TPACK Creating Assignment Template

Subject Science

Grade Level 2nd grade

Learning Objective The student will investigate and understand that plants and animals undergo a series of orderly
Content Knowledge

The objective of the lesson is what changes as they mature and grow. Key concepts include
students will be able to do as they
finish the activity. For this objective,
a) animal life cycles; and
use the Standards of Learning (SOL) b) plant life cycles.
to say what you want to focus on.
You can find the SOLs at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing
/ look on the right of the screen for
the subjects and go from there.

Complete this sentence by naming the technology tool and the creation activity:

In this activity, my students are going to use google slides to create a life cycle presentation.
Pedagogy Planning
 Activity Describe what the
learning activity will be. What will
the students and the teacher be
1. The teacher will have a lesson about the differences between plant and anima
doing? (This includes what they are cycles. The teacher can start by reading a kid friendly book about plant and
doing with the technology). Many
people tend to find this part easier if animal cycles, then the teacher can make a lesson via PowerPoint, or google
they number the action in order and slides. Lastly to have the students more engaged the teacher can create a plan
think of this from the view of a
substitute teacher. This lesson was and animal cycle craft for the students to take home.
left on the desk, can you follow it and 2. Second the students will be shown an example of a life cycle presentation, the
teach the class today? Add numbers
as you need to describe your they will split up in groups and begin working on their presentation to teach th
class/activity for the day.
class what makes up a plant and animal cycle, and the difference between the
two.

3. Lastly the students will share their presentation to the class, the classmates w
be able to give feedback and ask any questions about the presentation. The
students will also have an opportunity to score a rubric for each group that
presented. This allows the presenters to get more feedback from a teacher’s
perspective and a students.
Pedagogy

Web 2.0 Technology https://www.google.com/slides/about/

Name of the device and/or programs
being used. (The description of what
the students will be doing with the
technology will be included in the
pedagogy/activity section).
Technology

Link to the example https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/

product you made 1F2KXCD9YW31nRFz22WMoYPHQCVjXLBhpxsK4o-o9gZo/edit#slide=id.gc6f90357f_0_0
pretending to be a
student
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-slides/id879478102
Mobile App Option
Via: App store
Price: Free
Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).