Assessing Prior Knowledge and Planning Instruction
Prior to this lesson, students need to know about the animals and plants that life in the ocean. When they learn how oil and pollutants affect the water in a harmful way they will realize that it hurts the animal and plant life. Prior knowledge and experience will be assessed by, after reading the book having our discussion on thoughts and feelings towards it. Student will bring up what they already know about the ocean and water. I will use this information to see what information we can overlook and what we need to spend more time on. The content of this lesson should be taught at the fourth grade level because they can now understand that they make a difference in the world and have the power to help change things. The objectives align with the standards because the overall goal is to learn how pollutants such as oil impact plants, animals, and humans which goes along with our science and social studies standards. This lesson will be taught after learning the life cycles of plants and animals and before learning about global warming. The students will be able to use background knowledge and then be able to build off this topic with new information in the future.
Designing Instruction (InTask Standards 7 and 8):
I am using the instructional methods I have described because it uses a variety of techniques that are affective, engaging, and interesting to the students. The instructional methods align with the best practices because we are reading, writing, doing a project, drawing, working alone, and then in groups. Students will be experiencing hands on activities, having choice, and being creative. I am engaging students in this way to promote higher order thinking. They have to create, analyze, evaluate, and apply throughout this lesson to move onto the next learning step.
Planning Assessment (InTask Standard 6):
The assessment aligns with the standards and objectives of this lesson by checking for understanding of how oil interacts with water, the oceans ecosystem, and the affects the ocean has on humans, animals, and plants. The standards include changes in the environment and science in personal and social perspectives. The assessments demonstrate how successful the students learning is by filling out their observations on the activity worksheet, sharing their interesting facts, getting a grade on the quiz, and creating their proposal for preventing oil spills. This also demonstrates their engagement by using multiple different tools in the higher order thinking process. Individual needs of students are met by the teacher being able to assess them in different ways so that if they do not succeed in one area they have other opportunities to prove themselves in others. There are visuals, sound options, and partner work to meet diverse learners needs.
How does your lesson meet each of the ISTE NETs Standards?
My lesson facilitates and inspires student learning and creativity by having them do a hands on activity that lets them see first hand and make their own observations on pollutants in water. My lesson provides digital-age learning experiences and assessments by using the projector, computers, and tablets for videos, quizzes, and notes. Sometimes I am modeling the technology and other times the students are themselves. We will all be working together and at the same pace so there is no time to get side tracked with other things our technology devices can be used for. Students will be responsible and take the lesson seriously since they are interested in the subject and to move on to the next activity. The main website we are using is for student and teachers that does not provide ads or any unsafe content fro young users. The ocean affects all cultures and the entire world so all learners will need this information in their life.
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