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Lesson Idea

Lesson Idea Name: The Ugly Duckling

Grade Level/Content Area: 1st Grade ELA
Content Standard Addressed: ELAGSE1RL3: Describe characters, settings, and major events
in a story, using key details.
ISTE Technology Standard Addressed:  What would you like students to know and
CSS.KC. K-2.2 Use digital tools (e.g., computers, be able to do by the end of this lesson:
tablets, cameras, software, 3D printers, etc....) to Students should be able to highlight
build knowledge, produce creative artifacts, and characters, settings, and major events using
make meaningful learning experiences for
PowerPoint.
themselves and others.

The students will be able to create artifacts

using digital tools such as PowerPoint by
utilizing pictures and text to display
knowledge.
What is the student learning goal for this lesson idea?
I can show and describe the characters, settings, and major events of a story using
PowerPoint.

Selected Instructional Software Tool:

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): The Ugly Duckling

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Level(s):

☐ Remembering ☐ Understanding ☐ Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating

☐ Creating

How will this lesson be implemented? Check all that apply.

☐ Teacher-directed: There is no student voice and choice in the activities. Students are guided by the
teacher's direction and expectations.

☐ Student-Led: Students are given voice and choice in the activities. They may select the topic for
presentation and/or determine the tool they will use to meet the learning goal. Products of
learning will be uniquely designed. Teacher simply facilitates the learning in a lesson like this.

☐ Project-based and/or Publishable: Students are completing projects to demonstrate their

learning and the projects can be shared outside of the classroom. This objective could be reached
by displaying the project on the school’s morning newscast, posting the project to the classroom
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Lesson Idea

blog, presenting it to another class, or publishing it via an outside source.

Lesson idea implementation: First, a student will be asked to volunteer to read the learning
goal that will be on the board. The students will first be led in a discussion about how to
apply the learning goal and what it means. They will then discuss how stories can teach the
readers of the story life lessons. The video created around The Ugly Duckling that is linked
above will then be shown. The students will then engage in a think-pair-share discussing the
characters, settings, and notable events. The students will then be formed into groups of four
students and have access to a few fairy tales such as The Ugly Duckling so that they can
create a PowerPoint that includes the name of the story, the characters, information about
them, the settings, and information about the settings, and the main plot. Every group must
choose a different fairy tale, and no one may use The Ugly Duckling. Feedback will be
provided to the students by giving them the rubric that they will be graded on prior to them
starting the project so that they can be sure that they meet all the expectations. The students
will also have multiple opportunities to talk to the teacher. The lesson will be concluded with
the students presenting their PowerPoints.

Managing engagement: Describe a way to use this technology in a way that gets students
actively involved in authentic tasks and contexts? Students will be completing the project in
groups of four and they will have two hours over the course of a few school days to complete
the project. Their end project should thoroughly describe the characters, settings, and main
events. The students will be creating a digital story by making their own renditions of classic
fairy tales. They will be using technology in correspondence to writing out a story board so
their final product looks well thought out and professional. The students must ask another
group if they are having trouble before they may as the teacher and the story board should
directly correspond to the slides that the students will create.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL):
Using PowerPoint can enhance the learning experience for all students in the way that there
are multiple ways of expressing what the students learned. They can be responsible for
different components of creating projects that are directly tied to their strengths such as
making the artwork or determining the main points of the story.
Reflecting on enhanced learning:
I think that student learning will be impacted in the way that the students can learn valuable
life lessons from fairy tales such as in the story about the ugly duckling, he realizes that it
does not matter where you come from, but who you are. I am most looking forward to
watching the presentations and seeing what the students create.