Recipes for Technology Integration

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Recipes for Technology Integration

• Linda L. Mills, Library Media Specialist
• Greensburg Community Schools
• lmills_at_venus.net
• www.greensburg.k12.in.us/teacher/millslinda

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Ingredients needed

• Library media specialist
• Teachers
• Technology
• Supportive administrators
• Students
• Standards

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Blend these all together and what do you
get?Collaboration!Higher achieving
students!Happy administrators!Contented
teachers/lms!
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To blend well, you must plan

• Anytime
• Anywhere
• Formally
• Informally
• BUT make sure you write it down!

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Primary Ingredient

• Know the standards
• Use the website (http//ideanet.doe.in.state)
• Combine standards

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Secondary Ingredients

• Computer labs
• Computers in classroom
• Camcorders
• Scanners

• Digital cameras
• SmartBoards
• AlphaSmarts
• Books/Magazines
• Programs

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AlphaSmarts?

• Portable keyboards
• Other names
• Writing
• Math problems
• Keyboarding
• http//www3.alphasmart.com/

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SmartBoards?

• Internet
• Writing
• Games
• Presentations
• Demonstrations
• www.smarttech.com
• www.edcompass.smarttech.com

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Digital Cameras?

• Field trips
• Students
• Wanted posters
• Writing prompts
• Place/positions

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Magazines and Books

• Technology magazines
• Subject area magazines
• Bibliography

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Programs

• Inspiration/Kidspiration
• Kid Pix
• Kid Works Deluxe
• Graph Club
• Any word processor
• Any spreadsheet

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Genre Studies
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Historical Fiction
Ingredients

• 30 historical fiction picture books
• 1 class of students
• 1-3 Reading Rainbow tapes
• 1 camcorder
• Paper, pencils
• Teacher and library media specialist

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• Combine
• A pinch of Library Media Specialist historical
  fiction introduction
• Reading Rainbow book reviews
• A lot of student reading
• A cup of booktalk knowledge
• A healthy dose of writing

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• Booktalk Knowledge
• A catchy beginning or a hook
• A little meat in the middle
• 1-2 sentence conclusion
• Title, author, their name

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• Yields
• A set of booktalks on video
• Knowledge of the historical fiction genre
• Oral speaking skills
• Writing skills
• Students hooked on historical fiction
• Standards LA4.3.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.9, 4.5.4,
  4.7.11, 4.7.5, 4.7.8, 4.7.9

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Fairy Tales/Tall Tales

• Ingredients
• 4th grade classroom
• Teacher and library media specialist
• Lots of books on tall tales
• Read tall tales to the class
• Discuss the genre.

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• Process
• Students read books
• Tall tale quiz for fun
• Class brainstorms
• Collective tall tale about teacher written and
  illustrated on computer
• Standards Addressed LA4.3.1

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Biographies

• Ingredients
• 4th grade or 5th grade
• Use picture books to introduce biographies
• Standards LA4.7.13,4.4.9, 4.4.2, 4.4.3

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• Booktalk biographies
• Read biographies
• Outline persons life (graphic organizer,
  Timeliner)
• Write about person
• Practice
• Present/dress
• Critique presentation with rubric

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Ban the Bird
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Thirteen Colonies

• Ingredients
• 5th grade students
• Teacher and library media specialist
• Reference books/books
• Computers/presentation program

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• Add a twist
• Promote colony to would-be immigrants
• Standards addressed SS5.1.8, 5.2.1, 5.4.5,
  5.4.6, 5.5.6

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• Procedure
• Assign colonies
• Brainstorm questions to answer
• Complete research
• Write drafts of brochures
• Create brochures on computer

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• Yields
• Set of brochures
• Practice presentation skills
• Evaluation skills
• Practice writing skills
• Copy free research

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State brochures and presentation

• Ingredients
• 5th grade students
• Teachers and library media specialist
• Standards addressed SS5.3.2, 5.3.3, 5.3.4,
  5.3.5, 5.4.8, 5.4.9, 5.4.10, 5.4.3, 5.4.5 LA
  standards also

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• Combine
• Research
• Notetaking
• Yield
• Brochure
• Presentation
• Group work

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Biomes/Habitats

• Ingredients
• 4th grade
• AlphaSmarts
• Books on biomes
• Teacher and library media specialist
• Computer/presentation program

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• Blend
• Student groups
• Assigned biomes
• Brainstormed questions
• Research
• Bake
• Information
• Presentation program

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Science projects
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Weather charts

• Ingredients
• Kid Pix
• 1st grade
• Weather books
• Tapes about weather (Weather School)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Standards SS1.3.6

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• Preparation
• Discussion in class
• Observations
• Weather logs
• Examine symbols on weather maps

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• Yields
• Student made weather logs (science)
• Reading skills for maps and charts (reading)
• Record keeping skills (science)

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Parts of a Plant

• Ingredients
• Plant books
• Computer
• Kid Pix
• Teacher and library media specialist
• Use Plant that Ate the Dirty Socks and The Dirty
  Boy

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• Mix
• Story (read aloud)
• Plant research
• Kid Pix skills
• Imagination
• Yield
• Student created plants

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Constellations

• Ingredients
• Kid Pix
• Students
• Constellation books
• Follow the Drinking Gourd

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Snakes

• Researched snakes
• Chose a snake for each letter of the alphabet
• Took notes
• Divided snakes up between students
• Produced abc book on snakes

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Social Studies
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Map Skills

• Ingredients
• First grade
• Teacher and library media specialist
• Social studies textbook
• Simple map books
• Kid Pix
• Computer

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• Process
• Examine maps
• Discuss symbols
• Compare and contrast information
• Use map skills
• Standards addressed SS1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.7
• Yield
• Generated maps of familiar places

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Health
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Nutrition

• Ingredients
• Kid Pix
• Books on nutrition
• Food pyramid
• Videos

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Tooth P
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Tooth Project

• Involved 10 classes from around the U.S.
• K-W-L chart on what they knew about teeth
• First grade
• Researched animal teeth
• Graphed lost teeth
• Drew and labeled teeth
• Webquest
• http//www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/
• http//projects.edtech.sandi.net/grant/teeth/index
  .htm

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Writing/Language

• Projects and ideas by kindergarten, first, second
  grade teachers

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Standards LA1.6.2 (using complete sentences)
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Graphic Organizators
Standards LA1.5.1 organizing stories
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Standards LA1.5.4 using describing words
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Standards SS 1.5.2 famous people and LA1.1.5
writing stories
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Where we live
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Authors

• Ingredients
• First grade or any grade
• Teacher, media specialist and art teacher
• Books by author chosen
• Lots of ideas and planning
• Standards addressed LA1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.2

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• Process
• Introduce author to class
• Look for information about the author
• Compare and contrast an author vs. an illustrator
• Read aloud--teacher
• Read books--students
• Write about his books

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Norman Bridwell

• Read Clifford books
• Discussed Norman Bridwell after reading his
  biography
• Watched a video of Bridwell
• Created Clifford in art class
• Talked with Norman Bridwell in an online
  discussion from Scholastic
• Wrote a letter to the author.

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Eric Carle

• Ingredients
• Media specialist, classroom teacher, and art
  teacher
• Books on and by Eric Carle
• AlphaSmarts
• Paper and pencil
• Graph Club or graphing program

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• Read and discuss The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Explore graphs
• Graph what the caterpillar ate
• Create individual student graphs in lab
• Use different graph forms

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• Variations
• Art teacher talked about Carles art style
• Create caterpillars structured on Carles art
  work
• Students write using AlphaSmarts to create author
  books

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Other Authors

• Introduced the author--Jan Brett, Helen Lester,
  Kevin Henkes
• Read books
• Did projects
• Write on Alphasmarts
• Talked to author--Brett

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Helen Lester

• Read Tacky books
• Discussed penguins
• Conducted penguin research
• Discovered penguin facts
• Wrote about penguins using alphasmarts
• Standards addressed

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Kid Pix, Kindergarten, and Standards

• Ingredients
• Kindergarten classes
• Teacher and library media specialist
• The standards
• Computer lab

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• Process
• Introduce Kid Pix tools
• Divide the paper using straight line tool
• Make patterns with stamp tool
• Create shapes with rectangle, square, and circle
  tools

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Standards K.3.2 making patterns
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Shapes M K.4.1
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• Process
• Make alphabet books--stamp letters
• Work with numbers--stamp numbers and pictures
• Create simple addition problems with number
  stamps
• Write using typewriter tool.

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Alphabet book made by class LA K.1.4, K.1.18,
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Beginning sounds LA K1.1.11
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Beginning sounds LA K. 1.11
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Numbers M K.1.6
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Standards M K.2.2
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I see a snowman. He is big! My snowman has a
black hat. AJ
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Other programs to use

• Baileys Book House
• Sammys Science House
• Millies Math House

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Math Standards and School Improvement
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Math story problems

• Ingredients
• Kid Works Deluxe
• Second and third grade
• Process
• Story problem on one side
• Stamp on other side
• Number sentence

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Standards MK.2.1
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Other Projects
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Deserts

• Ingredients
• Teacher and library media specialist
• Desert books
• Cactus books
• Discuss life cycle of a cactus
• Kidspiration

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Beavers

• Ingredients
• 2nd grade students
• Teacher and library media specialist
• Lots of books about beavers (duplicates if
  possible)

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• Process
• A dash of information literacy
• Table of contents
• Index
• Pictures
• Guide words/bold words

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• Process
• Discuss notetaking
• Sheet with questions on it.
• Discuss paragraphs
• Yields
• Simple first time research
• Growth in information literacy skills
• Boost reading skills
• Practices notetaking

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Spiders

• Ingredients
• Spider books
• Spiders in reading book
• Large charts

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• Process
• Find information
• Write spider paragraphs
• Compare and contrast spiders
• Use Alphasmarts

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Thesaurus

• Ingredients
• Third graders
• Teacher and library media specialists
• Thesaurus

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• Process
• Student writes story on AlphaSmarts
• Brainstorm ideas for class story.
• Use thesaurus
• Yield
• Improved story writing
• Larger vocabulary
• Thesaurus skills

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Continents

• Ingredients
• All second grades
• Teachers and library media specialist
• Lots of books about the continents, countries,
  folktales
• Large maps

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• Process
• Each section rotates through the continents.
• Study continent
• Location, important cities, climate
• Write a page in Kid Words Deluxe

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Postcard Geography

• Process
• Write on AlphaSmarts
• Design a postcard
• Learn about other places
• Discuss Greensburg
• Standards in geography
• Standards in social studies

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Internet Use
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white mouse Small squeaky furry
rodent.computer mouse A way of telling the
computer what to do without using the keyboard.
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screen 1. object inserted into a window to keep
bugs outside, or 2. viewing surface for
movie screen viewing surface of computer monitor
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house window An opening in a house enabling you
to look inside or outside. computer window An
opening into a software application or program.
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piano keyboard A way to make music. computer
keyboard A way of telling the computer what to
do.
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landing net a fishing accessory. computer net
Short for network, a way to hook computers
together so they can share information.
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• Go to the following website for lots of links to
  lots of sites
• www.greensburg.k12.in.us/teacher/millslinda

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WebQuests

• Internet activity or paper and pencil
• Student centered
• Research
• Higher level thinking
• http//webquest.sdsu.edu/
• Bernie Dodge
• Insects/Snakes

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Remember------

• Know your standards
• Think about standards
• Know your curriculum
• Think about curriculum
• Investigate technology
• Learn technology

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• Remember
• Work with others
• Work with your media specialist
• Read magazines, books, etc.
• Visit other schools
• Go to conferences
• And most of all--------

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• Have fun using technology! You and your students
  will enjoy learning together.