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Integration Plan

Barbara Creech Grade: Preschool

__Earthworms and our environment__

I plan to create a Science Unit on the Earthworms. I intend to include hands-on activities involving the worms as well as incorporating technology integration. To do this I will create a Wikispace for my class to present what they have learned about earthworms. This will include digital pictures and voice threads to allow the students to share what they have learned with family, community members, and hopefully even another Preschool classroom through a collaboration project. This project will include cooperative learning with classmates and non-linquistic representation through drawings. We will use technology for research as well as for a collaboration tool. Students will be exposed and introduced to the wealth of information available at our fingertips through the use of the internet. They will also be introduced to digital citizenship which will be a great benefit as they grow older and use online resources more. All of these things will help me meet the goal I set at the beginning of the course. I wanted to enhance our Science curriculum through the use of technology, and I believe I will have done just that when I use this integration plan.

3.1a Biological Sciences - Living and Non-Living Organisms 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4,8 Environment and Ecology ||  || Students will identify living organisms. Students will learn about renewable and nonrenewable resources, agriculture and how it affects society and humans in relation to the environment ||  ||   ||   || Effective Communication Inventive Thinking High Productivity
 * //Standards: PA // || Early Learning Standards: Scientific Thinking and Technology:
 * //Standards: 21st Century // || Digital-Age Literacy

[] ||  || At the preschool level I will be introducing students to the concept of digital -age literacy. There will be an introduction to digital-age visual literacy as well throught the use of the digital camera and uploading pictures to our class wikispace. They will use effective communication through the use of digital recordings and voice threads that will allow them to describe their part of the project verbally. They will use inventive thinking as we do the Earthworm project. ||  ||   ||   || 1. Creativity and Innovation Students will use existing knowledge about earthworms and apply it to generate new ideas about the benefits of earthworms in our environment. They will create original works by creating a picture and then verbally (voice thread) explain what they know and have learned about the worms. 2. Communication and Collaboration They will use our class wiki to display their individual part of the collaboration project to share what they have learned with our partner pre-k counts class. We'll use digital pictures and digital recordings of voice threads to enhance this communication. 3. Research and Information Fluency With preschoolers this will have to be done with my help in small groups, but it will be an introduction to the research process. Together we will use digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. 4. Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making As a group we will begin to use critical thinking skills to determine the path of our project and what we want to learn about through mind maps and brainstorming. 5. Digital Citizenship The students will be introduced to this concept as well. I will demonstrate digital citizenship skills througout the project. ||  ||   ||   || information about earthworms. We will then weed through the results of our investigating and choose only the information that we determine is relevant to our original mind map. The mind map will be our outline for what we want to learn about earthworms. We can then bookmark the websites we like best and add them to our class wiki. ||  ||   ||   || learned through a visual drawing, digital recording, digital pictures of our earthworms, our earthworm models we create, and digital photos of the students as they work on the project. ||  ||   ||   || For example we will use the interactive smartboard to record our data that we collect about the earthworms. We will find websites that the children can interact with on the internet about our topic.
 * //Standards: NETS // || NETS addressed:1 a-d, 2 a,c, 3 a-d, 4 a-d, 5a ||  || []
 * //Effective use of research tools // || We will use internet websites like those listed in the Online Portfolio Bibliography and bookmarks page. ||   || In small groups we will research through the use of the internet for any pertinent
 * //Effective use of research tools // || We will use internet websites like those listed in the Online Portfolio Bibliography and bookmarks page. ||   || In small groups we will research through the use of the internet for any pertinent
 * //Types of Communication // || We will use our class wikispace to communicate with other students, our families and the community about our class project. ||   || Students will each ( with the help of an adult) post their desription of all they have
 * //Potential for student engagement // || The students will be involved in hands-on activities as well as through the use of technology.

. ||  || Students should be engaged in every aspect of the project from digging up the worms to the mind map we create and also through the final display of all we have learned. ||  ||   ||   || We will use digital recordings and voice thread to allow the children to express what they have learned. ||  || . The children be introduced to these web 2.0 tools and even though they may not be able to use them on there own, we will  use them in a small group and at least let them experience them. At the preschool level almost everything taught is an introduction or <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">foundation for learning that will take place as they proceed through  <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">their elementary, middle school, and high school education. ||  ||   ||   || in a variety of ways. They can use art center supplies to create drawings of worms, 3-d modles of worms, etc. They will be given hands-on activities to do with real earthworms. They will use technology tools to research, create and portray all they learn through this project. ||  ||   ||   || 2.Cooperative learning 3.Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizers ||   || We'll introduce the topic of: “Earthworms” and let students explore with them in the Discovery Center. We’ll create a Web Map about earthworms and what we will be learning abour them based on questions I will ask. The answers the children provide will allow us to determine prior knowledge and decide, as a clas, how we can build on that knowledge and what new things we can learn about earthworms. We can later share with others through the use of a graphic organizer which will be downloaded to our class wikispace. We will identify similaritied/differences of the earthworms. In small cooperative learning groups we will use the internet to research about earthworms. We also use these small groups to create diagrams about what they have learned and add voice threads to these when we post them to our class wiki. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Creative use of a web 2.0 tool // || We will use our class wikispace to post and share all we are learning throughout the project. We will use the internet for research and to download/upload information to our wiki. The digital camera will be a valuable tool in our project
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Differentiated instruction // || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">There will be many learning opportunities provided through the project which will allow everyone the chance to learn and participate through their preferred learning style. ||   || Students will be able to express everything they are learning in
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Instructional strategies // || 1. Identifying similarities and differences