Assignment++2

Find at least 3 lessons that you believe model good technology integration. Explain the three lessons, include the grade level, subject, title of the lesson and technology integration. The point of this assignment is to recognize the impact technology can have in your teaching.

1. http://www.vendian.org/envelope/dir2/day_of_dots/ This lesson would be appropriate for any level that teaches place value, large numbers and the passage of time. It would be virtually impossible to do this concept as well by hand. Usually by the time that students get to middle school they have a handle on the base 10 system and how to tell time but I think this website is a stitch! It uses dots set up in grids to show how many seconds there are in a day, an hour, etc. It even allows you to view the passage of time on the seconds grid. I can imagine lower grades using this when teaching about the concept of time and how it passes. It also has a link to large numbers which all of us could use. Who really understands the size of 1 trillion? Anyway this is definitely a site to incorporate into a lesson on place value.

2. http://www.ideas.wisconsin.edu/ideas_resource.cfm?rid=10096&subjects=1&sid=1&startrow=1 This is called Giraph Hunt for middle school. But I think it could be used at lower grades if some of the expectations are changed. I like the idea that a student is required to find the different types of graphs used in real situations. A power point could be used for presenting their findings as well as their questions. Requiring the students to formulate questions regarding the graphs is a very high level thinking skill. Students will exercise important math skills such as finding graphs that are used in real world situations, reading and understanding graphs, and creating questions that relate to that graph. Rather than draw these graphs by hand, the interest value comes in to play when presenting the ppt.

3. [] I have a pretty strong firewall installed and I couldn't actually open the website that is used but this was a great lesson using a kwl chart, a chart and a program to identify factors.