Answering 3 Questions using TPACK

What is the content you'll be using in your lesson?

The content I will be using in my lesson is from the Utah State Core Standards for fourth grade. It is in Standard 5 Objective 2: Describe the common plants and animals found in Utah environments and how these organisms have adapted to the environment in which they live.

What is the pedagogy you'll be using and why is it a good fit with content?

The pedagody I will be using is to teach them thru letting them experiment with what animals and plants live in the different Utah environments. Then as a class we will talk about the different environments and what lives there. Then the students will work together to create a bubble chart with the different environments and what lives in each. I chose this pedagogy because many students learn in different ways and I wanted to make sure I covered a few of them while teaching so students had multiple opportunities to learn.

What is the technology you'll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?

The technology I chose was allowing the students to use Kidspiration to create concept maps, place animals and plants in different enivornments, and then write why certain animals belong in certain environments. This fit exactly with the content of the lesson of students learning about different plants and animals in the different environments in Utah. It also went along with my pedagogy of students working by themselves with pictures for those who are visual and also getting to work in group to use words and pictures to create a concept map or bubble chart.