Week 5 -- February 6 & 8, 2012
School Using Project-Based Learning/Introduction to TaskStream and Lesson Plan 1

Checkpoint | Lecture | Reading Reflection | Assignment | Rubric | Resources

CHECK POINT
  • Responses to Reading Reflection #2 - due by 11:59 p.m., Monday, February 6, 2012.
  • Assignment III - Web evalution due by 11:59 p.m., Friday, February 10, 2012.
  • Assignment IV - Parts A & B - due by 11:59 p.m., on Friday, February 10, 2012.
  • Reading Reflection #3 - due by 11:59 p.m. Friday, February 10, 2012.
  • Responses to Reading Reflection #3 - due by 11:59 p.m. Monday, February 13, 2012.
  • Assignment II - Part B -- Revised Collaborative Inspiration - due by 11:59 p.m., March, 2, 2012.
LECTURE

Revisit Project Based Learning - Start KWL Chart

Project-based Learning Examples PowerPoint
READING REFLECTION #3

NOTE: Reflections will be posted each week to your group blog. Responses to other groups reflections on their blogs will be a comment post to those reflections. Please see rubric for Reading Reflections..

Covers Chapter 3, Imagining the Possibilities, in Reinventing Project-Based Learning, p. 42 to 58.

Your reflection should include:

  1. Discussion on what should be considered in finding “the Big Idea” for a project.
  2. Discussion on the 2lst Century skills.
  3. Discussion on the 21st Century literacies.
  4. Discussion on each of the essential learning functions.
  5. Discussion on how concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

DUE DATE: Reflection is due by Friday, February10, 2012. Responses to two other groups' reflections are due by Monday, February 13, 2012.
ASSIGNMENT V

Writing a Technology Integrated Lesson Plan Using TaskStream, Hot list, and Web Safety Using TaskStream, the student will write a lesson plan for an elementary classroom. Your lesson plan MUST focus on a concept within your Project and each member of your team MUST create a different lesson plan. You will need to discuss in lab and post in Blog (as a comment) which team member will work on which lesson plan. If two members of the team use the same lesson, neither will receive points for this assignment. The lesson plan should include:

  • Michigan Grade Level Content Expectations
  • ISTE: National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation
  • a hot list of subject-appropriate and age-level appropriate Web sites.
  • integration of Safe Surfing on the Web into lesson plan
  • assessment criteria for the lesson activity on a rubric developed in the Rubric Wizard and attached to the lesson plan.
  • under objective: 1. Goal: a statement of what students will take away from the lesson; and 2. Objectives: a list of statements of what students will do which are measurable.

SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENT: Once you have completed your lesson plan, it is turned in through Taskstream. Please follow these steps:

1. Be sure that you have created lesson plan, using the TS Basic template, and ALL attachments (i.e. rubric, hot list, etc.)

2. Review Rubric for Lesson Plan One (in Rubric section) and make sure you have all requirements.

3. Click on the "Request Feedback" button.

4. Click in the box next to your instructor's name.

5. Be sure and go back into TaskStream to read comments once you have received points for this assignment.

DUE DATE: Submit through TaskStream by 11:59 p.m., Friday, February 17, 2012.

NOTE: All assignments have specific due dates. Late assignments will lose 10 points for each WEEK they are late. NO EXCEPTIONS!

 
RUBRIC

Rubric for Lesson Plan One

Reading Reflection Rubric
RESOURCES

Skype - Free download.

REMINDER: Once your lesson plan is completed you turn it in by selecting the "Share with Reviewer" button.

Check out the ADPRIMA Web site for help with objectives and lesson plans.

Also check out Developing Goals and Objectives

Safe Surfing on the Web through the Kaboose Kids Domain web site

Web Surfing Safety through FamilyFun.com

Sample Lesson Plan:

The sample lesson plan below is an example of the kind of product you should be developing for this lesson. It includes:

  • a handout for students that includes a hot list of Web sites to be used for this directed search;
  • integration of Safe Surfing into lesson plan
  • a rubric that will be used in assessing the assignment done by students.

You can access each part of this sample by clicking on the link below and then clicking on the appropriate links in the lesson plan.

Remember, you MUST use TaskStream's Rubric Wizard for this assignment. You can find a free rubric builder to use in other classes at Landmarks for Schools.

 
COURSE CONTACTS
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Sharon Peterson. Sharon's office is 1412 Sangren, 269-387-3850. Also, if you have any question about a grade, please contact Sharon Peterson directly and do not send a message to all instructors or carbon copy another instructor, which may result in unnecessary delay, duplication and confusion. Sharon will screen the messages and if necessary send it on to the appropriate person.

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