TPACK Creating Assignment Template

Content Knowledge

Subject Science

Grade Level 4th Grade

Copy and paste the standard/s here from the website

Learning Objective
The objective of the lesson is what students will be able to do
as they finish the activity. For this objective, use the
Standards of Learning (SOL) to say what you want to focus
on.
You can find the SOLs at
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/testing/ look on the right of the
screen for the subjects and go from there.
Pedagogy Planning
4.5 The student will investigate and understand how
plants and animals, including humans, in an
ecosystem interact with one another and with the
nonliving components in the ecosystem.
d) habitats and niches;
e) changes in an organism’s niche at various stages in
its life cycle; and
f) influences of human activity on ecosystems.

Complete this sentence:

In this activity, my students are going to use Padlet to create a Timeline of their animal .

For example: In this activity, my students are going to use Edublogger to create a blog from the view of
Abraham Lincoln.
Pedagogy

Activity Describe what the learning activity will be. What

will the students and the teacher be doing? (This includes
what they are doing with the technology). Many people tend
to find this part easier if they number the action in order and
think of this from the view of a substitute teacher. This lesson
was left on the desk, can you follow it and teach the class
today?
Students will be creating a model of the animals they
created in the habitat they live in. They will use
recycled material from there home to create the
animals and habitat. After they are done with their
model, they will take pictures of it to include in the
second part of this project. We will bring them into
class.

Part 3: and
Students will create a timeline
docs about the life of
Technology

Technology Padlet google classroom/

Name of the device and/or programs being used. (The
description of what the students will be doing with the
technology will be included in the pedagogy/activity section).
Directions for Use
Please provide step-by-step instructions for your students to
use the tool to complete their assignment. Depending on
the age of your student, this might begin with 1. Click on
Earth to open the Internet. Etc..
Part 2: Saving your picture (Next class after project)
Part 1 : Creating and making your animal
1. Save Recyclables from home and lunch (bring
them into the classroom, wash them off, and
place in our recycling bin)
2. Pick two or more animals to combine or make
up your own animal.
3. Think of possible habitats, places where they
live, and what they would eat (omnivore,
herbivore, or carnivore) and name of the
species.
4. Draw out what the animal will look like and
what the name of your animals is. (You can
have more than one option this is your first
draft.) Write down what they eat.
5. Choose what animal and habitat you want to
create.
6. At home use different recyclables to create a
model of your animal in its habitat. You can
take some from our recycling bin.
7. Bring it to school By __/__/20__
8. When you bring projects to class with your
First Draft with drawings and we will take
pictures of our projects.
1. Get laptops, turn them on, and log in. If you
forgot your login it will be on the blackboard
on your index card or it is in your agenda.
2. Click on the google button (symbol) that will
be on the bottom bar of your computer.
3. Sign into google by clicking on the “Sign in”
button on the top righthand side
4. Place your School email and then login using
your email and password.
5. Go to Google Drive (symbol)
6. Click on Shared with me (screenshot)
7. Click on the “My animals” files that will have
the pictures of your animal.
8. Scroll down the page until you see your name
and the pictures of your animal.
9. Click on your photo and then right click the
mouse and choose save to keep.
10. Right click the phot when it appears under
notes and right click it again and pick save
image as…
11. Choose pictures on the left side. Click on the
“File Name:” bar and place the name of your
animal; click on save on the bottom right
corner.
 Part 3: the timeline
1. Get laptops, turn them on, and log in. If you
forgot your login it will be on the blackboard
on your index card or it is in your agenda.
2. Click on the google button (symbol) that will
be on the bottom bar of your computer.
3. Click on the web bar on the top of the screen
padlet.com and click on login then login with
google. Proceed to click on their account
email that is showing.
4. Show students how to pick the timeline
option on creating a new padlet.
5. To create a point in your timeline, click on the
+ across the dotted line. This will allow you to
include points at any point of your timeline.
6. Using the example make sure you have a
picture included inside the timeline boxes and
a box for how plastic or pollution has affected
their animal and habitat during any time
period of its life.
7. When done have them copy the link and paste
it on a google doc file in google classroom
Names “MyAnimalTimeline”.

Include the hyperlink here so your instructor can see what you have created.
Link to the example product
https://padlet.com/badai001/p652dlnzhghq
Before you submit, delete the explanatory text (the text in small italics).

Teacher instructions

1. Create the animals with habitat with recycled materials at home in a shoebox or a box around
the size of a shoebox.
2. Bring in projects so the teacher can take pictures and upload them to a google doc for
students named “My animals” to be able to download onto their computers.
3. Have students grab their laptop from there cart group by group.
4. Have them turn on the laptop and login. Have student’s login their computers. If they forgot
their username and password there will be on index cards attached to the blackboard in front
of the classroom.
5. Have students go to google and login again. If doing at home, they will have their password in
their agenda or folder.
6. Click on the google doc in the upper right-hand side and go to the shared with me section and
choose the file that said my animals Project.
7. They will then find the picture of their animal and have them right click the picture for them to
save photo. Then proceed to padlet.
8. Go to padlet.com and click on login then login with google. Proceed to click on their account
email that is shoeing.
9. Show students how to pick the timeline option on creating a new padlet.
10. Using the example have them realize that they will need a picture included inside the timeline
boxes and a box for how plastic or pollution has affected their animal and habitat.
11. When done have them copy the link and paste it on a google doc file in google classroom by
showing them where it is located.
12. **Do it with them**