TPACK Creating Assignment Template

Content Knowledge

Subject Science

Grade Level Second Grade

Learning Objective 2.4 The student will investigate and understand that
plants and animals undergo a series of orderly
changes as they mature and grow. Key concepts
include
a) animal life cycles; and
b) plant life cycles.
Pedagogy Planning

Complete this sentence by naming the technology tool and the creation activity:

In this activity, my students are going to use Popplet to create a flow

map about the life cycle of a plant as well as the life cycle of a
butterfly or frog.
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? Add numbers as you need to describe your
class/activity for the day.
Technology
The students will be introduced to the term life cycle
and what it means. I will discuss the process of the
plant life cycle and the difference between an animal
cycle that begins from an egg and one that begins
from live birth. Students will be focusing on the life
cycle for two creatures: a butterfly and a frog.
Students will decide which plant’s lifecycle they will
research (the plant must be one that produces seeds).
They will also decide whether they would like to
include
Weba 2.0
butterfly or a frog’s
used islife cycle. Once the

Web 2.0 Technology The tool being Popplet. It is available

Name of the device and/or programs being used. (The
description of what the students will be doing with the
through the website https://www.popplet.com/ or it
technology will be included in the pedagogy/activity section). can be accessed through a mobile app.

Link to the example product you https://app.popplet.com/#/p/6015430

made pretending to be a student
Mobile App Option Popplet is available as a mobile app under the name
Popplet Lite. This option is free for use and is available
in all mobile app stores.