Sariah Gresham

College of Southern Nevada

March 1, 2017

Sariah Gresham
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In todays society it is a requirement to teach and learn with technology. We use

technology in our daily lives, it is all around us. Electronics will be a part of our future

and our children are the future so isn't it common sense to have to electronics be part of

the way we teach in school. If we aren't using these great tools, we are setting

ourselves in the past instead of the future. Students need to learn how to type, use the

internet for educational and professional purposes, and use basic softwares such as

word. Not only does technology help teach and teach basic skills but for some assistive

technology improves capabilities of students with disabilities. Every child deserves

equal opportunity. Electronics are being used to help schoolchildren learn math, writing,

and reading, the same subjects that the standardized tests on are. Technology helps

students, teachers, parents, and staff. Using technology with teaching has helped every

student from ones with disabilities to ones who's first language isn't English.

Name of lesson: Fun Facts about the States

Grade Level Appropriateness: 8th grade

Technology Content Standard Addressed:

CCSD Standards:
-Demonstrates proficiency and accuracy in keyboarding skills.
-Type, edit and print a document.
-Use advanced formatting techniques such as margins, line spacing and tabs.
-Import graphics with appropriate placement.
-With teacher and or media specialist assistance select a research topic or develop a
statement of a problem and identify its elements, scope, and expected outcomes.

Other Content Standard Addressed:

Language Arts:
-Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective
technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Reading:
-Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals,
ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).
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Objective:
Identify trustworthy web source for information
Know how to use research skills and word software tools when making their photo
collage.
Know how to properly type while creatively writing a story.

Materials needed to facilitate the lesson:

Computer, internet, word software, printer

Suggested group size: 1

Procedures:
1. Assign students randomly one US state. (No repeats)
2. Students will research facts about their assigned state while making a photo collage
about the facts they research using a word software. (copy and paste photos)
They must turn the page to landscape, have the title of their assigned state in the
collage, and must label most of the photos. Make sure they don't forget to put their
name in the header. Save the collages into their student folder.
3. When most of the students are done with their collages announce that they will now
type a fictional story that takes place in their assigned state using a new word file.
Story must be at least one page double spaced and include at least two facts that
are in their collage. Make sure they don't forget to put their name in the header.
Print the stories out and save them in their student folder.

Assessment: For computer assignments, I will be using a portfolio assessment. All of

their computer assignments will be saved into their student folders in the schools
computer storage system. At the end of the year the students and parents will be able to
see how much has been accomplished.
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Part of Sample:

One hot sunny day in Nevada, a Jackrabbit was resting under a Joshua tree. The

Jackrabbit was tired from searching for water all day. He was beginning to feel hopeless

until he saw a Desert Tortoise walking by. The Jackrabbit jumps up thinking to himself

that Desert Tortoises always know where some water is, as he hops over to the tortoise.

The Jackrabbit quickly and excitedly introduces himself as Jack and asks if the tortoise

knows where some water is because he has been thirsty all day looking for some. The

tortoise slowly replies that her name is Shelly and that she wont tell him where water is.

Jack jumps back in shock, asking her many questions wanting to know why she wont

tell him. Shelly replies,If I tell you where water is, you will just leave and forget about

me. Thats what everyone does. No one wants to be a friend until they need something.

For once Jack stays quiet while he thinks about what Shelly said. Jack comes up with

an idea. Shelly!, he yells, Come with me to the water. We can talk and hang out on

the way there and while we drink. Come on! Just give it a try old gal. Shelly pauses for

a long time before she agrees to show him the way. It felt like a long journey for Jack. In

the beginning Jack talked nonstop about himself while Shelly listened but after a while

his thirst forced to keep his mouth closed. He was upset he couldn't talk anymore but

then Shelly started talking. She talked about the many things she has seen in her life,

the good and the bad. The pain she went through when her parents left but how happy

she was when she had a baby. Jack realized it was a good thing he couldn't talk for a

while, he had learned so much. They reached the water together. Shelly said,Thank

you Jack for listening to me and being good company. Jack replied,I had a great time!

Lets do it again sometime.