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BP Tools Lesson Idea Nikkoc
Lesson Idea
☐ 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.
of what is next to come. At the conclusion of the story, I will show the students a card where
it will give the instructions for students to uniquely create their own story using Microsoft
Sway with addition of a narrative representation of the cards of their choice. After the
completion of their group student-led presentations, the students will represent their
enjoyment of the project with snaps of the fingers.
Managing engagement: Describe a way to use this technology in a way that gets students
actively involved in authentic tasks and contexts?
During the activity, the students will come together in groups of 2-3 and co-use their
computers to choose their historical figure from the Civil War. Next, Students will be given
time to collaborate with their group members to create ideas that they want to implement in
their presentations. Students will also have the ability to find their own findings to increase
their own understanding of these figures and to help them become more knowledgeable
with finding different outlooks about the figure.