Lesson Four
Title of Lesson: Show what you Know
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Technology:
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Assessment:
Objectives:
- Students will understand how to use an online blog.
- Students will have a good understanding about what culture means.
- Students will be able to point out similarities and differences between their culture and another culture.
Standards Used:
- 6. With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
- 7. Systems of transportation and communication move people, products and ideas from place to place.
- 8. Communities may include diverse cultural groups.
Materials:
- Handout about the requirements of their blog post.
- Handout about the requirements of commenting on peers blog posts.
Technology:
- kidsblog.com (User: Student 1 and Password:student1)
- epal.com
Procedure:
- Over several weeks students will have commented on my blog posts several times a week,
- After several weeks of communicating with their epal, students will create a blog post describing what they learned from their experience with their epal.
- Students will use a handout given to them by me for blog post requirements.
- After students have completed their post students will read each others post and comment on them using the requirements from a second handout.
Assessment:
- Teacher will observe student blog posts and comments to check for understanding.