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.

Quiz Questions for IP and T 301

1. A child is learning a new behavior and they are reinforced for every correct response. What type of schedule is this.
A. ratio schedule
B. continuous reinforcement schedule
C. interval schedule
D. intermittent reinforcement schedule

2. If a teacher blows a whistle right before recess is to end and to remind the students to walk to line, the teacher just provided a ____ for the students?
A. prompt
B. stimulus control
C. cue
D. extinction

3. When a teacher deals effectively with a rul breaker, the iedea of breaking this rule may be inhibited for the other students watching this. This is an example of?
A. ripple effect
B. modeling
C. self-management
D. self-efficacy

Answers 1:B 2:C 3:A

Tech Savvy Teacher

Tech Savvy Teacher

An effective teacher knows how to use the resources surrounding him or her. Technology is one of the greatest tools a teacher can use as it is constantly growing providing new opportunities. It is a way to reach all students in new and creative ways and provides hands on experiences to help master the subject. An example of this technology is using Kidspiration. We chose 4th grade 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.
Our first step in this process was to identify common plants and animals found in different habitats in Utah. These habitats were wetlands, forests, and deserts. We use an activity on Kidspiration where students selected animals and plants and had to put them in the correlating habitat. This allowed them to brainstorm different possible environments familiar animals live in. Then next task was to create their own web of plants and animals found in the three habitatsin Utah.

After completing the brainstorm activity of the different characteristics. The teacher does a mini lesson where she or he talks about the different habitats and what lives in each. To assess the students learning we have them go back to the Kidspiration and have them write specific animals characteristics that allow particular plants and animals to live in specific environments.This technology helped students predict and classify different plants and animals into specific environments found in Utah. Kidspiration allowed students to participate using their hands and acts as a visual representation of what they are studying.

Angie Jack, Christina Murray, and Alesha Abrahamson

This is a picture of the habitat where children added different plants to each habitat.

This is the picture of children adding different animals to each habitat.

Students then create a bubble chart with the different habitats found in Utah.

Then the children put different animals, plants, and types of weather that go with each habitat.  They find pictures of each to put with the different habitats.

The assessment for this activity is having the children write why certain animals belong in specific habitats.  For example a duck can live in the wet lands because they have webbed feet.