windows Movie Maker=== ||
 * ===Mathematics=== || ===Jamie=== || ===Students will create a survey question and input it as part of a class survey on Survey Monkey. They will then take the survey individually using ipods or computers, answering each other's questions. Survey Monkey will tally the results and students can input the results of their individual questions into the Create-a-Graph website to create different kinds of graphs, as part of a graphing project that they will present to their peers.=== || ===Internet===

(Use of Survey Monkey and Create-a- Graph Websites)
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 * ===Music=== || ===Shelly=== || ===Students will hear or see a sound or term and identify the correct answer using their individual responder. They will answer a number of questions covering instruments, notes, etc. When a student answers their response is anonymous to the class. After all students have answered a graph is created of the class’s response. The students receive immediate feedback and they move on to the next question. In order to see how a student does individually, the teacher could align students with a numbered responder. After the activity is done a report can be printed that explains the results of each individual child and their answers.=== || ===Turning Point Responders (with SmartBoard)=== ||
 * ===Physical Education=== || ===Lee=== || ===Students will play a game of soccer both in the traditional way and using the Xbox Kinect. The Kinect allows students to play a video game version of soccer by using a camera to capture their body movements to control the onscreen character. Students will record their heart rates and analyze the results to determine which method of playing soccer is the better workout.=== || ===Xbox Kinect, heart rate monitors=== ||
 * ===Science=== || ===Shelly=== || ===**Students will discuss animals and their adaptations and then categorize them into groups of food, shelter, or defense. They will put them in groups depending on what they feel the adaptation helps the animal attain. The students will move the animal on the SmartBoard into the appropriate group.**=== || ===SmartBoard=== ||
 * ===Social Studies/History=== || ===Jamie=== || ===To show how their community has changed over time, students will gather images and other media that demonstrate what life was like in their community in the past. Students will be grouped according to the following categories listed in the history standards: business/ employment, education, transportation, technology, and recreation. Each group will use provided websites to find media to input into a "museum box" that other students will view.=== || ===Internet===

(Use of digital resources wiki site)
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