Lesson Plan

Topic: Recycling Grade Level: Second Grade Maine Learning Results: Students read to comprehend, interpret, analyze, evaluate, and appreciate literary and expository texts by using a variety of strategies. They connect essential ideas and evaluate arguments, and analyze the various perspectives and ideas presented in a variety of literary and expository texts. Students read, paraphrase, and summarize informational texts, within a grade appropriate span of text complexity, for different purposes. C. Identify the main idea(s) of and details from the text which support the main idea(s) succinctly stating this information. Instructional Goals: Students will be able to understand the importance of recycling. As well as how to go about recycling. Instructional Objective: When explained, students will be able to share the importance of recycling and to be able to give examples on recycling. Students will be able to separate glass, plastics, cans and white paper. Students will understand that recycling helps keep the environment clean by reusing things instead of throwing them in the garbage. Materials: Get four wastebaskets, labeling them: glass, plastic, cans, and paper. Teach the Recycle Song: “We RECYCLE what we use, Separate things and you should too! Glass, and paper, plastic, tin, Go in your RECYCLING BIN! We must start now, we can’t wait, Quick or it will be too late!” Show children examples of what goes in which bin and explain the importance of recycling into separate cans At the end of the lesson I would have student break off into small groups and each group will have a pile of recycled goods and they will be able to sing and recycle. Education Technology Standards: a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity. Song Credit: Forum: Pixton Comic: Spreadsheet:

Digital Profiling

 When I Google myself the first thing that comes up in my Husson Cheerleading picture, my Prezi and my Google Plus account. I find that pictures pop up about me even if I did not approve of them.

When I search myself in Facebook a photo comes up but, my profile is blocked which I think is good because not random people can see me and view things that I do not approve of.  I did not find anything to surprising because my Facebook is blocked.

Social Media: When I  become a teacher on my Facebook I am not going to accept any students, colleagues, or parents. On Twitter I would have my tweets protected so when someone tries to follow me I need to approve it first.

Professional Development. An organization that I would join when i become a teacher would be NCTE http://www.ncte.org/ This organization is only $50 with good benefits. The benefits to this organization is job listing for US, seminars, books, careers, lesson plans, rubrics and grants. There is also many seminars to attend to throughout the year. This is a good organization because you can get a good career just from spending $50 and you get many benefits. Another organization that I would join would be The Council Cronicle http://www.aect.org/newsite/ it is $125 for the year, a little pricey, but tolerable. Some of the benefits that you get from this organization is discounts on publications, a one year subscription to Teach Trends for Leaders in Education and Training and other member only benefits. This is an awesome organization to join because there is so much that you get and can use in the teaching career along with multiple benefits.

Google Forms: My Needs Assessment that I worked on in class: http://goo.gl/PRwGb .

Also, the video you showed us in class was so cute and inspirational. I am so glad you showed us it.

BYOD Choosing Resources

1.) I think that BYOD would be great for schools, but sometime not all students have access to the technology. I feel that if schools want to use the BYOD system then they should have extra of the technology for students that do not have access to the technology being used.
2.) I think Pixton was a great tool to use in the classroom. This would be a great activity to use as a project or just a fun in class activity to do to see if students. I would have the students use Pixton in the class.
3.)  I always knew that teachers didn't make that big of a salary, but to actually be able to see how much a teacher in Maine truly makes from starting out to over so many years, or with a bachelors degree or masters. I would absolutely take this resource into consideration when choosing jobs.
4.) When I think about budget cuts think that schools should look at more technology and to also, look at updating classrooms and school. These are many aspects that schools need to look at when they trim budgets cuts.

iPads in the Classroom

      This was the most precious video ever. I love how ipads are used in the classroom to help autistic kids become independent. My mom is a teacher for severe autistic children and they just started to use ipads in her classroom, they are a big hit. After watching this most precious video of Leo and reading what his mother had to say all I wonder is how his skill in hos personal life have changed and how much?
      This whole story is so touching. The most surprising part is how independent Leo has become just from one simple device. I feel like all children especially ones with special needs should at least give an ipad a try, worth a shot. Ipads can definitively help enhance children's memory, dependence and discovery just from a touch of a finger.
        On a regular basis all i use is my phone and an ipad touch. There arem ultiple apps on my ipod touch, but the ones i use the most would be Facebook, Twitter, my bank account and words with friends. Personally, I would recommend Twitter as a major app as well as words with friends. Words with friends is a great game of scrabble with a point system and you can even have a private chat too.
        Some apps that I have found for my own use would be : Educate. This app is free and it is an attendance with out the smudge of a pencil/pen or the lost of the attendance sheet. Teacher Tool, also another free app that allows you to upload grades and absences. Another app that i would love to have in the education field would be Keynote which is only $9.99. This app allows you to upload power points for your class as well as slide shows and templates.
          Some apps that I would like to use for teaching and learning purposes would be: Pages, it is an app that allows you to type documents for assignments. Mathboard would be a fantastic app for children because it is an app that looks like a  chalkboard, has a math problem and four answers that children can pick from and then it shows the problem as if someone was writing it on a chalkboard for them. Grimm's Red Riding Hood app in a 3-d pop up book that allows children to enjoy the art of reading, experiencing it in a whole new way. Typing Tournament is another great app that is a keyboard and teaching people how to type the correct way, so in time they can excel at typing. Another app that is good for learning and teaching would be Alphabeast, it is hand drawn scenes and flashcards for children to learn the alphabet and associate words with letters.

Comic BYOD

Voicethread: My Life as a Cheerleader

TED Videos

 I chose this video because it talks about how diversity links back to DNA so many years ago. This video talks about how we as people share diversity with every living thing that has DNA. This video links to diversity because it discusses how we are linked to African Americans because we share bits of DNA tracing back so many years into your family tree. This video was very fascinating, I would like to know who or what we could be linked to by DNA if scientists went back far enough.



I also, chose this video because it breaks diversity into cultures and how cultures are endangered now. This video links to diversity because it talks about how every person does the same thing being born, living, raising, breeding and dying, but the "dance" of how you do it is different. This video was very interesting, but I would like to learn how we as people could change to keep old cultures and traditions alive.