Online Projects, Collaboration Sites and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Name: Cyber Fair Competition

Content Area: Science
Grade Level(s): 5th grade
Content Standard Addressed: S5CS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty,
openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the
world works.

Technology Standard Addressed: 2d. Students manage their personal data to maintain digital privacy and
security and are aware of data-collection technology used to track their navigation online.

Selected Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity: The CyberFair

URL(s) to support the lesson: http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsncf/

Describe how you would incorporate an Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity in your
classroom: For this project I would like my students to create a video story, showcasing the local fruits and
vegetables grown in their community. They will need to list the different fruits and vegetables and be able to
give multiples facts on them. They will then be asked to go out into their community and collect data from
teens and adults, asking if they were aware of the different fruits and vegetables grown in their own
community, and if they would buy local produce if it were offered. Students will get 5-10 responses from
people (with the company of their parents), and keep track of their data by using Microsoft Excel.
Because I’m sure there will be many questions throughout this lesson, I will be sure to post some of my
student questions in the teacher blog that GlobalSchoolNet.com offers. Doing it this way will alleviate any
worries from parents who may be skeptical of their children speaking directly with strangers online,
upholding the internet safety policies. Once the data and research is collected, students will need to make a
video presentation with iMovie or another approved application, to display their work. They will be graded
before they are judged based off of the way the presentation looks (is it neat), and if the information
accurate. I will then help them in turning in their presentation to the website to be judged, and we will wait to
see if we won anything from the CyberFair.

What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a classroom?:
Computers, Books made for the plans and animals in the community, time, some parent participation.

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: Students will collaborate with the citizens in their community (outside of the classroom) and
collect necessary data.

b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (creating original data and or producing original
products as a result of engaging in a project): Because students have to physically go out into the
community, this is solely going to be student-centered learning. Students have to collect data from the
people and plants around he to be able to successfully complete the assignment.

c. Higher-order thinking: Students will be partaking in higher order thinking because they do not have
any prior knowledge of the data that needs to be collected, they would have to do extensive research
to be able to find the information.

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d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their product: The judges
for the competition and the community around the student will care about this project because it
applies to them and the natural environment around them.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

☐ Remembering ☐ Understanding ☐ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level): (Select the best level)

☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☐ Level 4: Integration
☒ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Students who are more visual and tactile learners will greatly benefit
from this project because they will be physically out in the community obtaining information.

Lesson idea implementation and Internet Safety Policies: Internet safety would be highly implemented into
this project because a large amount of the research portion of this activity would be done at school, and
because of the Children’s Internet Protection Act, the school building (administration) will be able to block
certain websites that are not appropriate for the school building.

Reflective Practice: Students will grasp a better understanding of the people and nature around their
communities. I could further extend this lesson by showing my students the different projects that other
schools did, going over the same subject. They will be able to review the same content just in a different
format which can further differentiate learning. Because of this I do not believe any other technology tool
would be needed for this project.

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