Transcript Doing It Differently in the Media Center

Technology
Made to Order
Differentiated Strategies Using Technology
www.frco.k12.va.us
Instructional Resource Teachers
Jami Wasilewski
[email protected]
Slone Lang
[email protected]
Franklin County Public Schools
Invitation to Lunch
Choosing a Restaurant
 Provide a way to use computers in class
more effectively
 Offer teachers opportunities to meet
students’ individual needs
 Allow multiple projects to be in progress
Learning Menus
Adapted from Susan
Winebrenner’s extension
menus
Teaching Gifted Kids in the
Regular Classroom
 Promote differentiation
 Provide
 Independent activities
 Extensions and
enrichment of curriculum
 Opportunities for student
choice
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Appetizer
Early Learning Menus
 Writing activities using paper and pencil
 Word processing
 Microsoft Word
 Activities used previously in classroom
 Venn diagram
 Journal entries
 Websites
 Used in computer lab and by teacher
Learning Menu for
Patricia Polacco Book
Tic—Tac—Toe
Email Samples
Dear Daddy,
I read a Patricia Polacco book called Uncle
Vova’s Tree today. I liked it because it talked
about Christmas. I can’t wait for Christmas
to get here. I also liked it because it had
good pictures and good describing words
about what was going on…One thing I
would like to change about it is that the
characters’ names would be different.
Ethan
Dear Ian Hodges,
This is your big brother in third grade and you
are my favorite brother. You also make me
happy. I read a book called The Bee Tree and
I liked the part when they catch the bees…In
the story they catch three bees, but I would
change the three bees to seven bees.
Love,
Big Brother
P.S. I also liked it when the bee led them to
the tree.
Main Course
Current Learning Menus
 More technology
 Kidspiration 2, PowerPoint
 Internet
 Web quests
 ReadWriteThink
 Digital cameras and camcorders
 Wider range of difficulty
 Good for individuals and/or whole class
Customer Service
ITRTs and
Instructional Resource Teachers (IRTs)
Model
technology
included on
learning
menus
Work with
lab managers
to assist
teachers
and students
Provide
technology
assistance
cards
Work with
students
Literacy Menu for Charlotte’s Web
1. Electronic Diary
2. Construct a Triorama
3. Teachnology Venn Diagram
Pretend you are Charlotte. Using
Microsoft Word, write two diary
Entries about events in the story
that explain Charlotte’s thoughts
and feelings. Include things
Charlotte liked and did not like.
Write a complete paragraph for
each entry.
Construct a model of a scene
from the story. Include the
setting, at least one character,
and one important symbol from
the story.
Fill in the Venn diagram template
comparing and contrasting the
two different settings (the farm
and the fair). Include at least three
items in each section. Use the
Teachnology Venn diagram
tool to complete this menu choice.
4. Write a Song
Free Choice
Write a song that shares the
feelings and thoughts of a
character from Charlotte’s Web.
Be prepared to share the song with
the class.
6. Spider Web Fact and Fiction
Draw a spider web that fills the page.
Create 10 flies to place on the web.
Five flies should tell a fact from the
story about spiders; five flies should
tell fantasy details about spiders that
are in the book. Use complete
sentences.
7. Newspaper Article
8. Alphabet PowerPoint
9. Create a Sequence of Pictures
Visit http://www.readwritethink.org
Click on the Printing Press link.
Pretend you are a news reporter.
Write an article detailing what
happens when Mr. Zuckerman
finds words in the web.
Create a PowerPoint
presentation containing 26
slides. Write a letter from the
alphabet in the corner of each
slide. Type an important word
from Charlotte’s Web that
represents each letter. Include a
graphic to go along with the
word.
Choose three scenes in the book and
draw a picture for each scene. Each
picture should have a one sentence
summary of the scene that you
illustrate. Share your pictures in the
order they happened in the book.
My Side of the Mountain
3. Research Catskill Mountains
Do some research on the Catskill
Mountains. Include interesting facts:
location, size, part of what mountain
chain, etc. Present your findings in a
PowerPoint presentation.
By: Brittany Caya
• A mountain chain found in the
southeastern New York state
• In the counties of Delaware, Greene,
Otsego, Schocharie, Sullivan, and Ulster
• The Catskills are often nicknamed
“America’s first wilderness”
• Why do you think the Catskills are
nicknamed “ America’s first Wilderness”?
• The Catskill mountains take up 300,000
acres of public forest preserve.
• The mountains also provide a portion of
New York’s drinking water supply.
Think Dots Strategy
Websites to Support
Think Dot Options
http://www.teachnology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/doodle/index.html
http://www.m-w.com
Learning Menu for Fractions
Math SOLs 3.5, 3.6, and 3.11
Naming Fractions
3.5 a
-http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
-click on the cell labeled 3 – 5
-scroll down to Fractions - Visualizing
Naming Fractions
3.5 b
-http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
-click on the cell labeled 3 – 5
-scroll down to Fractions - Naming
Comparing Fractions
3.5 b, 3.6
Create six problems that compare two fractions.
-open Kidspiration
-click on Picture
-type Comparing Fractions in main idea circle
-scroll through pictures until + Math Tools
-use fraction toolschange colors to create
your fractions
Comparing Fractions
3.5 b, 3.6
Locate fractions in the classroom and list them.
Create one dozen (twelve) equations to be
compared; only three may be equal.
-open Microscoft PowerPoint
-create title slide
-click on InsertNew Slide
-type one equation on slide
-type answer on next slide
Learning Menu for
Investigating Environments
Science SOL 3.6
Water-related Environments
Create a chart that describes water-related
environments. Include examples of plants and
animals that live in each environment.
Brochure
Choose an environment. Pretend you own a
campground in that environment. Design a
brochure to persuade people to stay at your
campground.
Habitats
Complete the Habitats graphic organizer in
Kidspiration Change one of the dry-land
environments to river or ocean.
Population vs. Community
Use pictures and words to describe population
and community.
Learning Menu for Investigating Environments
Science SOL 3.6
Technology Assistance Card (TAC)
Water-related Environments
tDry-land Environments
Habitats
-open Word
-click on Table
-click on InsertTable
-Number of columns: 2
-Number of rows: 2
-click OK
-begin typing
(boxes will expand as you
work)
-open Kidspiration
-click on Picture
-type title in main idea circle
(can change to box)
-insert two text boxes
(one for plants and one for
animals)
-follow directions on learning
menu
-open Kidspiration
-click on Science
-scroll down to Habitats
-double-click to open activity
-follow directions on learning
menu
Assessment
 Rubrics
 http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
 County writing rubric
 Checklists
Dessert
 Teachers
 Students are on
task
 Computers used more
effectively
 Technology and core
area SOLs are met
 Students
 Have choices
 Showcase products
 Ownership in
learning
 More proficient with
technology
Check, Please!
Tip with Technology
• http://district.ausd.net/docs/extension_menus.ppt
PowerPoint on extension menus
• http://www.lbusd.k12.ca.us/curriculum/GATE/emenu.htm
has a list of menus
• http://susanwinebrenner.com/Handouts.htm
has two menus