Creative+EdTech

Creative Integration of Technology Tools
As a large group, we were given a lesson objective and summary, randomly assigned a classroom equipment scenario (we lucked out with the "Super Tech" model!), and 4 minutes to brainstorm creative ways to integrate technology into the lesson. As a group, we came up with **__119__ unique, AWESOME ideas!!**

**Objective:** Given live examples of three types of plants, the fourth grade student will be able to correctly compare and contrast physical characteristics of six plant structures (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds) with 100% accuracy.

**Lesson Summary:** The teacher presents a mini-lecture on the physical characteristics of plant structures. The lecture is accompanied by visual charts (hanging on the board) that define and illustrate characteristics of plant structures. Students take notes during the lecture using a note-taking guide. Next, the teacher models how to make observations of a sample plant and records the observations on a worksheet. The teacher demonstrates the process to compare and contrast the physical characteristics she has observed. The teacher divides the class into groups of four, giving each group three actual plant samples and copies of the worksheet to use as a graphic organizer to compare and contrast plant structures. The students work in groups to complete the worksheet. The teacher debriefs the activity with the whole class.

**“Super Tech” Classroom Equipment Scenario:**
 * 1-to-1 student computers (30)
 * Internet access (wifi)
 * Teacher laptop (school's)
 * SmartBoard
 * iClickers
 * Document camera
 * Color laser printer/scanner
 * Digital camera
 * Video camera
 * Headphones (class set)

**Creative Integration of Technology Tools for this Lesson/Scenario:**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Draw” a picture of a plant structures on art program
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A video camera can be used to record clips of students while they are working on comparing and contrasting plant structures, and then be made into a collage of clips.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Combine all the common information that students write on the plant on their computers and point out the less common notes
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a class wiki to share discoveries
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a photo blog to share outside of class
 * 6) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a plant website for students to access at home with samples of their digital creations for their parents to share
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a proposal for a community garden based on newly acquired plant knowledge
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a slide show comparing the pictures; add audio recordings of the student’s description/function of each plant structure
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create word document to write facts accompanied by photos
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Document everything on a data spreadsheet with the computer
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examine different views of plant structures or different examples of the same structure online
 * 12) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">find a cool website that highlights the concepts you want to teach and show it on smart board, or the students can use a web 2.0 site to learn the concepts
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find a video online about plant structures to show to the class.
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find audio/video clips from experts on the plant structures for students to listen/watch
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find other plants online and compare/contrast different types of plants, but similar structures (is root to root and flower to flower)
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go on a plant tour and take pictures of “the best” plant examples they find to use as examples in their self-created products (maybe the instructional video mentioned below)
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google search plants/origins/facts
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">have a cross section of a live plant and place it under the doc camera so all students can see while a volunteer points out the different parts
 * 19) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have a plant identification quiz using iClickers
 * 20) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have a Venn Diagram on the SmartBoard where the students can come up and compare and contrast plant structures. They can even stick the actual pictures of the structures on the projected Venn Diagram
 * 21) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have short videos that define and illustrate characteristics of plant structures
 * 22) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students create a clicker activity to learn about the different characteristics of each other’s plants
 * 23) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students create a mini-instructional video with what they’ve learned and share with another class-youtube videos
 * 24) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students create VoiceThread of pictures of plants and talk about different parts of them
 * 25) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students take pictures of various parts of plants and then print them out and mix them all up, and then have students sort out the pictures so that each plant has all the parts it needs
 * 26) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students upload the photos on to a word processing document and write about the plant characteristics.
 * 27) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students use laptops to take notes (practice typing)
 * 28) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have students video tape each other reciting and pointing to the different parts of a plant that they have popped up on their screen (like an interview)
 * 29) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead of writing students can use Fotobabble to produce a creative piece about the plant’s life
 * 30) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Keynote presentation of indigenous plants
 * 31) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magnifiy photos on photo editing software
 * 32) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make a mini assessment using SmartBoard and iClickers
 * 33) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make a mini-movie or infomercial about plant scientists
 * 34) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Make a stop motion film of a plant growing with iMovie (or equivalent)
 * 35) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Make a T-Chart on the computer to compare and contrast their information
 * 36) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Neat chat to talk about observations
 * 37) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Observe parts of plants from around the world as a class using the SmartBoard and the Internet.
 * 38) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post all graphic organizers on document camera to model further
 * 39) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">print off visual aids when describing plant structures
 * 40) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Print out colored posters of each of the plants that are being compared and use them to label.
 * 41) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Project pictures on document camera
 * 42) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Record a podcast to record their results
 * 43) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Record data on a spreadsheet
 * 44) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Set up a video camera to catch the growth cycle of a plant; make a movie and speed up the process
 * 45) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skype with a botanist or professional
 * 46) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SmartBoard projection of plant – students touch/identify parts
 * 47) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can choose any plant and create a diagram labeling the different parts of the plant and can then show their plant diagram under the document camera
 * 48) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can create a brochure of a place they would like to visit and include images of plants they might see and print them in color
 * 49) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can create a video of how the different parts of a plant develop
 * 50) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can design experiments relating to parts of a plant and share them via the Internet (skype, weToku, blogs, etc) with other classes
 * 51) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can record themselves on video about their observations
 * 52) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">students can take a tour and observe
 * 53) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can take pictures of the plant parts, put them in Fotobabble and voice the differences. Students can view other students Fototbabbles and document one similarity and one difference.
 * 54) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can upload images of their drawings of the plants into a slideshow.
 * 55) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can use camera to record observations while out in the wilderness instead of writing down on paper and pencil.
 * 56) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can use proscope to take a closer look at the plant samples.
 * 57) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students can use Vokis to orally explain what they learned
 * 58) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students could create educational videos on how to observe plants, or parts of a plant
 * 59) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">students could create videos describing their findings while playing the part of ‘scientist’
 * 60) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students could do their own research, instead of the teacher doing the mini-lecture.
 * 61) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students could have an online discussion in Edmodo
 * 62) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students could use video camera in their group to talk about the differences they find in the plants
 * 63) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students create a Glogster poster about their findings to present to the class and use the laser pointer and SmartBoard to interact with the SmartBoard presentation
 * 64) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students post notes, ideas, observations on a wiki for their group.
 * 65) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students record their group ideas on SmartBoard for the rest of the class to see.
 * 66) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students take notes or audio record on their computer
 * 67) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students take pictures of different parts of the plant with digital camera
 * 68) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students would be able to communicate with each other as soon as they are ready through a live chat, this could be in small groups or whole group.
 * 69) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">take pictures, print large color photos and create a bulletin board labeling the different parts
 * 70) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher can also use clickers to debrief with the students.
 * 71) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher can take the pictures that students made and turn it into a slide show for the students on the SmartBoard.
 * 72) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher can use clickers to ask questions about the characteristics of the plants, roots, stems, leaves and so on by using multiple choice.
 * 73) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher could bring up large photos to accompany her lecture using doc cam, SmartBoard, or powerpoint presentation.
 * 74) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher could use random draw generator to separate the class into groups of 4.
 * 75) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher could use the document camera to show the different plants to the students
 * 76) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The document camera can be used to show student work
 * 77) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The mini lesson can be supplemented by a video tutorial.
 * 78) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The notes being taken by the students could be done so on computers.
 * 79) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The notetaking can happen on the SMART board using the teacher’s computer (with a prepared lesson notebook file) and can be done as a whole class with individuals and small groups using the board- then print.
 * 80) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Smithsonian has an app that allows you to take a photo of a plant and send it to them for identification- Have students use the resource to extend to plants that they don’t know.
 * 81) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can find additional information about their plant samples on the Internet
 * 82) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can look up how the different parts of a plant look on different plants and create a presentation
 * 83) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can print off pictures and make posters and present them to the class
 * 84) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can share their findings on the SmartBoard once they are done
 * 85) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can use the headphones to plug in and listen to other students observations
 * 86) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can use the Internet to research more about the plants.
 * 87) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can use the Word document to describe the plants integrating with a writing activity.
 * 88) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can video tape the plants and voice over their comparisons to present to the class.
 * 89) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students can work with students from other schools/countries and use social networking sites to share ideas and discoveries.
 * 90) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students could look up different types of plants at their school on the internet; the students can take pictures of those plants and upload them to their very own computers; they came make a movie about their plants that they found
 * 91) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students could make a Venn diagram on the computer
 * 92) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students could record their observations on a worksheet on the computer
 * 93) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students could use their pictures on the SmartBoard to show other students what they found different about the plants
 * 94) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher can use his/her laptop to introduce the unit; show a video using laptop and projector
 * 95) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher can use the SmartBoard to demonstrate what she wants out of the lesson
 * 96) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The teacher could have made her modeling beforehand for the students to watch, and rewatch if needed.
 * 97) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The visual charts could be on a SmartBoard
 * 98) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are pictures available online of these plants that may be different from those used in class. Good for the students to see some variety.
 * 99) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">They can listen to plant scientists on the computer with their headphones
 * 100) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They can record a dance.
 * 101) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tour of forest and plants. Research about foliage through websites and google search. Students can do a Google search story and participate in group activities that will allow them to get a better understanding of the content and material.
 * 102) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use a plant simulation program (I know they have one about conditions for growing plants) to help students visualize/dissect all of the structures (especially if extending into plant cells). Also, if extending to plant cells – use a proscope to get close.
 * 103) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use a story-making program and kids can record narration describing differences and similarities.
 * 104) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use Bubble.us to create a diagram to compare and contrast.
 * 105) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use computers to record their data
 * 106) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use headphones to listen to different books or other things that may talk about the plants
 * 107) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use Internet to look up the different plants
 * 108) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use Jing to take snapshots of online picture and information
 * 109) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use microscopes to dig deep into the cellular makeup of the plants
 * 110) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use the CPS clickers to have students respond to comprehension questions throughout the lesson instead of a worksheet. This way the teacher has real-time data on what the students are learning and can adjust during the lesson.
 * 111) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use the smart board and a plant growing simulator to simulate a plant growing and what it needs to be most efficient.
 * 112) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use the SmartBoard for vocabulary games that deal with plant words such as photosynthesis and sunlight, etc
 * 113) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use the teacher laptop to create a template of a chart to organize what students need to learn.
 * 114) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using the smart board create interactive model of each type of plant that includes actual student images and audio recordings showing that the students under…..
 * 115) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Utilize Explore Learning’s Gizmos to learn more about plant structures
 * 116) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">watch “magic school bus” on plants
 * 117) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WebQuests on plans
 * 118) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">wiki – field guide
 * 119) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">you can use i-clickers with important concept questions as a quick way to assess student understanding of your mini-lesson before they start