Intro To Nets For Students (3 5)
- 1. Intro to NETS for Students Grade Level 3-5 A Closer Look at Some Actual Student Performance Indicators By Kathleen Sand
- 2. 1. Produce a media-rich digital story about a significant local event based on first-person interviews. (1, 2, 3, 4) Aftermath of San Diego Wildfires 2007
- 3. 1. Produce a digital story (cont’d) (1, 2, 3, 4) With digital camcorder, interview friends, family members, and fellow students about the wildfire disaster. Import videos to iMovie .
- 4. Drag in still photos and background music from iTunes. Add title with animated background; include transitions between interviews. Include one video effect from the Preview Palette (on the pop-up menu of Advanced Tools in the iMovie site). 1. Produce a digital story (cont’d) (1, 2, 3, 4)
- 5. Use digital-imaging technology to modify or create works of art for use in a digital presentation. (1, 2, 6) Advertisement for a healthy diet
- 6. Modify or create works of art (cont’d) (1, 2, 6) Create a short poem or jingle on vegetable gardening. Illustrate poem with at least one clipart image and at least one original drawing.
- 7. 2. Modify or create works of art (cont’d) (1, 2, 6) Scan your drawing(s); save to your desktop. Create an advertisement for a healthy eating style, incorporating your illustrated poem.
- 8. Conduct science experiments using digital instruments and measurement devices. (4, 6) Trends in weather around the world
- 9. 6. Conduct science experiments (cont’d) (4, 6) Use graphing software to create a monthly weather chart with weather codes and symbols to record: Daily high and low temperatures Wind direction and speed Precipitation amounts and form of precipitation
- 10. 6. Conduct science experiments (cont’d) (4, 6)
- 11. 6. Conduct science experiments (cont’d) (4, 6) Find and bookmark photos, QuickTime movies, weather maps that describe weather trends.
- 12. 6. Conduct science experiments (cont’d) (4, 6) Set up an epal account and study weather trends around the world. Create a collaborative multimedia presentation of the findings.
- 13. Debate the effect of existing and emerging technologies on individuals, society, and the global community. (5, 6) Juggling technology in daily life
- 14. 9. Effect of technologies (cont’d) (5, 6) Take a poll of classmates, family members, community members. What are the top 3 technology devices used on a daily basis? Has technology made life easier or harder?
- 15. 9. Effect of technologies (cont’d) (5, 6) Discuss ethical considerations and the impact on society of new technologies. What jobs have been lost and what new jobs have been created?
Editor's Notes
- #6: Watch the video “Inside the White House: The Garden” with Michelle Obama at www.whitehouse.gov/. Research the history of vegetable gardening at the White House. Begin with Thomas Jefferson’s development of crop diversity and crop rotation techniques. Include the Victory Garden movement initiated by Eleanor Roosevelt and the vegetable garden developed by Michelle Obama in your study. Create an original poem or jingle on some aspect of vegetable gardening. In the ad, comment on the impact of vegetable gardening on a healthy dietary regime. The advertisement could be time specific, i.e., an ad about a vegetable that might have grown in Eleanor Roosevelt’s Victory Garden. Share the ads and an accompanying recipe with your classmates. Have a “Vegies Make Good Eats” day on the day of the ad previews. Extended assignment: each student prepares a recipe featuring the vegetable in their ad for their family; plant a vegetable garden at school; volunteer activity – plant a community vegetable garden.
- #8: Add a creative border, convert your document to a pdf file, and post on the class blog.
- #9: Conduct simultaneous weather studies with students around the world online through epals for a period of one month. Further sites to explore for graphics, sound or video clips, images: The Weather Channel (www.weather.com/), Accu Weather (www.acuweather.com/), and weather Online (www.weatheronline.com/). Also look at Dan’s Wild Wild Weather Page (a television meteorologist’s interactive site) at www.whnt19.com/kidwx/. A connection to digital weather instruments from Oregon Scientific Weather Stations and Atomic Clocks is located at http://www.weatherconnect.com/. Oregon Scientific makes: (1) Rain Gauage with Indoor/Outdoor thermometer for $39.99; and (2) Full Wireless Weather Station with wind sensor, rain gauage, temperature-humidity sensor, and two additional optional channels for $119.95. This weather station measures and displays: temperature (indoor/outdoor), humidity, dew point, wind speed, wind direction, wind chill, barometric pressure, daily/cumulative rainfall/precipitation, and UV index (optional addition).
- #14: Use GraphPower, Database, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Multimedia-authoring to collect and present data. Set up a discussion board (?) on Facebook.