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Students used a
great deal of technology in this unit. After
students were assigned one or more body
parts within a particular body system, they
were responsible for researching their body
part(s) using the Internet. Using the
information and pictures collected from
their Internet resources, students then used
the computer program Microsoft PowerPoint to
create at least three slides detailing the
location and function of their body part(s),
provided at least two relevant pictures and
at least three interesting facts. Students
then combined their slides with the slides
of their peers from the same body system and
made a presentation to the class.
Before students began creating their
presentation slides, I first showed them how
to locate information online. I also created
a PowerPoint presentation about the kidneys
to illustrate exactly what I expected of
their PowerPoint presentations. As a class,
we went through the key aspects of the
PowerPoint program, including adding new
slides, formatting existing slides,
inserting pictures and text boxes, and
formatting backgrounds and fonts.
Students also used technology when writing
their group stories, “What Happens to a
________?” After initially drafting their
story in class, students were allowed to
type the story using the computer program
Microsoft Word. Most groups then printed out
the story and a few pictures to cut and
paste them into their story books.
I also created two other PowerPoint
presentations during the unit in addition to
the PowerPoint example about the kidneys.
One detailed the steps necessary to create a
bar graph which used collaborative class
data. The other was a Jeopardy Review of the
entire unit which was played as a class
prior to giving the post-test. |
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