EDUC 2220- Educational Technology Lesson Plan Template

Literacy photo scavenger hunt

Briana Anthony
Kindergarten/ Creative Curriculum

Common Core Standards:

The Domain is Language and literacy with the topic being Letter and word recognition
The strand is Reading with 3 standard statements
1.With modeling and support recognize and "read" familiar words or environmental print.
2. With modeling and support, demonstrate understanding that alphabet letters are a special category of
symbols that can be named and identified
3. With modeling and support, recognize the sounds associated with letters

Lesson Summary:

In this lesson children will practice with letter recognition, letter sounds, and beginning letters of words.
Children will also learn how to use a tablet to take pictures of different things. Once children take pictures of
things around the classroom teacher will have the children use the printer to print their pictures from the tablet.
After pictures are printed children will practice writing the words that they found on their pictures.

Estimated Duration:

This lesson will take up a weeks worth of time. Working on different parts on the plan for about 1 hour each
day.
Commentary:
  I will get the children interested by allowing them to play around with the tablet before learning to take a
picture with them. We will also frequently talk about things around the room that start with different letters. I
think a challenge to this plan might be when we start to write the words. Some children might have trouble
with knowing how to spell the words but the teacher will help them.

Instructional Procedures: (This will be one of the most detailed sections of this assignment).

Describe the instructional steps that will be taken to implement the lesson. For each section of the lesson,
document how much time it will take and what students are expected to do. Make sure to cite your uses of
technology as often as possible.

Please take the time to provide a clear narrative as to how the lesson will unfold.

Day 1:
First 10 minutes: Introductory activity- Students will…..
20 minutes: I will…students will….
Describe what you and your students will be doing as the lesson unfolds.

Day 2:

etc.

Pre-Assessment:
Identify one strategy to pre-assess student knowledge of the standards your lesson addresses.
Tell me what you will do to determine what your students already know about the information being taught in
the lesson.
Getting “pre- assessment” data helps you figure out how quickly or slowly you should move through the
lesson.
Pre-assessments may be as informal as a reflection on students’ prior learning, a conversation about concepts
or warm-up problems at the beginning of class that are not scored. They may be more formally structured,
such as a quiz or an assigned writing topic.

Scoring Guidelines:
Define scoring guidelines for the pre-assessment, which may take the form of teacher judgment, a
checklist or another scoring format. Scoring guidelines should reveal whether or not student has met
the standard so that instruction can be modified and targeted to learners accordingly.

For example- if you’re planning on giving a quiz, tell me how you’re going to grade it. If you’re going
to conduct an observation on student activities, how will you assess it? Explain.

Teachers should conduct ongoing teacher assessment and student self assessment throughout instruction (this
is called formative assessment). These can be planned or conducted as opportunities for observation or
reflection arise. If planned, describe here.

Post-Assessment:
Your post-assessment should assess what students have learned AFTER the lesson is finished. This may take
the form of an exam, a student project (like a digital poster or infogram, or perhaps a youtube or xtranormal
video), or maybe a written work.

Scoring Guidelines:
Define scoring criteria for the post-assessment. Will you have a score and percentage for the exam, or
will it be pass/fail? How will you grade posters or other student projects? Be able to defend the process
behind how you score your post-assessment.

Differentiated Instructional Support

Describe how instruction can be differentiated (changed or altered) to meet the needs of gifted or accelerated
students: this might be an extra “challenge” assignment using technology, or an opportunity for these students
to peer-tutor students who are struggling- explain.

Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might be struggling with the
material:

Extension
Provide a link to a website where students could go to learn more about the standards you are addressing in
your lesson.
Briefly explain what the site is and how students could benefit from using it.

Homework Options and Home Connections

Describe work that will be assigned to students outside of the classroom. (In the next assignment, you may
provide “examples” (generated by you) of student work if possible). Brainstorm ways that you could make
these homework activities technology-based.
If your students are too young to do “homework”, use this space to explain how you’d encourage parent
involvement at home in learning the skills addressed in your lesson.

Interdisciplinary Connections
Tell how the lesson can be integrated with at least two other content areas to strengthen student learning. For
example, if you’re having your students do a comparison and contrast paper on Hamlet and Macbeth, what
other subjects could you draw into the lesson? Perhaps you’d want to talk about the social and political climate
of the time period of the two plays (History) as well as the big questions asked in each play- “to be, or not to
be?” (Philosophy and Ethics).

Materials and Resources:

For teachers List the materials you will need to teach the lesson.
REMEMBER: we want to use technology as much as we can in this lesson, and make
it as helpful as possible to our students. What will you need, and how will you do this?

For students List the materials your students will need to complete the lesson and learn the material.
We want students to use technology for this lesson. What will they need (iPads,
laptops, a smartboard, etc)?
Key Vocabulary
List key terms that need to be defined prior to or as part of instruction here.

Additional Notes

Any additional information about your lesson- or notes for me- go here!