Beware of Lightning

Standards and Frameworks

Technology Standards

3T-F1. Use prescribed technology writing or drawing tools for communicating and illustrating

Academic Standards

Science- 1SC-F1. Plan, design, conduct and report on the conclusions of basic experiments
Writing- W-F4. Gather, organize and accurately, clearly and sequentially report information gained from personal observations and experiences such as science experiments,

Objectives

Academic

Students will predict how lightning occurs based on their observation and previous knowledge. (Synthesis).

Students will apply their experiment materials and classify items in relation to actual principle. (Application and Analysis)

Students will evaluate the experiment and decide if this experiment is a good representation of formation of lightning or changes should occur. (Evaluation)

Technological

Students will use their typing skills to type in the URL address.

Students will use their mouse to move up and down as well as clicking on the pictures and to go backwards.

Students will use Word to make their T-chart for comparing prediction with principle.

Pre-Requisite Technology Skills
Students will have taken several typing lessons.
Students will have already done several assignments on Word.
Students will have learned how to move the mouse around the Internet.
Students will have learned how to enter URL addresses.
Students will have learned how to use the printer.

Materials
6 computers
1 Handout/group
1 set of experiment materials (aluminum pie pan, wool material, tack, pencil with new eraser, and styrofoam plate)

Accommodations for Special Needs
One student will need light worksheets to work on in another classroom.
Extra extentions of this activity will be provided for groups that complete their lesson.

Procedures
1. Students will be placed in groups of 4 and be given a handout.
2. Groups will sit at their stations and begin to act out their jobs (recorder, supplier, reader, time keeper).
3. Recorders will type group prediction of how lightning works on the T-chart. The reader will read what the recorder types so that he/she can catch the typing errors. The timekeeper will have to keep watch of time so that group will complete their
lesson in the amount of time given.
4. Group will allow the teacher to read their prediction and answer two questions about their prediction.
5. The supplier will obtain the necessary experiment materials while the reader tells the recorder the URL address.
6. Group takes part in completing the experiment with the reader reading the site directions, the supplier working with the material, the recorder writing down results and what they think each material acts as onto the handout, and the time- keeper keeping watch of the clock.
7. Group will finish the T-chart by having the recorder type in their understanding based on the information from the Internet site and from their experimentation.
8. The recorder will type group's evaluation and changes that they would make.

Assessment
1. Each group will print out their T-chart and hand it in with their handout.
2. Teacher will keep record of the two questions answered by the groups reflecting their typed prediction.
3. Teacher will keep running record of groups working quietly, cooperatively, and in remaining on task.

Teacher Name: Katie Johnson
Site: Keeling
Date Submitted: October 1, 2001