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Lesson Idea Name: Create A Picture Book

Grade Level/Content Area: 2nd/Reading & Writing
Content Standard Addressed:
ELAGSE2W3: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of
events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event
order, and provide a sense of closure.
ELAGSE2W6: With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of tools to produce and publish
writing, including digital tools and collaboration with peers.
ISTE Technology Standard Addressed:  What would you like students to know and
1.6 Creative Communicator- 1.6.d. Students be able to do by the end of this lesson:
publish or present content that customizes I would like for my students to be proficient
the message and medium for their intended in building their narrative using PowerPoint.
audiences.
What is the student learning goal for this lesson idea?
I want my students to become experts in PowerPoint and know the tools include in this
software. My students will also be able to think about the pictures they want to include in
their PowerPoint narrative that fit well with the theme of their story.
Selected Instructional Software Tool: PowerPoint
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Level(s):

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

How will this lesson be implemented? Check all that apply.

☐ Teacher-directed: There is no student voice and choice in the activities. Students are guided by the
teacher's direction and expectations.

☐ Student-Led: Students are given voice and choice in the activities. They may select the topic for
presentation and/or determine the tool they will use to meet the learning goal. Products of
learning will be uniquely designed. Teacher simply facilitates the learning in a lesson like this.

☐ Project-based and/or Publishable: Students are completing projects to demonstrate their learning
and the projects can be shared outside of the classroom. This objective could be reached by
displaying the project on the school’s morning newscast, posting the project to the classroom
blog, presenting it to another class, or publishing it via an outside source.

Lesson idea implementation:

The activity that I plan for the students to do with PowerPoint is creating their own
short narrative about a road trip. This lesson will be introduced with me showing them
a short story I created about a road trip. I will go over how I wrote my story out on
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paper first then once it was checked over, I would then break up my story into parts
for fit better in the PowerPoint. I would also talk about how I carefully picked the
pictures for the background of my story, so it fits well. I will make sure my students are
aware of their goals by doing check ins to keep up with how they are doing and
reminding them what the goals are. They will use the technology to create an online
version of their short narrative that they can view and read to the class. The teacher
will try to step in a little as possible so that the students can explore the program
themselves and see what works for them. The feedback with be provided by a rubric
that gives explanations on what did and didn’t work and ways they could better their
e-book. I will then conclude the lesson by talking about how we can take the narrative
we wrote and make it digitalized.

Managing engagement: Describe a way to use this technology in a way that gets students
actively involved in authentic tasks and contexts?

The way I will use PowerPoint to actively get my students involved in authentic tasks and
contexts would be using exploration activities and time-on-task with continued focus on the
learning goal. With using explorations activities, it gives the students time to look through the
given program and have time to explore the software to get used to it. Time-on-task is
another great way that I feel could get the students used to the program. With this it gives
the students a break about their current task and are given a moment to check in on where
they are and if they are following the current goals

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

Choosing PowerPoint, it helps to introduce the class to the concept that they will be learning.
It gives them an opportunity to engage in this. Using technology like PowerPoint can engage
both auditory and visual learners. The PowerPoint would also allow the use of graphics,
linking to videos, and bullet pointing information. Defining engagement in UDL means that
the students always know the goal of the lesson and the standards that they will reach by the
end of the lesson.

Reflecting on enhanced learning:

After designing my lesson idea, I feel like it will impact my students learning positively. With
this lesson it would help my students get to know PowerPoint and learn about some of the
aspects that are part of it. The part of the lesson I feel most excited for is seeing the work my
students have created.
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