20 Minute Lesson Plans

1. 20 Minute Lesson Plans Cynthia Haas June 20th, 2011 Technology Conference CCS

2. Questions • How much time do you currently have to plan each lesson? What are other distracters during that time? • What are the expectations from your administration as far as differentiation in the classroom? • What are the expectations from administration as far as the use of technology?

3. What if… • What if 10-20 minutes of research could engage your classroom for at least one class or in high/middle school ½ of a class? • What if you could design a quick lesson that would not only engage students needing adaptations but also those needing extensions? • What if you were the “guide on the side” instead of the “sage on the stage?” • What if you could use these lessons year after year so that each year there would be less research/ generation of lessons to do?

4. Agenda • Non-technology examples • PowerPoint “holey notes” • Basic skills • Technology examples • Exploration and building the file • Sharing

5. Non-technology examples that ensure equity and minimal planning • “Around the World” • “Whip It” • “Guess Who?” • Giving Time • A-Z review

6. PowerPoint “Holey Notes” • Put basic information on slides in a PowerPoint format • For extension students, they might choose which notes to take from the presentation • For middle students, change the color of the font for key words/important phrases, they copy those words only • For challenged students, print “slides” and use either “super sticky” paper or white out to take out key words and phrases, make copies, they fill them in from Powerpoint • If lots of graphics or pictures, just make your own

7. Sound familiar? Example from last year: Gave a literature test in 6th grade. Three of our students read at the 10th-12th grade level, most of them are between 5th-6th grade, and four of the students read 2nd-3rd grade (on a good day.) Test results: 5 students 90-100% on test 14 students 70-85% 4 students made 20-40%

8. Basic Skills • Using Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. Here is a PowerPoint online to help you: http://library.hiu.edu/guides/Google_Advanced_Features1.ppt#256,1,Google Search Tips: Advanced Features • Use “Filetype:____” to find specific types of files • Pdf (Adobe readable files) • Doc (Microsoft Word documents) • Jpg, gif, tif (pictures, graphics, photos) • Ppt (PowerPoint presentations)

9. Saving websites • Saving a website to a folder, flash drive, lab file, student file or home directory • Have “place to save” (see above) open and minimized on screen (looks like an underline on upper right of screen) (to create folder: right click/new/folder/then name it) • Open website and then “restore down” (upper right of screen, looks like two boxes) • Drag icon next to name in address box down to “place to save” and voila! Shortcut is there • Can put links in lab files or individual student accounts (lab files/users/students/student name then follow 1-3 above) • Today, put them on a flash drive or write them down

10. Great Resources/Websites • CCS Teacher Resource Page • Spellingcity.com • Teachers Pay Teachers http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ • Thirteen.org http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/lessons/index.html

11. EOG samples from NCDPI http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/testing/releasedforms Discovery Education Video http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/ Math Interactives http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activities.aspx?grade=all Online stopwatch/timer http://www.online-stopwatch.com/ Language Arts: Interactive Analogies http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Readquarium/Vocabulary/Analogies/ Language Arts: Interactive Critical Thinking Skills http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/skillsi-p.html Learn Alberta : Math Interactives/Interactive tutorials Interactives: http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mejhm/index.html?launch=true Grades 4-6 (appropriate) Tutorials: http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/Math5.html Grades 5-7 (appropriate) Tutorials: http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mesg/html/math6web/index.html Game Templates (Jeopardy, Battleship, Who Wants to Be…) http://www.internet4classrooms.com/technology_tutorials/powerpoint_game_templates_technology_tutorials.htm Foldables!! My Personal Favorites

12. Key Words • “Filetype:______” • “Lesson Plans __________________” • “Free” • “Online” • “Interactive” • Grade _____

13. It’s Play Time! • Use your newly found skills to search the internet for lesson plans, games, etc. that you might use in the future • Report back to the group your “favorite finds!”

14. Dr. Harry Wong • “The one who is doing all the work is the one who is learning.”