Recipes for Technology Integration

Linda L. MillsGreensburg Community Schools

lmills@venus.net http://www.greensburg.k12.in.us/ges/Library/

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Ingredients needed…• Library media specialist• Teachers• Technology• Supportive administrators• Students• Standards

Blend these all together and what do

you get?Collaboration!

Higher achieving students!Happy administrators!

Contented teachers/lms!

To blend well, you must plan:

• Anytime• Anywhere• Formally• Informally• BUT make sure you write it down!

Primary Ingredient• Know the standards• Use the website (

http://www.doe.state.in.us/asap/academicstandards.html )

• Combine standards

Secondary Ingredients• Computer

labs• Computers in

classroom• Camcorders• Scanners

•Digital cameras•SmartBoards•AlphaSmarts•Books/Magazines•Programs

AlphaSmarts?

• Portable keyboards• Other names• Writing• Math problems• Keyboarding

SmartBoards?•Internet•Writing•Games•Presentations•Demonstrations•http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+Activities/default.htm

•http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/

Digital Cameras?• Field trips• Student pictures• Wanted posters• Writing prompts• Place/positions

Learning and Leading with Technology

(ISTE publication)

http://www.iste.org

Programs • Inspiration/Kidspiration• Kid Pix• Scholastic Keys• Graph Club• TimeLiner• Any word processor • Any spreadsheet

Kindergarten

• Patterns• Numbers• Alphabet• Writing simple stories

K.1.14 match all consonant sounds to appropriate letters

K.1.6 Recognize and name all capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet

Alphabet book made by class LA K.1.4, K.1.18,

I see a snowman. He is big! My snowman has a black hat. AJK.4.5 Write by moving from left to right and from top to bottomK.4.2 Tell a story that the teacher or some other person will write.

First Grade

• Tools• Plants• Compound words• Maps• Nutrition• Compound Words• Turkeys

Tool book

Identifying parts of plants

1.1.16 Read and understand simple compound words and contractions.

Standards: LA1.6.2 (using complete sentences)

S.S. 1.3.7 Draw simple maps that show how land is included in the school and local community.

Math 1.2.3 Show equivalent forms of the same number.

Math 1.5.7 Identify and give the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes.

Friends

Recess

Rebecca

What I like about first

grade

Eating

Reading

Graphic Organizators

Standards: LA1.5.1 organizing stories

1.4.2 Use various organizational strategies to plan writing

1.4.2 Use various organizational strategies to plan writing

Where we live

Internet sites• Clifford the Big Red Dog

http://www.scholastic.com/clifford/ • Jan Brett http://www.janbrett.com • Polar Express

Tooth Unit

Ingredients– First grade class– Teacher and media specialist– Online collaboration with other classes– Global Schoolnet

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/center/index.html

Process– Do K-W-L chart on teeth– Research the tooth– Draw tooth in Kid Pix– Graph how many teeth lost each month,

compare it to the other schools involved– Read about the tooth fairy– Draw the tooth fairy; keep researching

teeth

1.4.2 Use various organizational strategies to plan writing.

AuthorsExamples• Eric Carle• Helen Lester• Norman Bridwell

Variations• Art teacher talked about Carle’s

art style• Create caterpillars structured

on Carle’s art work• Students write using

AlphaSmarts to create author books

• Read and discuss The Very Hungry Caterpillar

• Explore graphs• Graph what the caterpillar ate• Create individual student graphs

in lab• Use different graph forms

Helen Lester• Read Tacky the Penguin books

• Discuss penguins with class

• Bring penguin books in; discuss table

of contents, and index

• Determine a list of questions

• Do research and take notes on sticky notes

Second Grade

• Describing words• Biographies• Goods• Urban, Rural• Long Ago• Animals• Graphing

• Venn Diagrams• Math

short

talltiny

little

humongous

medium

huge

bigfat

large Describing words for size

enormous

small

slim

skinny

medium

Standards: LA1.5.4 using describing words

He was the

father of our

country.

He fought for our

independence.

He was married

to Martha.

He was our first

president

George Washington

Standards: SS 1.5.2 famous people and LA1.1.5 writing stories

S.S. 2.3.2 Identify community workers who provide goods and services.

S.S. 2.1.1 Listen to historical stories and compare daily life in the past and present.

More projects• Penguins• Snakes• Spiders• Landforms• Landmarks• Solar System

ContinentsIngredients• All second grades• Teachers and library media specialist• Lots of books about the continents,

countries, folktales• Large maps

Third Grade• Adjectives• Systems of the Body• Simple Machines• Biomes (rainforest, deserts,

oceans, caves, polar regions, ponds, forests

6 +1 Writing Trait: Descriptive words

• Learned how to take notes• Reviewed table of contents and index• Learned how to use online

encyclopedias• Learned how to find books on Alex• Drew pictures of their animals• Printed pictures of animals• Wrote and corrected paragraphs on

animals• http://www.greensburg.k12.in.us/

ges/library

DesertsIngredients• Teacher and library media specialist• Desert books• Cactus books• Discuss life cycle of a cactus• Kidspiration

Fourth Grade•Historical Fiction•Animal Groups•Animal books/online encyclopedia•Scientists•How to writing

Organization writing

Fifth Grade• Colonial occupations• Lewis and Clark• Space Second one• INSPIRE

WebQuests• Internet activity or paper and pencil• Student centered• Research• Higher level thinking• http://webquest.org/ Bernie Dodge• Snakes• Insects

Using the Web for research:• Online encyclopedias• INSPIRE• My web site

http://www.greensburg.k12.in.us/ges/library

• Other kid search engines• Other sites

Over 2 dozen databases with: • Thousands of magazines and journals

with full-text• Hundreds of newspapers from around the

U.S. • Material for students in elementary school

in INSPIRE Kids and junior high and high school in the Student Research Center

.

Need to teach students to:

• Evaluate sites• How to be safe on the Internet• How to choose keywords• How to not plagiarize

Remember------• Know your standards• Think about standards• Know your curriculum• Think about curriculum• Investigate technology• Learn technology

Remember• Work with others• Work with your media

specialist• Read magazines, books, etc.• Visit other schools• Go to conferences• And most of all--------

Have fun using technology! You and your students will enjoy learning together.