TPACK: Virtual Tour

For this activity, I took my content from the Utah 5th grade core curriculum. The content is in standard four, objective one. This content consists of teaching the children about different events that helped in the expansion of the U.S., one of these important events being Lewis & Clark's expedition.

The pedagogy in this project involves the children discovery how to use a new piece of technology that is very useful in the classroom. Using Google Earth is a good fit for this project because it allows the children to track important events that happened in history, contributing to the expansion of the U.S. They will have the opportunity to look up different sites and pictures as well as write journal entries, reflecting on how the travelers must have felt after accomplishing such a great feat.

As for the technology used, the children will use Google Earth. This is an amazing tool that is new to me, that allows us to view 3-D pictures of places all over the Earth, as well as find out information about these places. By using this tool, I believe the kids eyes will be opened to an even bigger world of technology than they have ever experienced.It was very exciting for me to learn, and I believe that they will have the same positive, enlightening experience as they discover the wonderful possibilities this technology has to offer.

Virtual Tour: Starting Layout

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1.Missouri River	The students will look up the length of the river on the wiki link and write a journal entry about how they would have felt as explorers knowing they would be traveling along such a huge river.	A wiki link that directs them to info. about the Missouri River.
2. Sioux Territory	Journal entry: How they would have felt during a first encounter with the Sioux Indians	Click on a link that will bring up a journal entry from someone in L. & C's group, explaining the first encounter
3. Mount Hood	Journal entry: What would they have carved in this mountain after such a long journey?	Wiki information of what Clark carved in Mount Hood near the end of the journey
4.Fort Mandan	Draw their own map of the U.S. as if they were Clark at Fort Mandan, marking the different rivers and large terrain they crossed. This map would be sent to Jefferson	Wiki a picture of Fort Mandan where a group left from to go back to Jefferson with the map of the U.S. and info. of the plant life they had found
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Digital Storytelling: Breakfast in Bed

In case you didn't see it the first time ;)




TPACK: Storyboard

Pieces of an example Storyboard are as follows:

Standard 8, Objective 6b

For our 2nd grade lesson, we decided to focus on teaching the children about a different creative form of writing; poetry. After they have created their poem, we will be using Photo Story to help them interpret their poems through pictures they have either found online or drawn themselves. They will also be narrating the interpretation. 

In our lesson, we will be focusing on the 2nd grade Language Arts core content. Standard 8, objective 6b focuses on creating poetry amongst other forms of writing. 

In this project of Poetry Interpretation, the children will create their own piece of work by researching different topics that interest them. They will also be using a specific format of poetry; AABB format. This pedagogy fits with the content because they will be researching a topic of their choice to learn more about it, creating a poem from what they have learned, and doing so in the assigned format; AABB. 

The technology we will be using is called Photo Story. Photo Story is a good fit for our content because it allows the kids to present their poems which they have created not only in oral form but in picture interpretations as well. Photo Story fits with our pedagogy because its allows them to display what they have researched, created into a poem, and have done so in the proper format. 

TPACK Overview

For our groups science lesson this week, we chose to focus on the different stages of matter. We also focused on how temperature has an effect on water changing from a solid, then a liquid, then finally to a gas.

The pedagogy we used in our lesson included observing, acquiring data, and analyzing data. I think these strategies were a good fit to use for this content because there would be observations done by the children as they watched the water change from one stage of matter to another. They also would acquire data from the chart on the computer, and then analyze the data that was shown. This would allow them to clearly see the influence temperature has on water and its changing state.

The technology that we used in our lesson was a temperature probe that allowed us to chart information on a computer, simply by holding the probe in the different temperatures. This technology is a good fit for this content because the stages of matter are an important thing to learn about, as is the way in which temperature has an influence on those stages. By using this technology, the kids would be able to quickly see results from the probe and its interaction with the changing stages of matter and the temperatures. This technology is a good fit for our pedagogy used because it allowed them to observe the stages, acquire the data from the chart, and analyze their findings. Overall, I think this technology was a great help in making this lesson a lot more exciting and interactive.