Raft Task Card

ROLE (student)
A historian

AUDIENCE
Students of a
history class

FORMAT
A PowerPoint
show

Be a meteorologist

Science class

Be a writer

English class

Make a video of
how a tornado is
made
Make a poem

Row 1

Row 2
Row 3

TOPIC
Opinion and why.
Who was the most
significant
president in
history?
Provide how a
tornado is formed
Make a poem
about education

RAFT Row 1
Objective: Research presidents and their significance to decide who made a better president.
Student Role: Be a historian
Audience: Students of a history class
Format: A PowerPoint show
Topic: Opinion and why. Who was the most significant president in history?

Directions:
1. Visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents to learn more about each president.
2. Chose one president and be prepared to back up your opinions.
3. Create a PowerPoint about the president you chose.
4. Review your PowerPoint before presenting it to the class.

5. Present PowerPoint

Resources:
Websites to Visit
The Presidents | The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents

Assessment:
Prepare a 15-20 slide PowerPoint over one president of your choice. You will receive 30 points
for completing the following: doing accurate research, providing resources, backing up your
opinion, and presenting your presentation.

RAFT Row 2
Objective: Do research on tornados and provide information on how they are formed.
Student Role: Be a meteorologist
Audience: Science class
Format: Make a video of how a tornado is made
Topic: Provide how a tornado is formed

Directions:
1. Research on how tornadoes form
2. Gather all of your information and start putting it into sections
3. Put each section in order to start forming your video
4. Finish video and watch to make sure it is in order
5. Turn in video
Resources:
Websites to visit
Tornadoes - Weather Wiz Kids weather information for kids
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-tornado.htm
Tornado Formation - Windows to the Universe
http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Atmosphere/tornado/formation.html
Tornado Facts for Kids - Science for Kids
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/weather/tornado.html

Assessment:
Complete a 20-30 minute video about tornadoes and how they are formed. You will receive 35
points for taking time to research, completing the video, having accurate information, and
presenting video on time.

RAFT Row 3
Objective: Research poem formats and complete a poem about education.
Student Role: Be a writer
Audience: English class
Format: Make a poem
Topic: Make a poem about education

Directions:
1. Research different formats of poetry
2. Chose a format and complete a poem about education
3. Practice poem before reciting
4. Turn in and recite poem

Resources:
Websites to visit
Young Writers | Different types and forms of Poetry
https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/glossary-poetry-types
Poem Structure - How to Write Poems - Creative Writing Now
http://www.creative-writing-now.com/poem-structure.html
Education Poems, Poems about Education
http://allpoetry.com/poems/about/Education

Assessment:
You will create a 10-15 line poem about education. For this assignment you will receive 20
points for word choice, completion of poem, and staying on topic.

Section Four: Differentiating Instruction through Technology

One of the significant profits of utilizing engineering as a part of the classroom is the
capacity to separate guideline to address the needs of each understudy in every lesson. Pretty
much as every understudy develops and creates at diverse rates, they learn in distinctive courses
and at distinctive velocities. Engineering makes it conceivable to pace lessons suitably for each
understudy's learning level and can be utilized to advance adapting in the numerous
intelligences.
Technology to Differentiate Instruction
Assessments: Using assessments for differentiate instruction allows teachers to give students
quizzes and can break them up into groups by their quiz scores. This will help the teacher work
with each group of students by their learning skills. Understudies off and on again see peer
appraisal as unreasonable and frequently accept that companions are inadequate to audit and
evaluate understudies' work. Moreover, understudies' observations about the decency of
associate appraisal drop fundamentally taking after understudies' involvement in doing
companion evaluation. Understudies' decency observations and drops in those recognitions are
most altogether connected with their discernments about the degree to which peers' criticism is
valuable and positive. Then again, understudies' observations give off an impression of being
irrelevant to the degree of their update work (Kaufman, J. j., & Schunn, C. (2011). Using the
technology PowerPoint can help create differentiated lessons because PowerPoint includes
pictures and words. Some students learn better by using their visual sense and others learn by
reading and writing down the font that is in front of them. PowerPoint also allows teachers to see
if students are illiterate and know how to create a presentation with providing words and
pictures. Powerpoint materials and their relating interactive media annotations can be at the same

time showed in nature. While showing the current Powerpoint slide, it is shown through one
channel (or projector) and the related annotation or its past slide is displayed through the other
channel (or the other projector). This way can framework learners' intelligible mental
representations to upgrade their learning execution. The proposed framework focused around
cognitive hypothesis can viably help understudies in the trial gathering to have better learning
adequacy for addresses with double slide Powerpoint presentation than that of the routine
gathering. Republished by authorization of the distributer (Lai, Y., Tsai, H., & Yu, P. (2011).
Videos: Using videos can help many students learn such as those who are visual learners, learn
by sound, or even learn by reading. Videos has all of those for them students because videos
have pictures, you can turn on the subtitles, and you can hear what is being said. Incorporating
feature cuts in interactive media address presentations may expand understudies' view of vital
data and inspiration for learning. In light of that, understudies can better comprehend and recall
key purposes of an address. Those upgrades speak to some essential learning conclusions
(Ljubojevic, M., Vaskovic, V., Stankovic, S., & Vaskovic, J. (2014). The context of the video
content and the position of supplementary video clips in teaching material are important
influences on factors for motivation and efficiency of learning.
Educational Games: Allowing students to play games lets them play at their learning level.
Games let students choose any grade level they want so if one student isnt at the grade level of
another student they can choose the level they are comfortable with. Children controlling their
own input devices in a situation with shared screens are more active and therefore demonstrate
less boredom and fewer disruptive attitudes (Beserra, V. v., Nussbaum, M. m., Zeni, R. j.,
Rodriguez, W. w., & Wurman, G. g. (2014). Allowing students to play games makes them more

interested in learning and helps them learn better. Allowing them to have that visual learning
with games helps them keep information a lot better.
Some pros of differentiate instruction are that teachers can figure out their students
learning skills individually by allowing them to do quizzes and other things like that and no other
students will know anyones grades but their own. Some cons are that some students will feel
lonely knowing that they didnt do as well as the other students so their confidence goes down.
Instead of working hard to get up with the other students they might not be too excited to try
their hardest because they already feel like they failed themselves.
In a period of high-stakes testing and responsibility contemporary instructors are
confronted with regularly requests and still constrained time and assets. Luckily, mechanical
advances permit instructors to tailorcurricula to individual understudies rapidly and successfully.
Mechanical assets extending from Excel to Powerpoint to word-handling frameworks with infabricated spell-check and thesaurus peculiarities spur understudies while permitting them to
work all the more autonomously and to get profitable certifiable aptitudes. The best news is that
these imperative innovative assets are as of now broadly accessible to instructors. It's simply a
question of outfitting the potential we as of now have in our classrooms.

References:
Beserra, V. v., Nussbaum, M. m., Zeni, R. j., Rodriguez, W. w., & Wurman, G. g. (2014).
Practising Arithmetic Using Educational Video Games with an Interpersonal Computer.
Journal Of Educational Technology & Society, 17(3), 343-358.
Kaufman, J. j., & Schunn, C. (2011). Students' perceptions about peer assessment for
writing: their origin and impact on revision work. Instructional Science, 39(3),
387-406.
Lai, Y., Tsai, H., & Yu, P. (2011). Integrating Annotations into a Dual-slide PowerPoint
Presentation for Classroom Learning. Journal Of Educational Technology &
Society, 14(2), 43-57.
Ljubojevic, M., Vaskovic, V., Stankovic, S., & Vaskovic, J. (2014). Using
Supplementary Video in Multimedia Instruction as a Teaching Tool to Increase
Efficiency of Learning and Quality of Experience. International Review Of
Research In Open & Distance Learning, 15(3), 275-291.