Blog Phase 1: Micro Lesson #2

Habitat Lesson with integrated technology. The students focused on creating a venn diagram and answering questions about the comparisons of the animals and plants that live in different habitats. They then answered a google assessment. All of which was done after playing some different formative assessment games and interactive habitat games.

Lesson Plan: I. Rationale & II. Overview Reflections: Assessing Prior Knowledge and Planning Instructions:
 o What do the students need to know prior to the lesson?
Students need to know what an animal is and what a plant is. They also need to know about the habitat that we live in. (Arizona)
 o How will prior knowledge and experience be assessed?
We will start the lesson by playing a game that has general questions about habitats that should be able to be answered if students are familiar with habitats, the animals that live there and the plants that are found there.
o How will you use this information in the planning process?
This will guide how students use their worksheet, the depth of their answers and the time that is given per activity.
o When will the lesson be taught in the course of the school year? Why?
This is a lesson that would be taught later into the first semester, because they need to know and have a general knowledge about animals, plants and weather before they can learn about how they are in a relationship with each other.

Lesson Plan: III. Implementation Reflection: Designing Instructions:

• How do the instructional methods align with what you know about best practices (think about your methods classes)?
• Students are having guided instruction, as well as a goal to work toward, the objective is stated multiple times and they work in goals and independently.
• How are you engaging students in creative and higher order thinking?
• Yes, students are working in groups to solve questions about habitats that we do not live in.

 Lesson Plan: IV. Assessment Reflection: Planning Assessment:
o How does the assessment demonstrate that the students have been successful in learning the content?
Students will successfully complete their worksheet and have examples to use from the website to share and to use for their formative assessment.
o How does the assessment demonstrate that the individual student needs were met?
Students that moved on quickly were offered the option to add details and pictures to their diagrams and to play the habitat games more than once to complete the worksheet for different habitats.

Lesson Plan: V. Materials & Resources Reflection: 

o How does your lesson meet Standard 1: Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity?

Students were able to chose their habitat as well as provide details that they choose to put in their diagram.

 o How does your lesson meet Standard 2: Provide Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessment? 

All the work was done on the computer and students navigated through websites, google docs and a google assessment to complete the lesson.

o How does your lesson meet Standard 3: Model Digital Age Work & Learning? 

We had the worksheets, games and examples for students to reference on the overhead projector. Students were then allowed to work as a class, in groups and individually.

o How does your lesson meet all four elements of Standard 4: Promote and Model Digital Age Citizenship and Responsibility

Students were aware that they were to follow along the websites that were linked to the googledoc and they were responsibly using the games to enhance their learning.