Technology Matrix

1. Technology Matrix By: Katie Stipa

3. I will use the ReadWriteThink.org Printing Press program as a final lesson in a writing unit to allow students to create their own newsletters. With a Smart Board, I will use whole and small group (as needed) instruction to teach students how to navigate through the program. Then, students will work with their writing partner to create their newsletters, but pre-selected “helpers” will help re-teach and guide their classmates through the program as I visit with students to assess, redirect, and help as needed. • This lesson will cover the Diocese of Bridgeport Language Arts: Writing 3.2.f ~ publish and/or present final products in a myriad of ways, including the use of the arts and technology. • A final assessment will be the creation of the finished newsletter. Once students have finished their newsletter creation using Printing Press, they may begin printing. Students waiting to print may share their newsletters by reading from their screens, while those who have finished printing may share by exchanging or reading aloud to each other.

4. I will use the ReadWriteThink.org Book Cover Creator to allow students to create book covers for their book reports. With a Smart Board, I will use whole and small group (as needed) instruction to teach students how to navigate through the program. Then, students will work individually, but pre-selected “helpers” will help re-teach and guide their classmates through the program as I visit with students to assess, redirect, and help as needed. • This lesson will cover the Diocese of Bridgeport Language Arts: Writing 3.2.f ~ publish and/or present final products in a myriad of ways, including the use of the arts and technology. • A final assessment will be the creation of the finished book cover. Once students have finished their book cover creation using Book Cover Creator, they may begin printing. Students waiting to print may share their book covers by viewing from their screens, while those who have finished printing may share by exchanging cover with each other.

5. I will use Smart Notebook in a presentation to teach students how to create an interactive quiz using gallery items. Then, I will assign students to pre-selected small groups and they will work cooperatively using a laptop with Smart Notebook installed, and a rubric, to create an interactive quiz about the properties of common elements. Students will save their quizzes on the shared drive so that they may be accessed from the classroom computer and displayed on the class Smart Board. • This addresses the Diocese of Bridgeport Science Standard 6.1.1 ~ Describe the properties of common elements, such as oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, iron and aluminum. • Summative assessment will be based on whether students met the rubric requirements, as well as a “class grade” of 1-10 from students.

6. I will use Smart Notebook in interactive presentation to review the six types of simple machines to the whole class. Then, I will assign students to pre-selected small groups and they will work cooperatively to identify the input force, output force, and work done using the six types of simple machines (including the three classes of levers). Students will elect two representatives per group to come to the board (one set of reps at a time) to manipulate objects on the board and label the input force, output force, work, and in the case of levers, the fulcrum or pivot. • This addresses the Diocese of Bridgeport Science Standard 7.1.2 ~ Explain how simple machines, such as inclined planes, pulleys and levers, are used to create mechanical advantage, • Assessment will be formative based on relevant student discussion during small group time and during the portion where students manipulate objects on the board.