My+Ideal+Lesson+Plan

**Goal:** Students will demonstrate an understanding of technological advances over the past 50 years. Students will apply current knowledge of technology to predict the technology of the future. Students will construct an online poster to illustrate the ideas of future technology.
 * Technology: Yesterday and Today **

**Lesson:** This lesson is for 5th grade students, and they will be learning about advances in technology. First, the students will learn about the history of technology. This will start with technology from the 1950’s. Students will get to experiment hands-on with examples of different types of technology from the past. They will read the case study “A Day in the Life” from a student in 1949.

Next, the students will learn about the technology we currently have. They will get to use current technology such as Ipads, laptops, desktop computer, video cameras, Ipods, cell phones, video games, etc. They will read the case study “A Day in the Life” from a student in 1999. The students will compare the two case studies, and discuss as a group the differences. The will create a venn diagram showing the past and present use of technology, and things that are still the same.

Then, the students will break into small cooperative learning groups, and discuss their ideas for the future of technology. Students will come up with ideas about where technology will be in the next 50 years. They will share their ideas with the class, and see the similarities and differences for their ideas.

The students will be introduced to the website Glogster. In their small groups students will create a digital poster based on their idea of the future. Students will then present the Glogster posters to the class and justify their conclusions.

 For the formative assessment students will share their ideas about past, current, and future technologies. For the summative assessment students online posters will be graded based on the rubric.


 * Rubric: **
 * CATEGORY || 1 - Beginning || 2 - Developing || 3 - Accomplished || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4 - Exemplary ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet Research || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Did not use internet time to research technology. No relevant citations. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Used only one relevant citation. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Used 2 or 3 relevant citations. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Used multiple relevant citations for research. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cooperative Skills || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hardly Ever... ...volunteering opinions and ideas during group discussions. ...listening to the opinions and ideas of others. ...involved in reaching a decision, helping others generate ideas, and researching articles, etc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sometimes... ...volunteering opinions and ideas during group discussions. ...listening to the opinions and ideas of others. ...involved in reaching a decision, helping others generate ideas, and researching articles, etc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of the Time... ...volunteering opinions and ideas during group discussions. ...listening to the opinions and ideas of others. ...involved in reaching a decision, helping others generate ideas, and researching articles, etc. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Always... ...volunteering opinions and ideas during group discussions. ...listening to the opinions and ideas of others. ...involved in reaching a decision, helping others generate ideas, and researching articles, etc. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Justification || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No justification of why you chose the technology. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Only one sentence for why you chose the technology. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Detailed justification of future technology ideas. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fully defends future technology ideas. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Graphics - Relevance || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Graphics do not relate to the topic OR several borrowed graphics do not have a source citation. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All graphics relate to the topic. One or two borrowed graphics have a source citation. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All graphics are related to the topic and most make it easier to understand. Some borrowed graphics have a source citation. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">All graphics are related to the topic and make it easier to understand. All borrowed graphics have a source citation. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Attractiveness || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The poster is distractingly messy or very poorly designed. It is not attractive. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The poster is acceptably attractive though it may be a bit messy. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The poster is attractive in terms of design, layout and neatness. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The poster is exceptionally attractive in terms of design, layout, and neatness. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Grammar || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are more than 4 grammatical/mechanical mistakes on the poster. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are 3-4 grammatical/mechanical mistakes on the poster. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are 1-2 grammatical/mechanical mistakes on the poster. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are no grammatical/mechanical mistakes on the poster. ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student appears to have insufficient knowledge about the facts or processes used in the poster. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student can accurately answer some questions related to facts in the poster and processes used to create the poster. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student can accurately answer most questions related to facts in the poster and processes used to create the poster. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Student can accurately answer all questions related to facts in the poster and processes used to create the poster. ||

Resources:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/ethics/day_in_the_life.cfm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.educationworld.com/a_tsl/archives/00-1/lesson0053.shtml__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://web.archive.org/web/20011207112733/http://www.geocities.com/msdejonghe/GroupNewspaper.htm__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://eworkshop.on.ca/edu/pdf/Mod32_Poster_Rubric.pdf__]