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TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION FOR MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM USE
** A Standards-Based Approach **


 * Unit Title: Best Advice Project ||  ||   ||


 * Grade: 9 ||  || Subject(s): Freshman course: Research/Reading ||

The student will write a draft appropriate to the topic, audience, and purpose. The student engages in the writing process and writes to communicate ideas and experiences. The student develops and demonstrates creative writing. The student develops and demonstrates persuasive writing that is used for the purpose of influencing the reader. 1 Creativity and innovation 2 Communication and collaboration 3 Research and information fluency ||  ||  4 Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making 5 Digital citizenship 6 Technology operations and concepts ||
 * ** GOALS ** ||
 * Content Standards: **
 * **ISTE NETS-S **

The students will generate power point projects that contain advice that will benefit the freshmen class for the following years. The objectives that the students are working towards deal with persuasive writing, increasing skill with digital tools, increasing affect with regards to high school, ability to reflect on and articulate their experience in high school thus far and effective use of collaboration as they work together to generate problems to address with regard to their first year in high school.
 * Instructional objective(s): **
 * ** ACTION ** ||
 * Date ||  || Action ||   || Resources ||


 * Day1

Day 2

Day 3 – 8

Day 9 ||  || Introduce project to the students. Explain to them the relevance and importance of needing advice when a student first enters high school.

Have the students collaborate in groups of two. They need to generate several areas that they would have liked advice about when they were first entering high school.

The students will take their lists and start work on their power points. There is a rubric they are following which dictates what should be in each slide. They need to work on their introduction slide, the 5 areas of choice based on the collaboration and a conclusion slide.

The students will complete a project reflection journal. They will journal about what they have learned through the process of creating the power point for the upcoming freshmen class. ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Example of Power point

Pencils and paper

The students use powerpoint software

Classroom Wiki ||


 * MONITOR ||


 * Assessment:** The product is a power point. This will be graded using a rubric.

Power point projects are terrific for addressing the learning styles of several types of learners. The kinesthetic and visual learner’s needs are especially addressed.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Accommodations and extensions: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">There are some students that will need one on one accommodation. Many students have not created a power point slide show before and I will have to provide some scaffolding until they are ready to take over themselves.