Lesson+Ideas

Lesson Ideas

===[|Podcast Lesson Plan Ideas]===

Lesson Title: Contents of My Backpack Type of Web 2.0 Tool: Podcast SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson: Students will be able to: • use classroom vocabulary to tell each other what to pack in a backpack. • hear the word and know the meaning. • say the word correctly. • tell each other which school supplies are needed for particular subjects. Brief Description of Overall Lesson: The use of the podcast will be as part of a homework assignment for reinforcement of vocabulary learned in class. During class, the teacher will introduce the vocabulary by holding up individual items and having the class repeat after her. The teacher will ask simple questions about the item at hand. Ex: Es un libro? Es grande? Es un lápiz o bolígrafo? De que color es el libro? Students are then paired with backpacks and supplies. One person starts with "Para la clase de espanol, necesitas..." and tells their partner 3 or 4 items. The other partner finds the pictures of those items and puts them in his/her backpack. A podcast of the same dialogue will be made available (either on the teacher’s blog or on blackboard) and students will be assigned as homework listening to the podcast in order to reinforce what they learned during class. Lesson Title: The News Type of Web 2.0 Tool: podcasts SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson: Students will be able to: • use the target language to describe local and world events • use digital media to record a newscast • listen to recorded newscast and show comprehension by discussing the topic afterward

Brief Description of Overall Lesson: On a weekly basis small groups of students will have the regular responsibility (on a rotating basis) of creating a three minute podcast describing highlights of the news of their choice for Spanish IV class. The groups of students will be able to choose their news, such as news within the high school, local news or world news. Once a week the podcast will be played for the class and students will be paired for discussion of the topics on the news podcast. The teacher will assess students by listening to their discussions.

=**Image Blog Lesson Plan Ideas:**=

Lesson Title 1: Images of Day of the Dead Type of Web 2.0 Tool: Image Blog SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson: • Students will recognize unique cultural attributes of the Latino celebration of the Day of the Dead. • Students will compare images of Day of the Dead with images of death in the United States. • Students will create a presentation of annotated images of Day of the Dead from images on Flickr.

Brief Description of Overall Lesson: The students will have access to my Flickr account where I have set up a bank of images of Day of the Dead which they can browse through and choose images for their presentation. The class has already been studying the Day of the Dead and its history in Latin America. Today students will synthesize what they have learned. Students are to either do a PowerPoint presentation, Photo Story or, if they so choose they can do a poster board presentation of images. Students must have a minimum of five images from my Day of the Dead image bank. Then students must use Flickr to research photographs of funerals and death OR they may do the comparison of Day of the Dead with the Halloween holiday, whichever they prefer (these images will have to be carefully chosen and monitored for appropriateness by the teacher). Students will then create a narrated image filled comparison of how people in the United States tend to view death and how differently death is celebrated in some Latin American countries. Please see my Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/photos/senoraramirez/tags/dia/. Lesson 2 Title: Where in the World Type of Web 2.0 Tool: Image Blog SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson: • Students will relate a geographical location with an image. • Students will demonstrate an understanding of the geographical location and the image by writing a factual depiction of it in the target language. • Students will use multimedia in order to research in the target language. Brief Description of Overall Lesson: Each student will have a laptop available to use from the mobile lab at school during class. The teacher will lead the students to Google Maps and will show an example of a location that we have studied in class. See the link below to San Jose, San Jose, Costa Rica for an example (there will be a list of locations studied for a substitute teacher). Students will be assigned membership in groups of three. Each group of three will work on a brochure in the target language of a place that is pictured on the map in one of the Spanish speaking countries studied. The brochure must be at least three pages (bi-fold or tri-fold, including at least three photographs of the location and a narrative of interesting facts (from several sentences to a paragraph per page of the brochure- bullet point would be fine) about the spot and why one would want to visit there. For example, in San Jose the students could choose to write about the Theatro Nacional- a famous historical site in San Jose, since it is on the map and there is at least one picture of it. The students can research other websites along with Flickr in order to locate more photographs of the location. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&sll=9.933333,-84.083333&sspn=0.044893,0.098877&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Jos%C3%A9,+San+Jose,+Costa+Rica&layer=x&g=San+Jos%C3%A9,+San+Jose,+Costa+Rica&ll=9.933333,-84.083333&spn=0.044893,0.098877&z=14 It seems to me that these lessons are doable, if not with some tweaking. Flickr is a new tool in my teaching toolbox!

===[|Ideas for Lessons Utilizing a Wiki]===

**Lesson Title:** Spanish Speaking Countries

**Type of Web 2.0 Tool:** Wiki

**SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson:**

As a result of the lesson students will:


 * 1) Demonstrate knowledge of culture of a Spanish speaking country.


 * 1) Produce a presentation in the target language on culture, products and practices of Spanish speaking country.

> **Brief Description of Overall Lesson:** Students will each be assigned to research a Spanish speaking country. They must each prepare a PowerPoint presentation on the country which they are assigned in the target language. The presentation must include geographical information (i.e. where is the country located); historical information with regard to the government, a slide on an interesting cultural fact, a slide on an economic issue; a slide on education and a slide about typical food in any region of the country that the student chooses (or many regions if they so choose). The students can use their book, the internet and any library resource. The students will post their PowerPoint presentations to the wiki. Each student will also post questions about their presentation to be answered by their classmates. All class members will be responsible to post discussion material with regard to five PowerPoint presentations, answering the questions posted by the other students. This is to be used as a collaborative class study guide for the summative test at the end of the year. **Lesson Title:** Wikipedia Entry on Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * 1) Differentiate between the culture of that country and the United States.

**Type of Web 2.0 Tool:** Wiki


 * SOL and Secondary Objectives Related to the Lesson:**

As a result of the lesson students will:


 * 1) Collaborate in order to write a factual representation of a Wikipedia entry on Buenos Aires, Argentina.


 * 1) Demonstrate an ability to research Buenos Aires.

> **Brief Description of Overall Lesson:** Students will research Buenos Aires and write in Spanish a Wikipedia entry (as if it were for publication) about Buenos Aires, its history and government, art & culture, geography and economic situation. Groups of students will be assigned to each subtopic. They will be responsible for writing that subtopic and posting it to the page on the wiki. Each individual member of each group must edit and comment on each other subgroups entry in order to perfect it all a whole. The individuals will be graded with regard to their individual comments and edits as well as to their subgroup cooperation. The project will be graded as a whole class (therefore, making all group members interdependent).
 * 1) Produce an accurate article on Buenos Aires which includes in-depth information on the subject.