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I have looked at your request for assistance for planning your unit, and this is what I have come up with. I look forward to being able to collaborate with you, and hope this is a good start. Unit Plan for Biography Overall objectives: Students will use jing to capture images relating to their person. Students will use a variety of media to research their person. Students will use voice thread to present their findings. Students will use note taking and questioning skills. Day 1 The LMS will show a voice thread created about a person of interest that she created, to motivate the students. The voicethread will include pictures, and voice explaining why this person was picked and their accomplishments. Students will discuss and create a chart listing names of people who they would like to research. The students will share their charts with each group. Students will then select a person to research, either from the chart or not, and will write down that persons’ name on the organizer given to them. The students will be using this organizer to record their findings, notes and important websites. The students will begin their research by using texts provided by the librarian. Students will begin recording important details about their person on their organizer. Day 2 The students will begin keeping a folder with their name on it on the desktop of the computer, where they can hold pictures or photos or documents of interest. The students will begin researching their person using sites that are pre-selected by the LMS teacher. They will be recording their findings or information on their organizer. Day 3 Students will be using the information that they have found so far to think of pictures they would like to search and showcase. These will be stored in their folders on the desktop. Students can also continue researching using a variety of medias. Day 4 The students will take the information they have found and write a paragraph about their person of interest. This paragraph will be edited and revised by themselves, and then a peer, and then the teacher. The students will also make final decisions on the pictures they will be including, and weed out the pictures they do not want. Students will be selecting 3 pictures to include. Day 5 The LMS will model how to create a simple voice thread using the pictures that have been saved. The students will be shown how to add voice to the slide. This speaking will be from the paragraph they wrote about the person of interest. Day 6 The students will share their voice threads with each other, and will provide feedback for each other using a standard rubric. The students will also be graded according to this rubric. Each student will also write about what they enjoyed from the project, and what challenges they faced during the project. This will be recorded on the same graphic organizer they used during the research process.

lesson plan Content Area: Social Studies Lesson Topic: Biographies Grade Level: 4th I will show the students a voicethread about the person I researched. I will also have a poster picture of the person I researched hanging on the wall. The students will use a variety of medias to research a person of interest. The students will be able to create a voicethread using pictures and voice to present their person of interest. The students will be able to take notes and record their findings and research in a journal. The students will be helping me to create a voicethread. I will show the students my notes that I took along the way, which I will have written on a large chart paper for all to see. I will then turn the notes into a paragraph summary about my person, which I will write on the chart as I think aloud what I am writing. Then, I will show students how I have saved pictures about my person on the desktop a folder with my name on it. I will discard all but 4 pictures. This will be done using the smart board so the students can all see what is happening. I will then go into voicethread and model for students The students will work with me to create a voicethread using the pictures I have saved and the paragraph I have written. Using the smartboard so all students can see, I will show them how to insert the pictures. Students will dictate to me the order of the pictures. The students will then read the paragraph I have written to insert into the slideshow. We will then watch the slideshow we created together, discussing any problems we had, questions we have, or any comments they have. The students will each write up the steps that we took to save pictures, insert pictures and create the voicethread movie. The students will be creating their own voicethread slideshow about their person they researched, including pictures and voice recording.
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