Ms. Schiffman's First Grade Home Page

Ms. Schiffman's Thematic Internet Lesson Plans

Sandy Schiffman
Keeling Elementary School
Date: October 2000 (Four half hour sessions)
Grade Level: First Grade
Title of Lesson: Internet Project – First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See?

State Standards:

Language Arts

R-F4. Identify facts and the main idea, sequence events, define and differentiate characters, and determine an author’s purpose in a range of traditional and contemporary literature
    PO 2. Sequence a series of events from a reading selection
    PO 4. Identify the author’s main purpose (e.g., to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to describe) in a reading selection
R-F5. Analyze selections of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for their literary elements such as character, setting, plot, sequence of events and organization of text
    PO 2. Explain whether the events in the reading selection are real or fantasy
    PO 3. Describe structural elements of poetry (e.g., rhyme, rhythm, repetition)
LS-FS6. Listen and respond to stories, poems, nonfiction, and age appropriate music.
    PO 1. Attend to stories for 5-10 minutes.
    PO 2. Anticipate patterns in familiar stories (e.g., repeating phrases, rhyming).
    PO 3. Answer simple questions related to familiar story (e.g., "Was there a dog in the story?"; "What is the dog's name?").
    PO 4. Relate personal experiences to story.
LS-FS7. Participate in group discussions, activities, or peer/adult interactions.

Academic Objectives:

1. Students will listen to the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? and discuss the different animals that the author uses.
2. During a brainstorming activity, students will be able to name at least four or five different animals or objects that they see in Arizona.
3. Students will be able to chose an animal or a object to complete the sentence in a written format and draw a corresponding picture:

• Students will vote as a class on a picture that they want to send to the First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See? website.
• Students will view the other pictures on the First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See? website. (http://www.district87.org/oakland/brownbear/default.htm)
• They will buddy buzz and discuss with their partners the different animals or objects that they see.
• Students will verbally compare and contrast the types of animals and objects that they see on the website to what they find in Tucson, Arizona.
• Students will participate in the classroom discussion comparing and contrasting the objects they saw on the website while the teacher creates a venn diagram to show the similarities and the differences.

• Students will practice moving within Ms. Schiffman’s homepage and get to the appropriate site.
• Students will practice moving from screen to screen within the site.
• Students will practice scrolling down and across using the scroll bar.
• Students will practice using the back button to move to a previous site.
• Students will correctly use the terminology when referring to different parts of the computer, screen, disk drive, mouse as well as within the Windows program itself (i.e., scroll bar, back button, home button, menu bar, etc..)

• Students will know how to press the space bar to activate the computer.
• Students will know how to get to Ms. Schiffman’s First Grade homepage.
• Students will know how to follow directions in order to access the Internet Project site.
• Student will know how to use the mouse, the scroll down and across bar, back button, know how to exit a program.

Access to First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See? Website
http://www.district87.org/oakland/brownbear/default.htm
Access to Ms. Schiffman’s webpage
http://www.amphi.com/~sschiffm/index.html
Access to Ms. Schiffman’s First Grade, First Grade What do you see? PowerPoint presentation http://www.amphi.com/~sschiffm/firstgradebear/sld001.htm
Bill Martin and Eric Carle’s book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Paper for kids to draw
Chart paper for brainstorming discussions
Venn diagram

Procedures

First Day

1. Teacher will discuss with the class the fact that they will be participating in an Internet Project. She will discuss different aspects of the project i.e., joining classes from all over the country and the world reading and discussing the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? She will state the objectives and expectations for the lesson.
2. Teacher will read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? to the class for the first time alone. (During the later readings of the book, the class may join in choral readings.
3. Teacher will discuss with the class the different animals and the different colors that the author used in the book. The teacher will ask the students if they could come up with a reason why the author used different animals and colors. What was his purpose?
4. Teacher will then begin a brainstorming session with the students. She will ask the students what types of different animals and plants do we see in Arizona.
5. Students will buddy buzz and discuss with their partners the many different things that they see in Arizona. (Mountains, cactus, roadrunners, snakes, owls, etc..) Teacher will ask students to suggest things they see in Tucson. As the students volunteer, teacher will note these things on chart paper.
6. At the end of the discussion, teacher will review everything that had been written on the chart paper.

1. Teacher will remind the students of the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? They will discuss as a whole class the different animals and colors that the author used.
2. Teacher will read the book again, allowing for the class to respond chorally.
3. Teacher will review with the students the different animals and plants that were written on the chart paper previously. Any new animals or plants can be added onto the chart paper at this time. Students will chorally read each word in response to teacher direction.
4. Teacher will show the First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See? worksheet, and explain to the students the expectations. Students will chose one animal or plant to write and color. Students will first draw with a pencil, then color in with markers.
5. Students will buddy buzz and discuss what they will draw and what other things they will put in the picture.
6. Students will draw and write their responses to the question First Grade, First Grade, What do you see?
7. Students will share their drawings with their partners at the end of the activity.

1. Teacher will review with the students the previous discussions.
2. Teacher will read the book again with student participation.
3. Using the Averkey, teacher will show the web site to the students. They will explore the page as a whole class with teacher direction. (http://www.district87.org/oakland/brownbear/default.htm)
4. Teacher will ask the students to vote on the class picture that they want to send to that website.

1. At the computer lab, teacher will direct the students to explore the First Grade, First Grade, What do you see? website. (http://www.district87.org/oakland/brownbear/default.htm)
2. Afterwards, teacher will direct students to go to Ms. Schiffman’s webpage

http://www.amphi.com/~sschiffm/index.html and view the PowerPoint presentation http://www.amphi.com/~sschiffm/firstgradebear/sld001.htm showing all of the pictures generated by the class.
3. Students will buddy buzz and discuss all the different pictures and things that they saw at the First Grade, First Grade, What do you see? sites and the PowerPoint presentation.
4. During subsequent visits to the computer lab, students will be able to access the First Grade, First Grade, What do you see? website to check on new classroom pictures from around the country.
5. Teacher will direct the students to close down the Internet.
6. In the classroom, teacher will lead a discussion comparing all the different animals and objects that they observed on the website. Teacher will create a venn diagram to help show the differences and the similarities.

Students will be observed to see how well they listened to directions.
    Are they on the right site?
    Are they discussing with their partner facts learned in class and at the current site?
Students will be observed to see how well they work with each other.
    Are they able to help each other out in turning on/off the computer?
    Are they able to communicate the directions to each other?
    Can they solve the problems together?
Students will be observed during class discussions for participation and level of interest.
Students will have listened to the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? and discussed the different animals that the author used.
During a brainstorming activity, students will have named at least four or five different things that they see in Arizona.
Students will have chosen an animal or a object to complete the sentence in a written format and draw a corresponding picture:
    First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See? I see a __________ looking at me.
Students will have voted as a class on a picture that they want to sent to the First Grade, First Grade, What Do You See? website.
Students will have viewed the other pictures that schools sent in on the website. They will have buddy buzzed and discussed with their partners the different things that they see around the country.
Students will be observed as they verbally compare and contrast the types of animals and objects that they see on the website to what they find in Tucson, Arizona.
Students will be observed to see if they have actively participated in the classroom creation of a venn diagram.