Share+Your+Lessons+Database

//Conferences are expensive, so it's important to share the best information with our schools.//
 * College School District Lesson Plan Idea Knowledge Base **

When at conferences, we can gather powerful or cool ideas using the survey form to the right --->>>>>> It'll all go into a spreadsheet that Chris will recompile into a searchable Wiki page, so everyone can access the tools from whatever conference we have attended. Using this tool, we can share our great experiences district wide.

**Search the lessons** - Use Control F or Command F to search for key phrases within the page

|| === **Motivating with Life Science** ===
 * **Grade Level** || 6-8 Academic Area science ||
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 * **Presenter's Name** || Karen Benitez - kbenitez@sccs.santacruz.k12.ca.us ||
 * **Lesson Description** || Masters project: using tech creates a completion rate, 95% vs. 70% and higher grade (at least 15% higher), better behavior and more focus

Karen says: "I don't need to be the expert on a software - I show them how to open it and they'll figure out how to use it..."

10 sample assignments...see PPT

Writing assignment: Is fire alive? Cancer and Mitosis....done after studying and creating a flip book...

staggered due dates....due Friday, extra credit for turning it in on wed or thur

COMPARING in PPT slides

Smiley Face genetics = AMAZING!!!

Fish word problem..good stuff, Punnett square

Audience participation sheet - teacher walk around, work is built into the PPT

"Simple facts and a lot of repetition=success"

Extra credit: brown/blonde + Spiderman powers BBSS BbSs bbSS

Mendel and his peas online experiment

Lots of graphing in 8th grade test= lots of graphing in science

Seabisbcuit Pedigree web site......pedigreequery.com cross check=graph of amount of winnings || (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || adds better integration of web/tech tools to science very good pedagogies for effective science instruction || note any costs for software or hardware)** || Powerpoint (worth the view)
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better,

[|CLMSconference.ppt]

Black and White moth simulation: echapps.net/interactives/peppermoths.swf

Seabisbcuit Pedigree web site......pedigreequery.com

The ethics of science and the concern about the loss of sign language in non verbal society, should a family of deaf children allow one child to hear or not? www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/film/index.html

Comic Life....we should price a site license.... || or a longer term project?** || a new way of teaching science in general || replace what we do now?** || highly engaging, while also more rigorous ||
 * **Important or valuable URLs** ||  ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-shot lesson, a daily/weekly lesson
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to


 * **Grade Level** || K12 ||
 * **Lesson title** || ===**Enhancing Gifted Education with Technology**=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Wayne Bassinger Cleveland High School ||
 * **Lesson Description** || Projects for gifted kids using blooms taxonomy.

They will retain more information if they teach to someone else. || (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || Research and present material to students. Present information using video, pictures and other storyboards.
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace

Similar to creating the textbook through a wiki.

Have students create or embed videos in wiki based on what they are studying.

Students need to discuss and post comments on other projects. Use the points process students given points and are allowed to to give the points to who they think did the best job. || note any costs for software or hardware)** || Roger Taylor Web site 45 dollars a year. Lessons developed by teachers for gifted students for every subject.
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better,

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 * **Important or valuable URLs** || [] presenters wikispace

zamzar.com Converts youtube

proboards.com a discussion board

simplybox.com organizes internet content similar to delicious except you will see a picture of site along with the information about the site.

evernote.com similar to delicious

techchicktips.com

toondoo.com fee comic strips you fill in the content takes five minutes to make a cartoon

xtimeline.com interactive timeline || or a longer term project?** || Weekly ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-shot lesson, a daily/weekly lesson
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || Find a popular video, create a video with the same background music but with lyrics from a lesson you are teaching.

Students created a video based on a video on youtube called Chocolate Rain. ||

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 * **Grade Level** || K-12 ||
 * **Academic Area** || Multiple ||
 * **Lesson title** || ===**Google Universe**=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Kyle Brumbaugh ||
 * **Lesson Description** || In a nutshell....

All the materials: [] || New ideas for information literacy, using mostly Google search.
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || WEB 1.0 Ideas:

Using different country codes (.ZA for South Africa, etc) to look at info from a non American point of view...

Learning about page rankings using compete.com

Google forms for surveys, an amazing tool like Survey Monkey or Zoomerang for free.

WEB 2.0 Ideas (Web 2.0 is published!) General powerpoint failure? Build wikis instead. Why? It's published! It's richer! It has legs, it's not just 3 minutes of reading the slides. Use a kid voting process, each kid get a certain amount of points to vote for the best.

"As much as we like IT people, they are not educators.."

Another Free Wiki = Wetpaint

Capuchino HS Technology ARTS web page...lots of good ideas []

Clay Shirky...Here Comes Everybody []

World Wide Literacy - a great graphic on new literacies [] || Lawrence Lessig Ted Conference tech pirates video Complete vid, best stuff at the end: []
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** || nothing but internet and lappies ||
 * **Important or valuable URLs** || WEB 1.0 Stuff

xtvista.org teacher and student videos

compete.com (web traffic tracking tool) look up any URL's traffic

A Vision of Students Today, from Kansas St U [] also: digital ethnography

AND

The Machine is us/using us www.youtube.com/v/6gmP4nk0EOE []

WEB 2.0 Stuff: ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** || Quarterly or more ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || this set of lessons and tools for 'net literacy....

easywhois.com to determine URL ownership, i.e. MartinLutherKing.org is a hate site, we can learn about the people who created it and who owns it. ||


 * **Grade Level** || K12 ||  ||
 * **Academic Area** || ===**School Wide Assessment**=== ||
 * **Lesson title** || Driving Instruction through Data Analysis ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Luis C. Panduro, principal ||
 * **Lesson Description** || Analyzing data from assessments ||
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || An original, PI-5 school with almost 100 points of growth

Use of Data Director and EDS (see below for more info)

Powerpoint: [|CLMS-CLHS Tech Assessment Presentation.ppt]

57 teachers in English and Math at a middle school (!) Every year: 8 weeks prescheduled, up front prescheduled for reflection/reteach and standards analysis after the quarterly and midquarterly assessments

LESS IS MORE: FOR EXAMPLE =for her poetry was a 9 week unit, BUT only 3 STAR questions on the quiz

FIDELITY: doesn't mean an irrational following of state adopted materials, it means making an honest effort to follow the state standards using all materials needed

Ed testing service provides their test bank to the state and it's $4 a kid a year EXTREMELY close to the STAR - same manufacturer, same writers - this school's results were within 2% of their preassessments...booklets look the same, etc. MUCH lager test bank, with LEVELS of difficulty inside a strand.....

Bad deal in Data Director...2 questions per standard, not enough data points

Able to generate teacher API reports in ETS, excellent PR tool

Staff knowledgeable about each other's scores=professionalism, and no where to hide

Staff lounge has current API and pre-api scores for all teachers up on the wall, publicly

Flow: 3 weeks teach, test, one week review OR enrich

"Teaching LESS is MORE"

Honesty and transparency in sharing all data

Safe Harbor in AYP = 10% growth in a give area is considered success

Educational Testing Service= GREAT STAR equivalent assessment tool || [] || focusing on standards that will actually be assessed, lean up the schedule natural order of standards, teach the standards in the order that makes the most sense. What standards can be taught together. ||
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** ||  ||
 * **Important or valuable URLs** || API Calculation Worksheet at CDE for FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** || Year Long/Continuing mid quarter and quarter assessments ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || Spiral standards that are one or two questions on the CST throughout the year as oppose to spending a week reviewing that standard.

all over the world...the American ones are wireless... showing laptops in a one room school house in Nigeria and India showing mimeo machines, opaque projectors..sharing himself listed at "hot or not"...and he voted for himself...he gave a Tech quiz to 400 hs kids..text message =all, facebook=all, video game=all, read a blog post only **10 of 400**
 * **Grade Level** || K-12 ||
 * **Academic Area** || Technology ||
 * **Lesson title** || ===**The Global One Room Schoolhouse**=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || David Jakes ||
 * **Lesson Description** || Connective Technologies and learning communities. ||
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || Google Earth is being used to show functioning one room school houses

Implementation: What is your plan? Teachers first Are your teachers networked? Pilots? Policies? AUP vs. RUP? Free vs. Hosted?

Expectations: Will use be expected? Goal-based and systemic? Scope and sequence? Pockets of Innovation?

Growth and Sustainability: How will you sustain momentum and continually grow? ||
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** || zinch.com > social networking site for prospective COLLEGE students ||
 * **Important or valuable URLs** || Open Yale > online courses from YALE

MIT Open Courseware

4 C's Connect, collaborate, create, contribute

my starbucks idea.com

eol.org encyclopedia of life

Make our classrooms like a starbucks, students come in move things around interacting reading discussing interacting.

Vision: Publish locally vs. globally, which do you want to do first?

five freedoms.org social networking site

stories for change.com

strengthofweak ties.org ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** || n/a ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || see above ||


 * **Grade Level** || K-12 ||
 * **Academic Area** || Multiple areas ||
 * Lesson title || ===Cell Phones on Campus=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Warren Drake ||
 * **Lesson Description** || cell phone voting letsgovote.com

samsung turbo 3000 funny video on a multi-use cell phone

polleverywhere.com better alternative than lets go vote. Let's have students compare and contrast the two sites. || (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || using cell phones in class || for software or hardware)** || see above and below || longer term project?** || Daily Lesson || replace what we do now?** || Kids can use cell phones during class to make videos and podcasts. ||
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs
 * **Important or valuable URLs** || see above and below ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to

(i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || Take pictures to tell your story and post on your blog. Percents and fractions find me something on sale take a picture do the calculation and present. Cartoon, blog podcast 80% of the time they spend on project is researching content and writing scripts. 20 percent is shooting video or taking pictures. Interviewing CEO's, authors, or musicians, students have to do research on the person or company before interview.
 * **Grade Level** || K12 ||
 * **Academic Area** || Multiple ||
 * **Lesson title** || ===**21st Century Publishing on the Web**=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Ted Lai ||
 * **Lesson Description** || Publishing on the web using podcasts. ||
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace

chapterize podcasts make podcasts more user friendly. comic life free download. Post comics on line to tell your story or present your lesson. ||
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** || EFT video podcasts. We can use these already created podcasts that are ready to use in the classroom.

Coulee kids podcasts. [] go to the above website to download I think it is free. [] ted lai website

voicethread.com Entire group discussions on one page. Students can text in call in webcast.

apple.com/education podpiperproductions.com ali.apple.com techsavvygirlz.com ||
 * **Important or valuable URLs** ||  ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** || Weekly Lesson ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || Students can explain a concept the way they understand and how they think it should be presented, blog, wiki, podcast ||

ouyang@csusm@csusm.edu || replace (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || Moodle link: []
 * **Grade Level** || K12 ||
 * **Academic Area** || Science ||
 * **Lesson title** || ===**Earth Science**=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Kathy Hayden, khayden@csusm.edu
 * **Lesson Description** || Cyberteam Moodle Earth Science Resources ||
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or

Moodle sign up link: []

books become less relevant in the face of simulation and real time data - the data is delivered in REAL EVENTS and REAL TIME

the moodle becomes a focus point of the class, includes tests, essays, discussions, etc (although this could be done with a wiki)

Want to learn to locate an epicenter? []

Amazing simulations...see the URL section for more Internet connection, Moodle, cost is free

computer access Moodle link: []

Moodle sign up link: []

Handout to gain Moodle access: [] || Real time earthquake monitor [] Jules Verne Voyager - plate tectonics [] Geology Animations: [] Earthquake terms animations.... [] 100 Years After the SF Earthquake: [] ||
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** || All of these and more in the Moodle demo class:
 * **Important or valuable URLs** ||  ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** || Year Long/Continuing ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || allows for faster learning and deeper knowledge than worksheets~terribly exciting!! ||

|| Middle school, but applicable to all levels. || how we deliver education. The classrooms at Mullholland Middle School are exciting places to learn and technology has been the leverage to make it happen. Indeed, along the way, Mullholland has seen a 200+ gain in their API score.
 * **Grade Level**
 * **Academic Area** || All ||
 * **Lesson title** || ===**AN ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDE TO WEB 2.0**=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || John White and Warren Dale, Mullholland Middle School ||
 * **Lesson Description** || This session focused on one principal’s experience in rethinking

What learning tool/activity will this achieve or replace (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab. Words or jigsaw a lesson, etc.)? || (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || First of all, there is a paradigm and structural shift here. The campus is completely wireless with 600 student laptops, 80 staff laptops, three dedicated computer labs, 3 T-1 lines coming in to the school and over 1,000 computers operating each and every day.
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace

Major learning tools and instructional practices including going to all on-line assessments so students do not lose time waiting for feedback, results, etc.

Additionally, instructional staff has embraced all means of technology including the use of cell phones as student response devices (i.e. search for free tools). || and use existing student technology access such as cell phones.
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** || Mullholland encourages other to search for free web-based tools

Additionally, they dedicate one week to professional development and teacher training related to instructional technology gear.

Mullholland dedicates 20% of its categorical budget to technology and training. They use their Title 1 budget to focus on technology that will improve student achievement. || means to evaluate and provide feedback to staff. ||
 * **Important or valuable URLs** || jott.com ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** || Ongoing ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || Videotape your classrooms and what students are doing as

design model that better reflects the way 21st century students learn. It is called the Social and Cognitive Connectedness Schemata (SCCS). This is intended to boost one’s instructional capacity for today’s learner. || (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || This is a new pedagogy with new methods, practice, teaching strategies, etc. This is based on new type of student and learner who has a different social and cognitive schemata. It is about things like Digital Navigation Literacy and Interactive Discovery-Based Learning. Also, elements of Game Design relate to this new approach to learning and the student. || the Right Brain.” Other references were the “Blind Man and the Elephant.” || __[]__ ) || look at the 21st century learner/student. ||
 * **Grade Level** || K12 ||
 * **Academic Area** || All ||
 * **Lesson title** || ===**A 21st Century Learning Theory**=== ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Marie Sontag, Union Elementary School District ||
 * **Lesson Description** || This is a new, research-based learning theory and instructional
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** || References to Daniel Pink’s research and writings “Revenge of
 * **Important or valuable URLs** || his new theory and practice is well represented at
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** ||  ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || this lesson is about pedagogical change and a new way to

that threads through the core academic content areas. This is a strategy for understanding and evaluating any technology by participating in standards-based activities culled from a free, downloadable middle school curriculum. Additional background is that this is related to CDE’s Chapter Four on Relevance. This focuses on standards that says learning should be infused with technology and that technology should be infused with learning. || (i.e. a new way to do research, math tool, presentation idea, classwork flow, new way to do vocab words or jigsaw a lesson)** || It will show the fallacy in myths such as Understand = Operate or Technology = Computers. It is about Technology Competency vs. Technology Literacy. It is about Operating vs. Evaluating. The program is called ICE-9 and it focuses on NINE essential questions. ICE (Identify, Change and Evaluate). It’s not about competence for the few, but literacy for all. ||
 * **Grade Level** || Middle School, but applicable to all ||
 * **Academic Area** || All CORE areas ||
 * **Lesson title** || **Critical Thinking About Technology** ||
 * **Presenter's Name** || Miguel Aznar, KnowledgeContext ||
 * **Lesson Description** || Technology in education can be a cross-disciplinary curriculum
 * **What this learning tool/activity will achieve or replace
 * **List tools, web resources needed (free is better, note any costs for software or hardware)** || ICE-9 (Free downloadable curriculum) ||
 * **Important or valuable URLs** || knowledgecontext.com/Curriculum/download.htm ||
 * **Is this lesson a one-short lesson, a daily/weekly lesson or a longer term project?** ||  ||
 * **• Why is lesson a good option for engagement or a way to replace what we do now?** || The NINE essential questions are:

I – Identify


 * 1) What is it?
 * 2) Why do we use it?
 * 3) Where does it come from?
 * 4) How does it work

C-Change


 * 1) How does it change?
 * 2) How does it change us?
 * 3) How do we change it?

E- Evaluate


 * 1) What are its costs and benefits?
 * 2) How do we evaluate it? ||

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