Google Earth Plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1.Grand Canyon (Arizona)	Which river carves this steep sided gorge? Draw how you think this happens.	Terrain tool, Wikipedia
2.Mt. Everest (Nepal/Tibet)	Which mtn range? Heigth?	Wikipedia
3.Sahara Desert	This desert gets its name from the Arabic word Sahra. See if you can find out what this word means.	Wikipedia
4.Angel waterfall (Venezuela)	Write down how tall you predict 3,212 feet to be. About how many yardsticks would that be?	Panoramio
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	path tool to show the path of our tour.

Content: Standard 3 (Develop an understanding of environment) Objective 3 (Demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment. The technology objective we used in digital storytelling is also appropriate!

Pedagogy/Technology: The content for this lesson is for the younger grades. I was thinking first or second. Thus, I think it would be fun to read a book that talks about different features of the world that are natural. I have not yet looked up specifics though. This will make children more excited and curious as to what the next part of the lesson will be. After the book, we can talk together as a class about different features formed naturally. This will help children better understand their environment. We will then use Google Earth to look up some of the features from the book, and also use Google Earth to do the virtual tour of four natural features that I found. This will be good for children because they can actually go to features formed naturally. Hopefully they can get a good idea of these features and what they look like. They will also have a better understanding of where these features are located.

Digital Storytelling-My digital story!

Here is where one can go to watch the digital story that my younger siblings and I created. ENJOY!

Storyboard

Over the long weekend I got to work on my digital story with my younger siblings. I haven't yet posted my storyboard because I worked on it over the weekend with them. They drew all of the pictures and helped with the taking and organization of the pictures. They also helped me in writing the story. It was quite fun! They are all very excited to see the final product. So, since I haven't yet posted the storyboard, here it is!

Week 5-Digital Storytelling/TPACK

I am going home for the long President's Day weekend and have decided to do my digital story with my younger siblings. The three youngest siblings are adopted from China. They are all in the second grade, but they aren't triplets. I thought it would be neat to work with them on a story. Two of them even received cameras for Christmas, so they will think it's pretty fun to make stories out of their pictures. Because they are from China, I thought it would be neat to do a "family story" and let them do a short autobiography about themselves. I will be doing it this weekend, thus, I have no photos, music, etc. I just have ideas of what I want to do. I will focus on the K-3 Language Arts Standard 1, Objective 2, which is specifically about what we are doing-stories and technology (media). I will also be focusing on the K-3 Core Content Standard 2, Objective 1 which deals with the family and relationships in the family. My younger siblings and I will do a family story with photos and music. We will work on the storyboard together as well. After the digital story is finished, I will let them explore with their own cameras and try to make one up themselves. (Pedagogy) For Technology, I will load photostory on our home computer so that they can work with that as well.

TPACK for Tech Savvy Teacher

The content that I will be using in my science lesson deals with health and the importance of a healthy, balanced diet.  Second graders will learn about the different food groups and the importance of each food group.  At the end of the lesson, they will create their own healthy, balanced diet.

The pedagogy in the lesson is doing hands-on activities.  I know that I learn best by doing.  Thus, students will be doing hands-on activities during the teaching and learning process.  One of these activities is using technology-Kidsperation and digital cameras to be exact-to sort foods into food groups and then create their own balanced diet.  Both the pedagogy and technology fit extremely well with the content because they both deal with exactly what is to be studied.