Basic Productivity Tools (BPT)

Lesson Idea Name: The Lorax

Content Area: English
Grade Level(s): Kindergarten
Content Standard Addressed: ELAGSEKRL3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and
major events in a story.

Technology Standard Addressed: 1 – Empowered Learner

Selected Technology Tool: PowerPoint

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Level(s):

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

Levels of Technology Integration:

☒ Infusion Level: Students may work at a higher Bloom’s Level, but they do not have any “Voice or Choice”
during the activity and most of the decisions are made by the teacher.

☐ Integration Level: We would like to see ALL lessons/activities reach this level. The project is student-
driven. Students have “Voice and Choice” in the activities, selecting the topic of study and determining the
technology tool to demonstrate mastery of the standard. The teacher becomes more of a facilitator.
☐ Expansion Level: The projects created are shared outside of the classroom, publishing student work and
promoting authorship. This could be reached by showcasing the project on the school’s morning
newscast, posting the project to the classroom blog, or publishing via an outside source.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

This activity supports all students by giving hearing impaired students words and pictures to see the content.
It also supports students who are visually impaired by letting them listen to the PowerPoint’s recordings. All
students can view this outside of class and their parents can view it too in case any students miss class.
Lesson idea implementation:
There are three different ways to present this to students. The first way is as follows: students will gather
around the board or projector screen and follow along with the teacher. Teacher will read the slides aloud.
After presenting this slide show, the teacher selects a book and walks the students through identifying
characters, setting, and plot for that book without the use of a slide show. However, the second way to
present this slide show, if the students were online, the teacher would have the students look through it on
their own and listen to the read-aloud audio that comes with the PowerPoint.
The third way to present this—whether the students are online or in-person—could include the teacher going
through the presentation with them or having them go through it on their own. Then, once plot, setting, and
characters have been thoroughly defined, the teacher picks a different book and has the students identify the
different elements as they build a new PowerPoint.

Reflective Practice:
I feel that the activities in the lesson idea provide a fun interactive way to learn about the different element of
a story. To extend the lesson, the teacher could do several examples with the students. Eventually, the
students could be comfortable enough with the productivity tool to build their own PowerPoints with books
of their choosing. The same idea—identifying plot, setting, and characters—could be done by building a chart
on a word document, but PowerPoint offers more visually appealing features that might hold students’
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attention better.

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