Facilitation+and+Showcase

Essential Questions: How can technology be used most effectively to support and assess student learning? How can I facilitate an effective showcase and provide constructive feedback. Use the Electronic Portfolio template to create an introduction to your unit project and link the documents in your unit portfolio: Unit Plan, Student Sample, and Rubric.

Use the Project Characteristics Checklist (handout) to self-assess and reflect on your unit project. Which project characteristic would you like to strengthen in your project if time permitted?

Feedback Form: Something I learned: Something I liked: A question I have: A suggestion I have:

Web 2.0 Literature Circles Students will participate in an online literature circle using litcirclewiki.wikispaces.com In small groups students will read a common novel, participate in an online discussion, and as a group collaborate on a wiki page to present information on their novel to the rest of the class. Other supporting activities will include a pre-assessment survey gauging student reading likes and dislikes including favorite novels and book comparison, character comparison, and opinion statement concept maps. The culminating activity will be the recording of a book review podcast on a book of their own choice. ||  || This unit is a piece of the curriculum that I have themed evolution. Upon completion of this unit students will understand what relationship exists between mutations and evolution. They will also understand what other factors contribute to the modification of organisms over time. Students will see that mutation though often a negative occurrence, it is also a mechanism of change. Students will have an opportunity to explore arguments against the benefits of mutation as well as have enough information to form their own opinion. Students will also learn some of the negative results of mutation as well. ||  || Honors civics will create a guide to the presidential election. Major events, the election process, who is in the lead, quotes and goofsUS map of where the candidates are today and why, etc. ||   || In this project student will use matrix algebra (scalar multiplication, matrix addition and subtraction, and matrix multiplication) to investigate geometric transformations of polygons in the coordinate plane. As a final product, students will create a frame-by-frame animation of a simple geometric figure by writing programming code in a TI graphing calculator. ||  ||
 * **Project Descriptions** ||  ||
 * The Mechanisms of Evolution
 * Election 2008
 * Matrix Reloaded (Geometry 9th)
 * Harlem Renaissance

Key activities will include constructing a portfolio, collaborating with peers, researching artists of the time period, and comparing artists of today to those of the Harlem Renaissance. Topics will include the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on African Americans and society as a whole; prominent figures of the period; the impact of today’s artistic movement on our society & culture. Products from students will include a Harlem Renaissance portfolio, poetry writing & reading, reflection blog, and presentation of an excerpt from a play, poem, or work of fiction from the Harlem Renaissance. ||  || Students will read and annotate short nonfiction texts. They will blog their reflections to the articles. They will complete a summary template which asks for key quotes, summary notes and analysis. They will write a 5-7 sentence summary. They will eventually include parenthetical documentation and MLA citation. ||  ||
 * Reader Response Blog - 9th grade English