TPACK virual touring

What is the content I will be using?
For this activity I will be using Standard 1: students will understand how geography influences community location and development, Objective 3:Students will understand how geography influences community location and development, A: Identify ways people use the physical environment (e.g. agriculture, recreation, energy, industry) and E: Make inferences about the positive and negative impacts of human-caused change to the physical environment. I want the students to be exposed to a different culture and see how certain cultures preserve their history and allow it to become part of who they are. The students will be visiting a path of four major cities in Spain. Each city has different culture influences like, the Muslim architecture, Gothic style, and several other styles.

What is the pedagogy I will be using and why is it a good fit?
I would start this lesson off by showing them different pictures of buildings and other culture related things that are found all over the world. I would then generate a discussion about differences and why that is important and makes the world a better place. After that we would focus in on Spain and introduce a little about its history. Then I would show the tour to the children so they would be able to make connections to what we discussed in class.

What is the technology I will be using and why is it a good fit?
I will be using the virtual tour for this activity. This will be great for the students because instead of just talking about it and maybe showing a couple of pictures, they will be able to get a greater picture of what it is really like. This will help them make more connections and learn more about the culture differences in Spain compared to the United States.

Virtual Tour Planning...

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Sevilla, Spain	Looking at the Cathedral that is located here and analyze ways the culture preserves this environment for the Spaniards	Pictures and Videos of the Cathedral from: http://wiki.worldflicks.org/seville.html#null
2. La Alhambra (Granada, Spain)	Looking at the culture and ways that is is developed and preserved	Photos from: http://www.pbase.com/abwhitt/alhambra_granada Slide show from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ73Y7kNBf8
3. Barcelona, Spain	Looking at the famous gothic cathedral that is located here and seeing how the culture preserves and values this	Slide show found at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNlxB69bHTc
4. El Prado Museum/ Botanical Garden (Madrid, Spain)	Taking a tour through the gardens and seeing how culture takes care of the different parts of the country	Garden pictures: http://mindymcadams.com/photos/flowers/ Slide show for Prado: http://www.stoa.org/gallery/slideshow.php?set_albumName=album149
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	The path is going to be taking a little trip to these four different places in Spain. I will be connecting these four different cities and having the children see the different cultures and how these cultures are so different from the United Stats!

Week 6- Digital Storytelling :)

Week 5- Storyboard!

*What is the content use for the lesson?
The content I am using is for kindergarten age children. It is objective 3: Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings; A. Identify and express ideas, information, and feelings in a variety of ways.
*What is the pedagogy used and why does it fit with the content?
For this lesson the teacher will use a read aloud to the students, throughout the reading the teacher will make the reading interactive and encourage the children to think of the different emotions and feelings that are being discussed. There will be an activity for the students to complete after the reading that will integrate the use of motor skills and relation the text to self/text to world.
*What is the technology used and why is it a good fit with the pedagogy and technology?
For the technology that will go along with this lesson I think that the digital storytelling would be fun for the students. Each child will draw/create a picture of emotions (or I will take pictures of the children making different faces). Then we can put the pictures of the students together and provide narration and music. This will not only be so much fun for the students, but it will provide them with more exposure to the world of technology.

Questions

For the project our group is focusing on the state core standard that students will be able to understand the microorganisms range from simple to complex and to know how there are both helpful and harmful.  The objective we are using is for students to be able to understand and summarize information about microorganisms.  The pedagogy that can be incorporated into our lesson is dealing with how to teach science.  Because our lesson is focused on a step by step process where they experiment with the online activities of the virtual pond and then later they will be looking at real pond water under the microscopes, which goes along with the standards of the lesson where the students will gain a greater understanding of microorganisms as well as learn how to summarize information related to them.  As the students look at the different microorganisms they will be able to see the process in which they grow as well as distinguishing between the different forms.  This will help them with analyzing their science data and learn about different characteristics which is related back to the pedagogy.  The technology that our group used was the Virtual pond dip, along with a microscope.  This technology is very beneficial for the students because it has several different organisms within the pond and the students can click on each one and learn about it.  This allows the student to go through the process of analyzing information and learning about the different qualities of the science lesson.   This is a good way for the students to learn about the pond life while including the utah state core and the TPACK tools to better assist the lesson plan.