Inspiration Activity Documentation

Project Name: A Spider Web of Animal Vocabulary
Using Inspiration to review Animal vocabulary.

Description of Learning Goals:
QCC: Demonstrates understanding of semantic relationships by using pictures, context clues, word meaning and prior knowledge from reading. Will the students be able to use the clues and answer questions reflecting knowledge of the vocabulary? The technology that will be use is Inspiration and the whole class will construct an animal vocabulary web.

Rational for Technology:
The technology in the lesson will help visually link together all the vocabulary to pictures and other ideas to embrace all the studied concepts. I think that adding technology to this lesson will help bring the ideas to life and give the students good visual aids. Which will end to up looking like a food web that the students will study in later grades.

Description of Lesson Implementation:
This lesson will be used with the whole class. The teacher will project an empty Inspiration Web on the Projector. The bubbles well have questions that the students will answer. As the students answer the questions the teacher will complete the web. The web will also include pictures for context clues. As the web gets more and more complete the concept of how it all relates will become obvious. I think that relating the entire concept, as a whole is important at the end of this lesson. The teacher will really want to get across the idea of the entire animal being interrelated.

Assessment:
The students will be assessed based on teacher observation. This lesson will be done as an entire class no actually grade will be given. The students who are having trouble with these concepts will become very obvious due to their level on participation.

Other Places…
This activity could be used for any subject. It works very well for animals because of the food chain idea and how they all relate.

Improve for Next Time…
It would be good to create a few different webs in a copy/paper form for the class to do individual basis in that way they would all get different answers. (There would be 4 different copies). This lesson could also be beneficial in a test format.

References:

I used ideas that I found for my web page project and my own general knowledge:
http://eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Animals/ANM0005.html
I found this lesson plan and thought that idea was fun and used it to base my web page activity off of it.

http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/crochunter/australiazoo/08nativesnakes.html
Snake website- Animal planet

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/logic/logic.html
Game

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/PhotoGallery/GreatCats/9.cfm
Smithsonian Institute
http://www.ftcsc.k12.in.us/resource/currmap/s1vocb.rtf


Copyright Addie Bolton March 3, 2005
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