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Lesson
Plan for China - Virtual Fieldtrip 2006-2007
Objectives:
Social
Studies: Learning more about cultures around the globe.
Language Arts: Reading, writing, listening, and viewing.
Technology: Mouse skills, navigation on the network, going to
Internet Explorer, use of Back Button, clicking on hyperlinks,
scrolling down a webpage, blogging, Internet safety, use
of Word or PowerPoint, copying and pasting, saving documents or
presentation, citing resources and the social and ethical issues of
using technology.
Overview:
Week
One: Introduce website and what a virtual fieldtrip is. Explain what
blogging is and the importance of Internet safety issues. Students
get Chinese name. Week Two: Show the blogging website, show how to
do digital scrapbook and do Shanghai Learning Log. Week Three:
Students do virtual Yangtze learning log, read my blog and write
comment. Students work on their digital scrapbook. Week Four:
Students do virtual Terracotta Army, read and respond to my blog,
and work on digital scrapbook. Week Five: Students work on virtual
Beijing and Great Wall, read and respond to my blog, and work on
digital scrapbook. Week Six: Do a trip wrap up question and answer
session and show digital scrapbooks.
Learner Outcomes:
Students will compete learning logs on locations in China.
Students will blog Mrs. Novak while she is in China. Student will create
a digital scrapbook on China.
Curriculum Standards
See
Curriculum
Standards
Materials:
Computers,
streaming videos, SmartBoard, lcd projector, pencils, Word or PowerPoint
software, learning logs, and grading rubrics.
Procedure:.
Week One
1.) Using the SmartBoard or large screen monitor, introduce the
virtual Fieldtrip concept and website.
2.) Show the video
“China: From Past to Present: Geography, Traditional Religions, and
Beliefs" segment 2 (The Geography of China ) three minutes,
then
“China: From Past to Present: Life in
the Ancient Capital Cities” segments 1 (A Brief History of the
Civilization of China),2 (City Defenses, Towers, and
Neighborhoods),3 (Traditional Food and Markets), and 4.(The Emperors
of China) seven minutes. Go to get Chinese name. Have students
print out their Chinese names.
Week Two
1.) Using the SmartBoard or large screen monitor, take students to
Virtual Field Trip China website again and the link to the blog. Go
to the blog and do a group reading of the website. Talk about what
is expected in a student posting to the blog and the editing
process. Show how to post.
2.) Show the video “China: From Past: The Silk Road, the Great Wall,
Changes in Government“ show segment 1 (China’s Transformation
Through the Ages), segment 11 “Modern China: The People’s Republic
of China” (3 minutes). Briefly discuss the video clip.
“Changing China: Urban Development in Shanghai” segments 1
(Introduction) and 4.(The changing Face of the City (seven
minutes).
3.) Show students how to get to and do the learning log for
Shanghai.
4.) Have students go to computers and complete learning log on
Shanghai.
5.) Ask individual teachers how they wish to do the blog with their
students.
6.) Work with teachers to set up learning groups for the blogging
experience keeping in mind not only technology skills but language
arts skills in reading and writing.
Week Three
1.) Using the SmartBoard or large screen monitor, show the video
Changing China: Three Gorges Dam segment 1 (Introduction) and
segment 2 (The Need for a Dam).
2) Go to the Virtual Field Trip China website and then go to the
blog. Do a group reading of the website and look at the latest
pictures.
3.) Have one of the following: a. individual students respond to
blog (students go to computers), b. a small group of students
respond to the blog (students go to the computers) or c. the whole
class creates a posting to Mrs. Novak’s blog. Brainstorming a class
response to the post can be done using the SmartBoard notes function
or teacher directly typing in the blog.
4.) Students do learning log on Virtual Shanghai.
5.) Students work on their digital scrapbook.
Week Four
1.) Using the SmartBoard or large screen monitor, take students
to the Virtual Field Trip China website and go to the blog. Do a
group reading of the website and look at the latest pictures.
2.) Have one of the following: a. individual students respond to
blog (students go to computers), b. a small group of students
respond to the blog (students go to the computers) or c. the whole
class creates a posting to Mrs. Novak’s blog. Brainstorming a class
response to the post can be done using the SmartBoard notes function
or teacher directly typing in the blog.
3.) Students do learning log on A Terracotta Army.
4.) Students work on their digital scrapbook.
Week Five
1.) Using the SmartBoard or large screen monitor, go to BrainPop and
do the Great Wall of China. Play video “Discovery Atlas: China
Revealed: Short Stories” segment 1 (The Great Wall) and segment 2
(The Forbidden City) total of five minutes.
2.) Go to the Virtual Field Trip China website and then go to the
blog. Do a group reading of the website and look at the latest
pictures. Have one of the following: a. individual students respond
to blog (students go to computers), b. a small group of students
respond to the blog (students go to the computers) or c. the whole
class creates a posting to Mrs. Novak’s blog. Brainstorming a class
response to the post can be done using the SmartBoard notes function
or teacher directly typing in the blog.
3.) Students do learning log and choose between learning log on The
Great Wall of China or Virtual Beijing.
4.) Students work on their digital scrapbook.
Week Six
1.) Mrs. Novak to do a short wrap up question and answer session with students (no
more than 15 minutes).
2.) Handout the grading rubric and scrap paper to each student. Go over grading rubric for either a
Word or PowerPoint digital scrapbook.
Using
the rubric, students will grade each digital scrapbook. Highest graded scrapbooks
(by students) will be reviewed by classroom teacher and Mrs. Novak.
Best student work will go on Mrs. Novak’s website.
3.) Ask for volunteers and have students present their digital
scrapbooks using the SmartBoard or large screen monitor.
Assessment:
Go to
Learning Log Rubric .
Go to Rubric
for Word China Scrapbook for the rubric
for a Word digital scrapbook.
Go to
Rubric
for PowerPoint China Scrapbook for the
rubric for a PowerPoint digital scrapbook
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