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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.