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Ed Tech Grant Summer Academy    July 2005
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July 12th Day 2

Learning Plan Revisited

1. 5W/5E

2. 5-E Lesson Plan Template

3. Content Resources

4. Constructivism and the Five E's

4. Open Wide and Trek Inside


Learning Skills Revisited

ICT Map Exploration


Essential Questions, Backwards Design, and Enduring Understandings (Big Ideas)

Problem-based, Project, and Inquiry Learning


1. Power Project, Problem, and Inquiry-based Learning

2. Implementing a PBL Activity

3. Using the Internet to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning

4. An Introduction to Inquiry-Based Learning

5. Problem-Based Learning Network @ IMSA

6. Why do project-based learning?

6. Project-Based Learning


PBL Examples
Language Arts
Charlotte's Web A reading comprehension lesson that includes a variety of technology and lends itself to PBL.
CyberGuides CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature.

Math
FleetKids Online ActivitiesThis site has students use their math skills as they are engaged in real-life problems of an economic nature.

The Adventures of Jasper WoodburyJasper Woodbury is a laserdisc serious that focues on problem-solving involving math. Our media center has copies available.

Science
Radically Reduced Radiolarians This PBL WebQuest has students explore the concept of radiolarians and looks at using a variety of microscopes. Several scaffolds are also used.
Try Science.org
Exploring the Environment Modules These pbl modules have been developed by the NASA Classroom of the Future program and are designed to have students explore real life environmental issues.
WISE - The Web-based Inquiry Science EnvironmentWISE is a simple yet powerful learning environment where students examine real-world evidence and analyze current scientific controversies.
Medical MysteriesThis site is a pbl interactive game that has students explore infectious diseases.
Space Day ProjectThe Design Challenges encourage children to use teamwork to
solve real-life problems facing our space pioneers.

Air Pollution: What is the Solution?Real-time data learning experience.

Social Studies
With Miles to Go Before I Sleep...This site incorporates real-time data as it involves students in an Underground Railroad simulation.

Thematic Unit
Thinking with Data: Water Scarcity in the Middle East

Technology
Learning About Web Site UsabilityThis WebQuest has students explore what goes into an effective website.

Working With WebQuests

1. The WebQuest Page

2. Adapting and Enhancing Existing WebQuests

3. Building Blocks of a WebQuest

4. The WebQuest Design Process

5. WebQuest Design Patterns

6. WebQuest Rubric


WebQuests Examples

1. Spies All Around Us!

2. Thinking with Data Water in the Middle East