Tara S.

Taglienti
Maria Esposito
EDU 524.59: Using Technology to Support Literacy in the K-12 ELA Classroom Summer
2016

Topic: Social Studies / Technology

Essential Question: How can I prepare and review for the social studies assessment by
using technology apps to create study guides?
Content Objective 1: (Days 1 - 4, 1 day for each country) Students will be able to gather
specific information about United States, Mexico, Japan, and Kenya and complete a graphic
organizer for study guides. Students will organize their information on
popplet.com. http://popplet.com/app/#/3376222

Content Objective 2: (Days 5) Students will select one country (United States, Mexico,
Japan, or Kenya) to focus on. They will ask other students to tell them one word/fact about
the country in order to create a word. Students can use
https://tagul.com
http://www.abcya.com/word_clouds.htm
http://www.wordle.net/

Content Objective 3: (Days 6- 7, 2 days with 2 countries per day in order to review all
four) Students will be able to work with a buddy to compare and contrast two of the four
countries by creating a Venn Diagram. Technology will be integrated by using
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn_diagrams/

Assessment: (Day 8) Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of content

informational facts about the United States, Mexico, Japan, and Kenya by taking an online
assessment on http://quizizz.com