To Catch a Falling Star: A Smart Board Implementation Project

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To Catch a Falling StarA Smart Board
Implementation Project
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My Original Project
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My Original Project

• Guidelines

• A high interest assignment

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The best laid plans . . .
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My New ProjectSmart Board Activities

• 1st Technology Lesson

Low quality (Didnt use the Smart
Board)

• 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Technology Lesson

High quality (Did use the Smart
Board)
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What is a Smart Board?
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First Smart Board Lesson

• Analogy Jeopardy

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Second Smart Board Lesson

• Prefix Concentration Game

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Third Smart Board Lesson

• Introductory Paragraphs

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Objectives

• 1) Identify the three components of a good
  introductory paragraph

2) Analyze the effectiveness of those components
in sample paragraphs
3) Create a first-rate introduction their natural
disaster papers
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Materials

• 1 Laptop, LCD, Smart Board, and corresponding
  connector cords
• 3 "hurricane" envelopes containing 5 strips of
  paper (these 5 strips will be 5 sentences of a
  paragraph about hurricanes)
• 3 "tsunami" envelopes containing 5 strips of
  paper (these 5 strips will be 5 sentences of a
  paragraph about tsunamis)
• 3 "tornado" envelopes containing 5 strips of
  paper (these 5 strips will be 5 sentences of a
  paragraph about tornadoes)
• 90 copies of the Intro Paragraph handout
• 90 copies of the three five-sentence paragraphs

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Procedure

• 1) Go through the Intro Paragraph notes on the
  Smart Board

2) Explain the rules for the ordering and
highlighting activity
-- Five strips five sentences -- Put the
sentences in a logical order -- Hook circled
in yellow. Additional underlined in green.
Topic Sentence box in red
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Procedure

• 3) Before I let students open their envelopes, I
  told them . . .

4) After about five minutes, I asked a group of
students to come up to the board.
5) Students were supposed to spend the rest of
the class working on their own intro paragraph
for their natural disaster paper. If there was
time . . .
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Assessment --Did I meet my objectives?

• Identify the three components of a good
  introductory paragraph

YES
2) Analyze the effectiveness of those components
in sample paragraphs
YES
3) Create a first-rate introduction their natural
disaster papers
NO
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Lessons Learned

• 1) Students love rearranging strips of paper.
  This is a highly effective way of teaching
  sentence order.

2) Never knock mnemonics.
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Lessons Learned

• 3) If a group of students are at the Smart Board,
  the rest of the students cannot just be watching
  them they need to be actively doing something.

4) Unless competition is involved (i.e. Jeopardy,
Matching, or Concentration), most of the period
should not be spent at the Smart Board.
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• The
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