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The plan will have five parts: 1. Outline Form Defining Unit Plan and its Alignment to State Content and Technology Standards 2. Teacher PowerPoint introducing the tech project to students 3. Student Prototype Project meeting teacher requirements 4. Formative Assessment Narrative 5. Summative Assessment Rubrics: Must explain how students will be graded on content, software use, and presentation 6. Quizzes or tests - though activity should be project based |
About the OUTLINE: The Outline Form is the introductory document for those viewing your technology-project-based lesson plan (namely, me). It summarizes and standardizes all the necessary details about your project. It is also where you show your project aligns with necessary content and technology standards. Please view the examples to see what information is required. A blank template is wating for you inside the downloadable Folder Structure ZIP File in the Tech Unit folder. |
About the TEACHER POWERPOINT: Your teacher PowerPoint is to focus on how students create their own tech project, not on teaching the specific content that comes before assigning the tech project. To clarify: A technology-project-based lesson plan does not require teachers to teach or introduce the content with technology. The content - be it math, science, gymnastics, baseball, literature, history, geography - can be taught any way that works best, in the field, via lectures, guest speakers, group activities, field trips, textbooks, the Internet, or whatever. How you teach the content before you assign the tech project is not part of this assignment. Your presentation will focus exclusively on how students will develop their tech-infused project. Sample Scenario: Mr. Smith teaches volcanoes by lecture, reading the chapter in the geography textbook, watching a film, and creating an active volcano using household chemicals. Now, Mr. Smith wants his students to research a volcano on the Internet, gather data, and create a PowerPoint sharing their discoveries with their classmates. Mr. Smith creates his own PowerPoint to introduce the necessary steps in developing the tech project to his students. IN SHORT: Do not teach us, the students in EDU741, all about volcanos. Teach us how to do a tech project about volcanoes. The teacher PowerPoint must cover in some form or fashion the following bulleted points:
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About the STUDENT PROJECT: This is child's play for you. Make a tech presentation as if you were a student in your own class. Make what you would consider an exemplary "grade A" project. Have some fun. Use multimedia and animation and color and sound and all the nifty stuff kids might use. The student project can use any software application or Web 2.0 site or combination. |
About GOALS and OBJECTIVES Goals: Broad, generalized statementsabout what is to be learned Objectives: Specific, measurable, short-term observable student behaviors |
About the FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT NARRATIVE: This is the type of ungraded assessment and feedback you give while the project is unfolding to make certain your students are staying on task and going in the right direction. It is to be written as a Word or .rtf document in paragraph form with a standard heading. |
About the SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT RUBRICS: You will need two rubrics. One rubric will measure students' understanding of the content. One rubric will measure students' use of technology. Create your rubrics at RubiStar and make life easy on yourself . Create each rubric at Rubistar, then copy and paste each rubric into a separate Word document. Modify the content of the rubrics as necessary. |
