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Computer / Once Projector Lesson Plan Design Challenge

Lesson Plan: Students will produce a class newsletter. Everyone will contribute an
article or an idea to the newsletter.
ISTE Standards: 1. C: Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal
and clarify students conceptual understanding and thinking, planning and creative
processes.
Each of the students will be working in groups of 5 (6 groups).
1. Each group will take their turn on the computer researching different ideas
for the newsletter.
2. While the other students will be brainstorming ideas and thoughts as to what
they want to look up on the computer when it is their groups turn to use the
computer.
3. After each group has printed the article or idea they plan to use, students will
return to their desks and will each write a summary of the article, why they
chose the article, and what they found most interesting in the article.
4. While the students are completing this, I will have the projector on with a
step by step process of how to cite on-line articles in APA style.
5. After the students have competed the necessary material for their part of the
newsletter, they will look at the projector screen to cite their article correctly
in APA format.
6. After each group has finished, they will give their work to different group to
be peer reviewed.
7. Once this is complete, each student will have the opportunity to present one
of the three required pieces of their paper to the class.
8. After everyone has had a chance to present, the students will turn in their
papers where I will type up each students responses onto a newsletter
format where I will also add some music for the background.
9. After all is completed, the link to the newsletter site will be sent out to every
family of the students so they will be able to stay interactive with their
parents and show them what they have been working on in the classroom.