When I Become a Teacher

iPad assignment.

Scramble Challenge:

This application could be used to support vocabulary. Students can play the game and find as many words as they can. Once the game is over, students can look at the list of words they found and write down any words they aren't sure of and look up the meanings of those words.

WebQuest

Lesson Plan

CSO's
RLA.O.4.1.1
identify and practice appropriate vocabulary:

• multiple meaning words
• synonyms
• antonyms
• homonyms
• content area vocabulary
• context clues

RLA.O.4.1.8
interpret and extend the ideas in literary and informational texts to summarize, determine story elements, skim and scan, determine cause and effect, compare and contrast, visualize, paraphrase, infer, sequence, determine fact and opinion, draw conclusions, analyze characterize and provide main idea and support details.

RLA.O.4.1.12
recognize and explain the defining characteristics of genre in literary and informational texts:

• fairy tales
• folk tales
• myths
• poems
• fables
• fantasies
• biographies
• short stories
• novels
• plays
• legends
• autobiographies
• magazines
• newspapers
• textbooks
• essays
• speeches
• electronic databases
• reference materials

Role: The Altitudinist- WebQuest

Elementary WebQuests

Your Role

___Efficiency Expert

___Affiliator

_X__Altitudinist

___Technophile

Your Impressions

WebQuest	Strengths	Weaknesses
Grow School Greens	Allows students the opportunity to develop professional skills by seeking permission and finding funding for their projects. Gives students the opportunity to work together and develop a plan. Each student is given a particular role and must accomplish tasks that fall within that role.	Large number of steps and information given all at once.
Where is My Hero?	Shows students that everyday people can be heros	Allows for little creativity. Listing, interviewing, and looking at various websites are the only tasks. Does not develop critical thinking
Underground Railroad	Offers fantastic creativity. Students must write journals from the perspective of their character. Includes website research to support their learning and help them develop their character Encourages collaboration	Possibly not enough structure to the directions.
Ice Cream	Collaboration! Students are required to listen to all ideas and collectively agree to one idea Students research a skill and then practice that skill- supporting their learning	I don’t see the connection to language arts
Ancient Egypt	Proper research websites are provided so students know they are gathering valid information Students are given 4 topic options to allow for variety	Students are not required to locate information on their own, all information they need is provided for them. This does not allow for self-sufficiency or learning through research.

Social Media ban, right?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10309421-238.html

This article discusses the cons and invalidity to banning sexual predators from social media sites. It explains that it would offer a false sense of security- because maybe the worst predators are the ones that haven't been caught. The author also says that some people listed as sexual predators are people who have urinated in public or are streakers, or teens who have had consensual sex. The article lists statistics to support their argument. The article only gives one side of the argument, it does not cite any other ideas or arguments to defend their position. The article references other articles but it does not link us to that article.

I can understand both positions. Parents want to know that their children are safe on the internet and they might be all for banning registered sex offenders from social media sites. However, there would be a huge sense of false security because children and parents would feel like they were protected from ALL predators- but they are really only protected from the people registered as offenders.

Storybird

Classroom chaos by lsands2201 on Storybird

Wikipedia Article

Article is a stub and not completed. This article states only a few references. The references are various education sites regarding their deaf education programs. The information there is clear; however, there is not a lot of information there. The information is neutral and factual. There are gaps however, and not a lot of information. The few references listed seem to be reliable. There are no discussions listed under the discussion tab. I would rate this as partially reliable. 1. Although the information is accurate, there is not enough information to support the information. 2. The article doesn't completely define what deaf education is. 3. There are no contributors that are talking back and forth on ways to improve the site.