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Lesson Idea

Ms. Phoebe Bunny

Lesson Idea Name: Elevation of Story to Storybook.

Grade Level/Content Area: 5th grade science.
Content Standard Addressed: S4e2a. Develop a model to support an explanation of the way the
length of day and night change throughout the year. 
ISTE Technology Standard Addressed:  What would you like students to know and
1.4b Innovative Designer. - Students select and be able to do by the end of this lesson:
use digital tools to plan and manage a design Students will understand the scientific night
process that considers design constraints and and day model, take their understanding of a
calculated risks previous scientific model, and create with a
visual eBook.

What is the student learning goal for this lesson idea?

I will understand the scientific night and day model, take my understanding of a previous
scientific model, and create with it a visual eBook.

Selected Instructional Software Tool:

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): Microsoft PowerPoint.

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

Lesson idea implementation: After reaching proficiency in standard S4e2a, students will
select their favorite science standard that they have learned thus far. Students will be watching/listening
to my eBook of the story I wrote based on S4e2a. Students will draft a short story based on their chosen
standard. Students will be assisted in using PowerPoint to create visual eBooks of their own. Students
will be allowed to publish their stories in the classroom, allowing us to read each other's stories.
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Lesson Idea

Ms. Phoebe Bunny

Feedback will be provided in person while working on the books and online via inline feedback in
PowerPoint as stories will be shared with the teacher. The lesson concludes with the reading of stories
to the class by any volunteering students.

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 given space to collaborate with other students as certain standards will naturally be
chosen by multiple students. The lesson and activities can be implemented as groups instead of
individually to allow for co-use of the tools in this lesson. The teacher will be managing time-on-task
during computer time.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): This lesson leans into the Multiple Means of Expression
pillar of Universal Design for Learning. In this lesson, students will be adopting a new means
of expression that will ever after being available to them. By grouping students for this
lesson, students will express proficiency together in the story writing and book creation steps
as suits them best will allowing exposure to steps which may be a weaker area of
understanding.

Reflecting on enhanced learning:

This lesson encourages collaboration. The lesson supports learning in students by bringing
them together as they assist each other in working at the Creation level of Blooms Taxonomy.
I look forward to reading the stories in storybook form and hearing those stories read by
proud students.