Online Projects, Collaboration Sites, and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Template

Name: Connie Tsay
Grade Level: 3rd grade
Content Area: Economics and math
Standards Addressed: Math-Numbers and operations
Technology tools to enhance learning
Title of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: Lemonade
project/Nazareth School District- Elementary Technology lessons/ Coolmath4kids/
coolmath-games
URL of Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity:
http://www.nazarethasd.k12.pa.us/Page/268 /www.coolmathgames.com/lemonade/ www.coolmath4kids.com
Describe how you would Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity
in your classroom: First I would give my students a background of
economics. After a couple weeks of background regarding values, cost,
the strategy of businesses, customer satisfaction, and etc. I would
instruct them to go on the coolmath4 kids and coolmathgames/lemonade and explain to them what we will be doing. On there,
they will learn about the process and details that go into the lemonade
selling business. After they analyze more things on these websites, they
will create an excel sheet to record decisions they made for their
business, costs, materials, and etc!
What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity
in a classroom? Computers, and within the computers, the excel program and
internet would be needed for www.coolmath-games.com/lemonade/ and
coolmath4kids.com
Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience
(note: all of them may not be addressed in the project, but most should be if you
are reaching a high LoTi Level.):
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom
and often beyond their school: This is a group project of 2-3 students
so there will be a lot of student collaboration and teamwork. The
different groups can collaborate with each other if they need help.
Furthermore, since business is an everyday essential part of our
world, they can always talk about this topic with adults (such as
parents) outside the classroom as mentors regarding this subject.
b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (collecting original
data and or producing original products as a result of engaging in the
project): the students will be pretend purchasing materials from the
site and recording the data. They will then be able to create their own
lemonade business!
c. Higher-order thinking: This project actually helps students think big
picture and allows them to understand how much work is put into an
efficient business these days!
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d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care

about their product: The students will be able to share the work with
each other with group presentations and be able to post it to the
coolmath4kids for other students to be able to compare their work.
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply):
See http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy
yes
Remembering yes Understanding yes
Applying yes
Analyzing
yes Evaluating yes
Creating
What Level of Technology Implementation best describes this learning activity and
Why? Innovation is a major implementation involved in this learning activity
because they are taking what they learn in class and from the site and actually
creating their own lemonade business. It is a higher level of thinking.
How could you implement this proposed learning experience and still comply with
your districts Internet Safety and Student Privacy policies? This lesson will
comply with my districts internet safety and student privacy policies because this
is an education-safe site

Guidance for Portfolio Entry:

Online projects are projects that are focused on technology and
completed from a site. This means a lesson can be taught in the
classroom, but the student will be working online to fully understand it.
Online collaboration sites are used to allow the student to expand upon
the online project. He or she can use these sites to learn more
information about the topic, or use it to actually complete the project.
Student publishing opportunities allow students to view other peoples
work and compare it to their own. These resources can help students
collaborate with each other and they can help each other learn the
material in a substantial manner. It allows them to think on a higher
level because technology challenges people to go out of their comfort
zone to learn information and eventually create new material. An online
project site that I learned a lot from was: http://www.everestquest.com/.
It made me realize that technology can literally help students learn with
any subject. This website involves following the trek of a famous
explorer and teaches you a lot about nature. It made me excited to
realize the potential my students can reach with resources like these.
Some valid concerns that parents may have is that their students or
children spend too much time on the internet and computer and that they
want to use school as a time for them to focus on real world models and not on
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computers. Authority figures may want more hands-on activities as well.

However, I think the end results will allow both of these parties to understand
how much more their students can thrive when technology is involved, and
how much a higher degree of learning is involved. Technology does indeed
expand horizons dramatically and offers more options for students. When
viewers look at my lesson idea template, they will be able to see what subjects
it generally covers (economics and math) and how technology can be a huge
part of understanding these two topics together.