Ed Tech Grant
Global Communication Collaborative


Week 10 - January 7th
Real Time Data  (Lesson Plan due January 21, 2003)
The Internet provides information on many subjects and topics, but one of the best attributes that the Internet provides for students is access to current data that they wouldn’t be able to get from any other source than the Internet.  Real time data is dynamic changing information such as weather conditions, migratory patterns of animals, current news stories, stock market prices, census data, or volcano and earthquake events. Textbooks and many publications contain information that students can use, but it can be outdated as soon as it is printed.  Scientists and others are now posting information on the Internet that can be used by students to analyze and evaluate.  Used effectively, these sites allow students to become actively involved in their learning and assume the role of researchers exploring trends and correlations and creating their own connections.

Teachers and students can access real time data and use it in problem solving lessons.  The idea is not to give students more numbers to memorize but to give them meaningful activities to solve real life problems.  For example, give them information about their community and water use or garbage collection amounts and compare them with other areas and get them to determine how they could create a conservation program.  There are many sites that provide current and up-to-date information for students to use and there are real time data projects that students can participate on with other students from all over the world.  In some projects students work with scientists to solve problems or gather data and publish data.  Using real time data with students can make a subject come to life and provide students with the necessary problem solving skills to contribute to society.

 Return to Week 7 for a list of background materials and Student Publishing Sites.

Arizona State Standards
Technology and Academic Standards you can copy and paste

Writing Objectives
In your lesson plan you will need to write academic and technology objectives that describe student behavior or performance necessary to determine accurately whether or not a student has met the objectives. The parts of an instructional objective are:

1. Conditions (a statement that describes the conditions under which the behavior is to be performed)
2. Behavioral Verb (an action word that denotes an observable student behavior)
3. Criteria (a statement that specifies how well the student must perform the behavior).

Writing Behavioral Objectives
How to Write Effective Behavioral Objectives

Higher Level Thinking Skills
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy Model Questions and Key Words
Question types
The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

Accomodations for Special Needs
Meeting the needs of ALL students in your classroom requires thorough planning. You must write accomodations for your special education, limited English proficient, and gifted students.  You can accomodate the task, content, process,  product, and assessment based on student readiness, interests, and learning profile.

Differentiating Instruction Finding Manageable Ways to Meet Individual Needs
Strategies for Differentiating
Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades
Differentiating Instruction For Advanced Learners In the Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom

Unbeatable Ways to Reach Your LEP Students
Strategies for Involving LEP Students in the Mainstream Classroom (PDF file)
Teaching ESL Students in the Mainstreamed Classroom
Tips for Teaching Improving Academic Success for Diverse-Language Learners
Practical Ideas On Alternative Assessment for ESL Students

Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students. ERIC Digest #E510
Curriculum Differentiation for Gifted and Talented
Strategies for Teaching Gifted Students in the Inclusive Classroom
Adapt Lessons to Reach All Students

Modifications for Students with Tourette Syndrome, Attention-Deficit Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Suggested Classroom Interventions For Children With ADD & Learning Disabilities
Inclusion Accomodations Checklist
Inclusion, Yours, Mine and Ours
Adaptations and Modifications for Special Needs Students
Special Education Guide for Mainstream Teachers (pdf)

Assessment
Specific Student Assessment Techniques
Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments. ERIC Digest E531
Kathy Schrock’s Assessment and Rubric Information
Alaska Department of Education Collection of Assessment Strategies
Performance Assessment and Rubrics
ASCD Performance Assessment Tutorial
PE Central Assessment Ideas
Alternative Assessment
Online Resources for Assessment

The Staff Room—Samples of Rubrics
Designing a Rubric
PBL Checklists
Rubistar
Rubrics Generators



Handouts
Lesson Plan

Evaluation Forms
Self Evaluation
Peer Evaluation
Evaluation after Teaching the Lesson


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