Carla Benton

LITR 630
Wiki Lesson Plan
June 26, 2017

Title of Lesson Shared Animal Research Project

Grade Level Kindergarten
Time for Lesson 60 minutes
ISTE Standards 2a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or
others employing a variety of digital environments and media
2d. Contribute to project teams to produce original works or
solve problems
3b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and
ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
ILA Standards 2.2 Candidates use appropriate and varied instructional
approaches, including those that develop word recognition,
language comprehension, strategic knowledge, and reading
writing connections
2.3 Candidates use a wide range of texts (e.g., narrative,
expository, and poetry) from traditional print, digital, and
online resources
4.2 Candidates use a literacy curriculum and engage in
instructional practices that positively impact students
knowledge, beliefs, and engagement with the features of
diversity.
5.1 Candidates design the physical environment to optimize
students use of traditional print, digital, and online resources
in reading and writing instruction.
Kentucky Teacher 6.1 Uses available technology to design and plan instruction.
Standards 6.2 Uses available technology to implement instruction that
facilitates student learning.
6.5 Demonstrates ethical and legal use of technology.
Common Core Standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY WK6 With guidance and support
from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and
publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY WK7 Participate in shared research
and writing projects
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY WK8 With guidance and support
from adults, recall information from experiences or gather
information from provided sources to answer a question.
Objectives 1. Students will participate in a shared project.
2. Students will gather information to answer questions.
Accommodations Voice to text typing; text to speech for non-readers
Materials Smart Board, Wiki, Chrome Books, iPads, access to computer
lab if possible, 5 star writing rubric
Procedure 1. Introduce the lesson: We have learned how to use a search
engine to learn more about animals. Today, you are going to
work with partners to choose an animal to research and then
write about. You will do this on our Wiki page.
Carla Benton
LITR 630
Wiki Lesson Plan
June 26, 2017

2. Bring up Wiki.
3. Show students the Wiki Animal pages: I have completed the
page on Emperor Penguins that we did together when learning
how to use the KidRex search engine. (Show this page to the
students.) Each group is to choose a different animal. Write
your names on the page with the animal your group chooses.
Explain that the page also contains the questions they need to
answer about their chosen animal. Your answers must be in
complete sentences. Do not write one word answers and do not
copy what the computer says. Tell the students to go to
KidRex.org to do the research.
4. Reminders: Ask specific questions. Check the readability
with the students; eliminate those that sound too hard to read.
Take a moment to look at the page and see if it sounds good. Is
there anything that might make us question the site? Drawings
instead of photos? Cartoons? Do not forget to tell where you
found your answer.
5. As each question is read and the answer found, return to the
Wiki to write the answer and tell where you found it. There is
a rubric on each page to help you remember how to write a
complete sentence.
6. Lesson wrap: Today we worked with partners to research an
animal. We wrote our findings on a Wiki page. Tomorrow we
will take our findings and begin to turn them into a photo story
that we will publish.
Assessment Each student will answer at least two questions on the Wiki
and in complete sentences
Next Step Tomorrow, we will finish our research if needed and then
begin to create a photo story of our animal.