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 Electronic
Chalkboard is running with
information for Day 4 Morning
Activities |
 Attention
signal for today is
a Duck Call... when you hear the
duck call you should stop and
respond
"Quack, Quack." |
Morning Routines and Procedures:
 Daily
Journal writing and sharing
E-mail
assignments
Question
of the Day
Weather
Watch
Super
Speller Activity
Completion
of Graphs and gathering data
from graphs after lunch.
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Day
Four Journal:
 Day
Four Journal Writing Prompt:
Pull from your pocket folder the
article “The REAL Y2K Crisis" by
Ian Jukes, read and respond to
these journal questions …“What
do you believe about teaching,
learning and technology? Why
must classroom teaching change
in the Information Age? How can
you help others on your faculty?
Journal
Writing in MICROSOFT WORD.
“Thoughts from Louisiana”. Click
Journal Template
button
(Word) at
the top left. |
E-Mail Assignment:
 Check
your
Tangischools email account
on the Internet and Reply to the E-mail
Assignment Day 4. Learn about
the Forward feature of E-mail. |
Question of the Day:
 What
is the official Louisiana
Musical Instrument? If you
aren't sure...
click here to find the answer on
the Internet. |
Graphs for Day Four:
 1.
What is your favorite Louisiana
food?
2.
Who is your favorite Louisiana
star?
3.
Who is your favorite Louisiana
artist?
4.
Have you ever been crabbing? |
Weather Watch:
 You
should check high and low
temperatures and conditions for
this day in Hammond, Chicago,
Los Angeles, and Washington
D.C.? Use
www.cnn.com/WEATHER.
Weather Watch Lesson Plan
(Word)
outlines the procedures for this
activity. |
Super Speller Activity:
Teachers will rotate in and out
of the station with laptop
computer with a touchpad to
record a sound file.
Click here for directions
(word) and record your voice
spelling your word for today.
Use Computer Grid Management
Procedure for rotating through
the computer station with Each
One Teach One cooperative
learning strategy. |
Louisiana ABCs Technology
Connected Lesson Plan
(pdf)
L IS FOR LOUISIANA by Cecelia Dartez will be read to the
group. Other books that will
compliment this lesson are CAJUN
ALPHABET by James Rice, ANIMALIA
by Graeme Base, Going to New
Orleans to Visit Weezie Anna by
Mary Beth Pisano, LOUISIANA
ALPHABET by Nancy Parker should
be pointed out to offer
extensions to this lesson.
Participants
will use
Louisiana ABCs Parts of
Speech Chart (pdf) to brainstorm lists
of words beginning with their
letter and categorize them into
parts of speech. Participants
will be assigned a letter to
create an alliteration short
story that will be illustrated
and published in STORYBOOK
WEAVER and compiled into a class
book.
Check
your alliteration story using
the
Louisiana ABCs assessment (pdf)
Use
Louisiana Lingo (pdf) for
vocabulary ideas. |
Wetlands
Visit Activity
 Teachers
will use the group participation
story on page with accompanying
picture cards to tell story.
Click here for
Wetlands Visit lesson plan,
story and pictures. |
Graph Club - Louisiana Lagniappe
 Participants
will take one of the assigned
Louisiana graphs and
compile the data to make graphs
using that data. They will also
use data from Weather Watch
Chart to illustrate in graphs.
Techie Time with “Tom Snyder’s
Graph Club 2.0”. Demonstrate the
different features of Graph Club
including importing graphics to
make graphs more specific.
Use
Graph Club TechTips (HTML)
if you need more help.
Groovy
Graphs Technology Connected
Lesson Plan (word) |
Funny Photographs
 Use
KID PIX to do a “Funny
Photograph.” Insert your digital
picture onto a KID PIX Slide and
use cutouts to add funny
features. Do one more slide with
a descriptive paragraph or poem
about the “Funny Photograph” for
a two-page booklet or a class
slide show using KID PIX. |
Louisiana Greats Trading Cards
TC Lesson Plan
 Gumbo
Island Video Tape – Introduction
to lesson...
click here for contents of Gumbo
Island video tapes. (pdf)
Cooperative
Grouping technique using playing
cards or matching candy to pair
participants will be
demonstrated.
Technology
Connected Lesson Plan for
“Louisiana Greats Trading Cards”
(word)
View samples. Chose a
Louisiana Great from the
list. Participants will work
in pairs to research a Louisiana
Great using World Book Online or
other Internet resources.
Pictures from the TangiTech CD
or the Internet will be used.
You can use the
Famous People of Louisiana (pdf)
handout to get info on some of
our state's greatest people.
Participants
will use the
Trading Card Notetaking Guide
as they do their research.
Louisiana
Great Trading Card Template in
PowerPoint will be used.
Techie Time –
How to save pictures from the
Internet. (word) |
Lagniappe Activities and
Information:
Technology and Learning Magazine
click here for a
free subscription
"The
Swamp Bucket" by Susan Munguia
(pdf)
The Important
Book by Margaret Wise Brown TC
Lesson Plan (pdf)
Pattern writing for kids.
(word)
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown -
online project
The Best of the Web (pdf)
Smithie Cooper from Hammond
Junior High, compiled a "Best of
the Web" list from handouts and
sessions she received at the
Classroom Connect Conference in
New Orleans on January 14, 15,
2004. This is a great reference
list of websites to use in your
classroom. Thanks to Smithie for
creating this document for us :) |
TrackStar preparation
Participants
will complete
Louisiana
Lagniappe Track Star that was
created for TangiTech.
Explain
the procedure for creation of
Track Star. Have participants
search and bookmark the sites
they will use in Track.
Begin
typing the questions in
Microsoft Word on the
“First Draft for TrackStar”
file on the TangiTech CD. Use
“Copy” and “Paste” with URLs so
that you don't take a chance of
making typos. |
Technology Connected Lesson Plan
(Word)
 Use
the
Lesson Plan template
(Word)
on the TangiTech CD to create
your three Technology Connected
Lesson Plans for TangiTech.
Use
copy and paste skills to insert
Content Standards and
Technology Standards (word)
into TC Lesson Plan.
Discuss
the steps to planning of the TC
Lesson:
1. What is my lesson?
2. What are my objectives?
3. What is the student activity?
4. What materials are needed?
5. What is the technology
connection?
6. What assessment strategies
will be used?
7. What are the procedures?
Louisiana
Content Standards (web) and
GLEs
K12
Educational Technology Standards
(Word) |
Brain Check and Homework:
 Complete
Brain Check #4
1. Read "Training
Teachers Who are Terrorized by
Technology" by Gary Hopkins at
Education World. You can get
the pages from your pocket
folder or read the article
online. Be ready to discuss on
Day 5.
2. Read The
"7 Habits of Highly Effective
Internet-Using Educators" by
Carla Schutte.
You an get the pages from
your pocket folder or read the
article online. Be ready to
discuss on Day 5.
3.
Prepare for TrackStar on Day
5.
4.
Work on
Technology-Connected Lesson
Plans to turn in by due
date.
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Housekeeping
 Make
sure one copy of all printed
work is filed in folder box and
you have checked off completed
activities on the clipboard by
the file box. Collect supplies,
and bring computers back to
desktops.
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