BEYOND-THE-BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

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Name: Sara Dobbins
Grade Level: 1st
Content Area: Science and Language Arts
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Inspiration
Standards Addressed:
Content:
ELACC1W6 Production and Distribution of Writing:
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing,
including in collaboration with peers.
S1L1. Students will investigate the characteristics and basic needs of plants and animals.
a. Identify the basic needs of a plant.
1. Air
2. Water
3. Light
4. Nutrients
c. Identify the parts of a plantroot, stem, leaf, and flower.

Technology:
1. Creativity and innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and
processes using technology.
1. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
2. Create original works as a means of personal or group expression
6. Technology operations and concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding
of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
1. Understand and use technology systems
2. Select and use applications effectively and productively
3. Troubleshoot systems and applications
4. Transfer current knowledge to learning of new technologies

Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class:
The students will create a relationship chart, with the support of the teacher, which will start with the
main idea of Plants. Students will include as many facts and relationships that they can remember
about our unit on plants. This product will be part of a larger overall summative assessment on our
plants unit. What is cool about Inspiration is that, as students create their relationship chart, the
program will create an outline on the backside of the program. So, while students are creating a
pretty diagram, which is a fun learning experience for them, they are also creating an outline that
they can use to write a paper. My students will use the information they input into the program to
create a short informational paragraph, which will be added to their plant portfolio project.
BEYOND-THE-BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
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Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi):
LoTi Level: 4
The technology is central to the lesson and requires students to direct the learning activity and
assume adult roles. Students are discovering and making connections, while the teacher is a guide
and co-learner, because there is no predetermined correct answer.

Indicators of Engaged Learning:
This lesson has the following Indicators of Engaged Learning: standards-based content and learning
goals, challenging content and learning goals, authentic learning tasks, student-directed learning
tasks, multi-disciplinary learning tasks, explorer student role, producer student role, collaborative
social interactions, performance-based assessment, and seamless assessment. Students achieve these
indicators by integrating their content knowledge with their technological abilities to create a
product that can be shared with their peers and be used as a tool for additional projects.
Description of the sample BBPT file provided *:
The attached BBPT file is a sample of what a student might create as part of his summative
assessment portfolio. Students can customize their projects by adding in pictures that relate to the
topic as shown in the example.
Other comments about your proposed BBPT Activity:
This activity can be easily differentiated for students of all levels and abilities. There is also a more
kid friendly version of this software called Kidspiration.