21st Century Teaching and Learning with Digital Media

Discovery Education

IPS 21st Century Cadre“Great Expectations”

By the end of this school year you are being asked to:

Complete and upload three units (lesson plans) of study to MediaShare

Upload three student created projects in MediaShare •Multimedia Presentation, Digital Story, Link to Web 2.0 Project•Projects should demonstrate students tackling essential questions

Tasks• Revisit our Edmodo Teacher group:

– Go to http://edmodo.com

• Respond to the top post.

GoalsGoals• Collect content to use in standards-based lessons

infused with digital media to engage students in curriculum

• Plan for student projects that emphasize 21st Century Skills and require higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Share project plans including essential question(s), key vocabulary, technology tools, guiding rubric.

Instructional Strategies• Play & Pause• Observation Chart• I Am Poem• Graphic Organizers• Three Truths and a Lie• Vocabulary Journal• Exit Tickets - Google

Form

• Multiple Perspectives• Wordle Note Taking &

Summarize• Hear the Sound• Half the Story• Avid Strategies• More: _____________

Count DownJennifer’s

Five Favorite Instructional Strategies

Observation Chart(with Sound)

What do you see?

What do you hear?

What do you wonder?

What do you realize?

Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt• encounter• native• fertilize• colonist• befriend• inhabit• displace• unfamiliar• pilgrim Pilgrims Found Pl

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Vocabulary Powerpoint Journal

Vocabulary JournalWord Define

In your own wordsExampleUse in context

Sketch

3 Truths and 1 Lie1. The Aztec culture was very

advanced. Evidence of this is the fact that they could write in pictographs.

2. The Aztec emperor position was hereditary, passed down from father to son.

3. The inhabitants of the Aztec empire had to pay very high taxes.

4. The Aztecs often made human sacrifices to their gods.The Aztecs

Choose a role to play from the Boston Massacre: Loyalist, Patriot, or British Soldier. Use your understanding about the Boston Massacre to write an I am poem from the perspective of your person. The poem should begin and end with “I am…”

I am…I feel…I need…I fear…I hope…I am…

Multiple PerspectivesI Am Poem

The Boston Massacre: Facts and Fiction

Key Words and Summarization With Wordle

On this day in history...

Where in the world...

Gradual Release of ResponsibilityLet the Students Lead

• Students gather (or teacher assigns) DE resources to lead a lesson using one of these instructional strategies– Observation Chart (collect photos and sound on topic)– Multiple Perspectives, I am Poem– Three Truths and a Lie– Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt & Journal– Wordle Key Words and Summarization (Guess the World)– Weebly - web site– Prezi - online presentation

Think Pair ShareWhich strategy have you used most successfully? Which one

is your favorite?

Which strategies have your students used? Which would you

like to try with students?

Options for Sharing Resources with your students

• Assign a folder of materials in My Content• Build an Assignment and assign to class• Find a specific resource and assign it

directly to your class• Show students how to search and build

their own Favorites folder

Pacing Guides

Aim Higher with Blooms

Essential Questions Drive Learning ??

Create Something toAnswer the Essential Question

• Digital Story– Travel Back in Time (Compare/Contrast)– Historical Documentary (Share Perspective)– Public Service Announcement

• Web Page– National History Day– Weebly– Embed Instuctional Strategies alongside Discovery resources

• Music Video– Lodge McCammon Songss– Use Teacher’s Guide under Related Materials

Plan for Student Success• Provide essential question and guiding questions

to be answered in project• Provide a Rubric so that students can aim high• Introduce with your sample project• Require use of a storyboard (or other device) to

plan project• Students collect and download Discovery resources• Set time limits for steps in project completion• Share projects with a greater audience (such as

Edmodo)

Task

• Write an essential question(s)• Write guiding questions

– Use the 5 areas of Thinking Like a Historian• Collect resources if necessary• Plan for Student Project• Create a Sample Student Project (I do)• Create/Identify Rubric for Assessment

• Cause and Effect• Change and Continuity• Turning Points• Using the Past• Through Their Eyes

Guiding Questions

Thinking Like

a Historian

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

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Creating Quality Rubrics & Surveysfor Project Based Learning Activities

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