Sample+Lessons

=Sample Lessons = 

**Tier 1 Samples **
Primary >  Intermediate >  Secondary > > 
 * Teacher finds and prints engaging worksheet pages for students to complete for a reading center.
 * Teacher collects parent email addresses at the start of the year and emails a list of student names home for creating Valentine's Day cards.
 * Teacher uses a site like [|Thinkfinity] (formerly Marco Polo) to find technology integrated lessons that meet state standards. Links to lessons are bookmarked and stored in folders for later retrieval.
 * Student pictures are taken by parent volunteers. Pictures are stored in a database along with information like contact numbers, email addresses, and health or diet restrictions.
 * Student participation, homework, and quiz scores are tracked in a grade book software program or using a spreadsheet. Reports can be run for particular students as needed.
 * Teacher uses a word processing program to create a scope and sequence for a particular class. Lessons and units are hyperlinked to the Washington GLEs. This document is posted on the class web page for parents, students, and administration to reference.

**Tier 2 Samples **
 Primary  Intermediate <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Secondary <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Use a site like [|www.starfall.com] to show interactive lessons pertaining to phonics, alphabet, or reading skills.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Create a sorting or math activity using a word document and drawing tools. Use a wireless keyboard and mouse to have students manipulate the shapes or numbers.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Have students help type articles for a classroom newsletter. Use reviewing tools to have a peer revise and edit the article.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Create a book review or vocabulary database using a spreadsheet program and filtering options.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Start a wiki from a free site like [|wikispaces] or [|pbwiki]. Set up a wiki for collaborative response to a class reading assignment to be completed as homework.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Use a digital interactive frog dissection like [|Frog 2 at EdSchool] or [|Froguts] to guide or replace a live animal dissection.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">**Tier 3 Samples **
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">Primary <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> > <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Intermediate <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Secondary
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> In the morning, have a student visit a weather site like [|www.wrh.noaa.gov] to see the forecast for the day. Also compare local weather to another part of the world (of the students' choosing) and have them brainstorm why there would be differences in the two locations. Student should also predict what the future weather trend will be in each place. Using desktop links have students continue to track the weather seeing if their predictions are accurate.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Have student browse a list of appropriately leveled bookmarked websites to gather information on a rainforest animal. They will use the information they gather to create a digital poster (using a drawing program like MS Paint or KidPix) about their animal and present the poster to the class.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Create a project like a //Road Trip through Washington// that uses a variety of technology resources including the Rand McNally website, a spreadsheet for making itineraries and calculating trip costs, and presentation software to try and convince someone that the trip is worth the money, or you can use an online tool like [|Voice Threads] for the presentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Have students create a concept map about a science topic using the draw tools in a word processor, a mind mapping tool like Inspiration or Smart Ideas or online graphic organizer tools like [|www.gliffy.com] . They use peer evaluation to check the accuracy of their mind maps. After revisions are allowed, teachers will collect the mind maps and use them as a unit assessment.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Visit the [|UN Infonation] website to gather comparison data about countries under study. Generate and print a graph of the data to use in a presentation about cultural differences of the two countries.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> Have students find and listen to a famous speech on [|www.history.com] as a primary source for a report, debate, or discussion.