Basic Productivity Presentation Tool

Lesson Idea

Lesson Idea Name: Create your own story.

Grade Level/Content Area: 3rd Grade
Content Standard Addressed: 1.6a – Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for
meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
ISTE Technology Standard Addressed:  What would you like students to know and
Creative Communicator 1.6a – Students choose be able to do by the end of this lesson:
the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting  The students will be able to navigate
the desired objectives of their creation or Microsoft Sway at the end of this
communication. lesson.
 Students will be able to create their
own story.
What is the student learning goal for this lesson idea?
The learning outcome for this lesson is that students will be able to navigate a new Basic
Productivity Tool that can help them in the future.

Selected Basic Productivity Tool: Microsoft Sway

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): https://sway.office.com/my

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:

I will prompt this lesson by showing the students my sway story about how cats communicate
with us, this will get the ball moving. The students will know what their goal is because the
goals will be on the board. Students will use technology in this lesson by creating their own
Sway story. The teacher will assess how the students are performing and will help whenever
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Lesson Idea

needed. Feedback will be provided for students during the production process.

Managing the technology/engagement: Describe a way to use this technology in a way that
gets students actively involved in authentic tasks and contexts? How will you manage the
classroom behaviors on the technology:
Co-use/Co-engagement for using different browsers to gather information as well as Sway.
Exploration activities to extend their learning about a topic, time-on-task with continued
focus on the learning goal, by letting them tell their stories.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

Action and Expression because this allows the students to show their thoughts and feeling as
well as their likes to other students as well as the teacher.

Reflecting on enhanced learning:

I believe this lesson will be fun and interactive for the students because, this allows them to
be creative and not be constricted to certain topics to write about that they aren’t interested
in. I would love to implement this into my classroom and I am so grateful to have found
Microsoft Sway.