Smart Cookie Party!

Objective: To let parents/family know about the end of year party where the kids will show all that they have learned from 1st grade.

Standard Objective 5: Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

• Knowing how to make a flyer was really helpful! I am pretty sure that I will use this as time goes on. Not just for education but this tool can be used for almost any activity, event, etc. This is a great way to let parents and the students know about what is going on in class and these flyers can be used in many different ways in the classroom. 
• I think letting first graders try and make a flyer would be kind of complicated for them. There are a lot of steps and I could see many ways where they would get frustrated and quit. When they get older and can do more things on their own then I think this would be a great tool for them to get familiar with. 
• I am planning on using this flyer to give to each of the child's parents. It tells them all of the details of what we will be doing, important times, when it is, and what it is we are trying to accomplish with it. 

Smart Cookie Flyer

Phases of the Moon

Objective: The students will learn the different phases of the moon, will be able to tell the differences, and will know which part of the moon we see on earth.

Standard Objective 8: Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem-solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.

• This was a really fun tool to learn and I am pretty sure I will use this one as I continue my education degree. It has so many options, different styles, and different ways you could use it to teach your students. I will for sure keep this one in mind.
• As the students grow older I think they could for sure use this tool for presentation projects or just showing information about a topic. It would create an easy assignment for me and it would help the students to be creative. It also helps that it is free. I'm not sure the younger kids would be able to use it because they are still learning important skills that they need to know before this tool can become useful to them. 
• I'm not entirely sure when I would use this because I feel that it could go anywhere. It could go at the beginning when introducing the topic, become a review as you continue to talk about it or it could be used at the end to wrap it up and quiz them to see how much they have learned. Right now, I am thinking to use it to introduce them to the topic. It is simple and tells them what each thing is and adds a fun way to learn something new. 

Phases of the Moon

All about Martin Luther King Jr.

Objective: Students will know who Martin Luther King Jr. is and why we celebrate this day every year and why he is important.

Standard Objective 5: Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 

• This tool was very good to learn but it takes a lot of time to create something using this tool. I think this has a good purpose for certain topics, like showing a history of an event, person, animal, etc. It has some good uses but it is only effective if used in the proper setting. 
• I think the kids would like learning from this because it is a different type of learning style. It would be a good thing to mix up in the schedule so that they don't get bored and stop paying attention. I also think this tool needs to be short and sweet because even a timeline can go on forever and students will stop paying attention.
• I was planning on using this tool to introduce to them who Martin Luther King Jr. was and what he did that changed everything. Going from there it would be good to give them a paper and have them write down a couple of facts about him. Then once that is done, I think drawing him and making a book out of the facts they found of him would really help the kids to understand how important he was and what he did for many people. 

Martin Luther King Jr.

Weather & Seasons

Objective: Students will be able to tell what the different seasons are and what weather fits into each season.

Educational Technology Standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom.

• This tool was fun to learn how to use because it is a lot like a power point but it has some different features and designs to it. I can see me using this tool as time goes on but not all the time or it will get boring and the kids will loose interest in what I am trying to teach them. 
• I think the students would like to use this as a part of their learning but it would need to be for small amounts of time. There is only so long that a child can sit still and look at a slide show and pay attention. It will be best used in fun ways to capture and keep their attention for a little bit. 
• I am using this power point to introduce the topic of weather and the seasons. It could also be modified to be a quiz or a review over the topic. It is a good way to get the kids into the topic and have some interaction as they start into any new topic that they have heard before but haven't gone deep into. I think it is a nice way to get kids into the technology that is around them and it is a pretty simple tool that they could learn how to use it. 

Weather & Seasons

All about punctuation!

Objective: Students will learn how to end a sentence correctly using the correct punctuation. 

Standard Technology Standard 5: Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, presentation, web tools, digital cameras, scanners) for individual and collaborative writing, communication, and publishing activities to create knowledge products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 

• I loved getting to use this new tool! It was so much fun creating a quiz and I know for sure that I will be using this tool very often. It will help a lot with grading and seeing how well concepts are being understood among the students.  
• I think the students will really come to love these little quizzes or homework assignments. We are moving into a teaching world that is going to be using technology all the time and really no pen and paper will be used. This will become a great way to get students used to using technology in a good way and it will help further their education in many ways.
• I haven't decided which way I will use this quiz. I think it is a good enough quiz to be taken before or after teaching the concept. It can be a good review after you have taught the subject or it can be used to see where the students stand with their punctuation. Anyway, I think it is a great way to have the students go online and use the technology they are around every second of their lives. 

Do you know how to end a sentence?

School vs. Neighborhood

Objective: Students will learn the different people that work in the world around them and will be able to know who goes where. 

Education Technology Standard 7: Use telecommunications and on-line resources (e.g., email, online discussions, web environments) to participate in collaborative problem-solving activities to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 

• Using Google Docs has been a great tool to get familiar with. It allows you to do many things that are similar to a word program but it is useful that it automatically saves for you. This way if you have lots of things on your mind and forget to save there is no problem. I think this tool will become the most used tool because of how convenient it is and how it connects to your email. It just makes everything easy and accessible.
• I think as the world progresses and technology is put more into school this is a tool that many kids will learn to use. I think it is helpful for the older kids but not the younger kids. They are still learning to write their words and can't type very fast or at all. So I don't think the kids will need to use this tool just yet. More is taken out when they can see what they are writing and how each letter is formed. 
• Knowing who people are around them is super important and it allows the students to connect the dots in their minds of the people they see. To make sure that they fully understand, I will go through who works at our school with their names and what jobs they see outside of school. Afterwards, I will give them this worksheet and from this they will show me what they know and where each person fits in the world. If this doesn't work, I will make a similar worksheet or try to help them understand in a different way.

School vs. Neighborhood

Germs Book

This is a great book explaining how a boy gets sick and his friend brings over a lot of gifts for him. In the back of this book it is explains how we spread germs and what we can do to prevent it. 

In the back it also shows how to make 'Get Well Books'.