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Unit: Math: Adding an Subtracting numbers 1-12,Number Sequence, Greater or Smaller

Lesson Objectives:  Time Required to complete this lesson: 15 to 20 minuets
 * Student will understand how to add an subtract simple numbers in there head without using a calculator.
 * Students will understand that learning can fun.
 * Student will be able to add and subtract the numbers 1 though 12 given in any order quickly and correctly.

Title of lesson: Math Jeopardy

Description of lesson: The students will be divided into small groups of about 5 or 6. They will then sit with their group members and listen to the rules of the game. The students will be asked if they aware of Jeopardy and if they are asked how you answer in jeopardy .Using the Math jeopardy game that I created using Jeopardy labs we will play a game of Jeopardy. Each of the teams will get a small dry erase board to right their answers on, and have to select one person to be the one to be to buzzer. This person will be like the buzzer to show that they team wants to answer. [|Math Jeopardy]

Assignment: The students will have various homework assignment sheets with math problems to practice at home. This activity will also help them get some in class learning in a fun way.

Resources/materials needed: 5 or 6 small dry erase board, 6 black dry erase markers, computer, projector, screen to project image on

Technology used: Computer, power point, and projection system.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: It show that you can learn how to math problems not just by doing endless amounts of worksheets. It also would help the students to come up with the right answer quickly and have fun will playing a game.



Grade Level: 1st Grade

Unit: Planets and Solar System

Lesson Objectives:  Time Required to complete this lesson: 45 minuets to 1 hour
 * Student will understand were the planets are positioned in the solar system
 * Students will understand the difference between the planets as far as size an placement
 * Student will be able to tell basic facts of planets in the solar system
 * Students will be able to understand basic of finding answer to question using the internet.

Title of lesson: Solar System Scavenger Hunt

Description of lesson: The students will each open the scavenger hunt from the wiki website and will have a printed copy to write their answers on. They will then go through each of the questions and the websites of each to find the answers to each of the questions. By clicking on the pictures in the scavenger hunt they will be taken to a website were they will find the answer. There is a variety of website for them to visit so they see there are multiple ways to find information.

Assignment: The students will have various homework assignment sheets to help them through out the Solar system unit. There is also other sites on this wiki site for them to explore and find out more about the solar system.

Resources/materials needed: Computers lab, 24 copies of worksheets

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: It will show that you can learn about the solar system and planets from the internet in a fun an interactive way.

Lesson Plan #3
Unit: Solar System

 Lesson Objectives:  Time Required to complete this lesson: 45 minuets to 1 hour
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will understand were the planets are positioned in the solar system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand the difference between the planets as far as size an placement
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will be able to tell basic facts of planets in the solar system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to understand basic of finding answer to question using the internet.

Title of lesson: Taking a Trip to a Planet

Description of lesson: The students will each open select a planet that they are interested in and pretend they are going on a trip to that planet. The idea will be like they could actually visit that planet and have a vacation. They would need to figure out what to bring with them as far as cloths and other items. After they have gathered their information they will create video to present that information to the class. [|A trip to Saturn]

Assignment: The students will have various homework assignment sheets to help them through out the Solar system unit. There is also other sites on this wiki site for them to explore and find out more about the solar system.

Resources/materials needed: Computers lab.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: It will show that you can learn about the solar system and planets from the internet in a fun an interactive way

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson Plan #4
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st

Unit: Solar System

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time required: 30 minuets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand order of the planets in the solar systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to associate the pictures of the planets with names.

Title of Lesson: Name the Planet <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">s

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Description of lesson: The students will watch a slide show that I crated with the pictures of each of the planets. They will then have to write down the order that the planets appear in the slide show and then figure out the pattern that they were shown. [|Our Solar System]

Assignment: The students will have various homework through out the solar system unit that will help them learn the name of the planets.

Resources/materials needed: Computer in classroom with access to internet.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lesson Plan #5
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st

Unit: Solar System

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time required: 30-45 minuets a day for about one week.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand the climate of each of the planets in the solar systems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand what it takes to a have a fictional colony on another planet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand how to use natural resources available to them.

Title of Lesson: Colony Research Project

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Description of lesson: The students will use a blog post to get the assignment. There is also list of books from this wiki page as references to start gathering information. They will then create a power point presentation of the information they have gathered to show the class why they should choose that planet for a new colony. They will choose the planets random out of a hat. [|Colony Research Project]

Assignment: The students will have various homework through out the solar system unit that will help them learn the name of the planets.

Resources/materials needed: 5-6 computers for groups to work on with power point and access to the internet.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st Grade

Unit: Grammar

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time Required to complete this lesson: 10-15
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will understand the difference between nouns, verbs, adjectives, and use of puncuation marks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand how to put words into different categories.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will be able to use the words to form sentences.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to understand basic of punctuation and writing a complete sentence.

Title of lesson: What That Word

Description of lesson: The students will Play the game as part of their language art center. They will play the game on this Wiki page. If they have any trouble with directions they can ask me for help or another student.

Assignment: The students will have various homework assignment sheets to help them through out the Grammar. There is also other sites on this wiki site for them to practice their vocab and grammar skills.

Resources/materials needed: Computer in classroom with access to internet.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Lesson #7 = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st Grade

Unit: Science

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time Required to complete this lesson: 30-45 minuets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will understand how to collect data using a poll.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand how to put the data they collected onto a graph
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will be able create a bar graph based on their data and read it
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be able to understand different ways to collected data and show the results of it.

Title of lesson: Where Do My Class Mates Live

Description of lesson: The students will come up with a question in order to figure out were there fellow classmates live in association to were they live. They will then go around and ask each of their class mates what city they live. They will write down on a worksheet given to them how many of their classmates live in the same area. I will then take small groups of students to the computer and create a graph of that groups data. If all goes well there data should be the same. Below is an example of a completed graph.



Assignment: The students will have various assignment in class to create other graphs collected data on other things.

Resources/materials needed: Computer in classroom with access to internet.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

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Unit: Writing

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time Required to complete this lesson: 30-45 minuets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will understand how write poetry
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand how to read poetry correctly.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will be able record their selected poem for everyone to listen to.

Title of lesson: Our Favorite Poems media type="file" key="Podcst Here is an example of the finished product.

Description of lesson: The students will pick a favorite poem of theirs either that they found in a poetry book or that they have written for class. They will then make a recording of that poem and make a podcast out of it. The podcast will be posted on the Wiki page for the parents to see.

Assignment: The students will have various assignment in class to write poetry, and also a trip to library to find some poetry books.

Resources/materials needed: Computer in classroom with audacity.

Technology used: Computers, various education websites.

= = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st Grade

Unit: Social Studies.

Lesson Objectives: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> Time Required to complete this lesson: 15 to 20 minuets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will understand of their neighborhood and were they come from.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand the history of different places they through out Colorado
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will be able to explore our state with a better understand of it History.

Title of lesson: Tour of Colorado

Description of lesson: The students will go on a virtual tour that I have created. It will take them to different places in Colorado and help them discover those places histories. They will also learn so interesting facts about some very famous land marks in Colorado.

Assignment: The students will have various assignment in calss talking about the history of our state and connected that to their lives here in Colorado.

Resources/materials needed: 2 or 3 in class room computers with internet connection or a computer lab.

Technology used: Computers and Map Wing.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: This is a fun and interesting way for students to learn history of Colorado and some places in it without just reading a book. = = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> media type="custom" key="5846557"

= = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Grade Level: 1st Grade

Unit: Social Studies Earth Day

Lesson Objectives:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will understand how to work with others to complete a project.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Students will understand the pros and cons to recycling.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Student will be able to understand basic of research.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">Time Required to complete this lesson: 15 to 20 minuets for about a week.

Title of lesson: School Recycling Program.

Description of lesson: The students will work in groups in order to come up with a reason why their school should start a recycling program. They will do in preparation for Earth Day and in order to have a good understanding of how to take care of the earth.

Assignment: The students will have time in class to work on this project. The instructions can be found at this link. [|Recycleing Project]

Resources/materials needed: a computer lab.

Technology used: Computers, Power Point, Google Spread Sheet, Google Presentation, Knol for instructions.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: because it a unique opertunity to celebrate Earth day and show to the benefits of helping our planet without any paper used.

[|Earth Day Jepordy] This is a fun Jeopardy game that we will be playing in class to help introduce earth day to the students. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">