EME2040
I enjoyed taking EME2040; it helped me learn about technology and its uses.
My favorite assignment during this course was the Teacher Webpage ePortfolio. It required a lot of time and patience. The first time I submitted the assignment, my grade was horrible. I did not quite understand everything my professor wanted. She was very nice and allowed me the opportunity to increase my score and gave me pointers as to what she was looking for in this assignment. I realized that this was more than just a simple assignment, she wanted to know what I had learned throughout the course. The assignment was by far the most educational one as well. It allowed me to go back to previous assignments and refreshed my memory of what it takes to become a successful teacher. An e Portfolio is a wonderful thing to create, so parents are familiar with who you are, the way you teach, what you know and what you expect from their children. It allows parents to access sites that you are using in school, so they can use them at home with their children to help them in the subjects they struggle in.
My ePortfolio
My favorite assignment during this course was the Teacher Webpage ePortfolio. It required a lot of time and patience. The first time I submitted the assignment, my grade was horrible. I did not quite understand everything my professor wanted. She was very nice and allowed me the opportunity to increase my score and gave me pointers as to what she was looking for in this assignment. I realized that this was more than just a simple assignment, she wanted to know what I had learned throughout the course. The assignment was by far the most educational one as well. It allowed me to go back to previous assignments and refreshed my memory of what it takes to become a successful teacher. An e Portfolio is a wonderful thing to create, so parents are familiar with who you are, the way you teach, what you know and what you expect from their children. It allows parents to access sites that you are using in school, so they can use them at home with their children to help them in the subjects they struggle in.
My ePortfolio
The lesson plan project was a group project I enjoyed being a part of. It was exciting because creating a lesson plan gave me an idea of what I will be required to do as a future educator. Lesson plans are useful for both students and parents. It allows them the opportunity to see what they will be learning weekly, and it allows them to know what they need to know at the end of the lesson. Standards are concepts that must be met within a given time. Standards are broken down so that students can understand what it is they need to learn. Lesson plans vary based on the needs of each child. For example, if a child is labeled ESE, there would be an area to show accommodations he or she needs to complete the assignment.
LESSON TITLE: Green Eggs and Ham Grade Level(s): Kindergarten Subject(s): ELA Lesson
Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Prepared by: Alexandria
Osorio and Sofia Zaragoza
Overview:
Students
will begin working on a book called Green eggs and Ham they will be able to
describe pictures in a story. As they go through the stations, they will also
practice with rhyming words, recognizing sight words and putting them
together to form sentences, and create their own picture based on the story.
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Standards:
LAFS.K.RF.2.2
Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial ,and final sounds (phonemes) in
three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not
include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
LAFS.K.RF.3.3
Read common high frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my,
is, are, do, and does.
LAFS.K.RL.1.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events
in a story.
LAFS.K.W.1.1
Use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to compose an opinion
piece in which they tell about the topic or name of book they are writing
about and state an opinion or preference.
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Learning Objective: Students will
demonstrate their ability to listen to a story and remember the main ideas.
They will also show their ability to read a book and draw a picture that they
describe in their own words.
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Materials/ Resources Needed: Internet
access, Smartboard or similar projector, book Green Eggs and Ham, blank paper
and crayons, green plastic eggs, green eggs and ham images, printer
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Introduction: Play Youtube Green Eggs
and Ham Read-Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32u4qrIVZQ
to introduce the book and give students an animated visual of what is being
read. Ask engaging questions about character appearance, conflict, and main
ideas that help students assimilate what they have just seen and heard.
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Lesson Activities:
(5 minutes): Play Green Eggs and Ham
Read-Aloud
(5 minutes): Have a discussion on the
main points of the video. I will use a discussion ball that will be passed to
whomever wants to answer my questions to engage the students.
(25 minutes): We will read the book as
a class. Each student will read one page aloud.
(5 minutes): I will ask students to
tell me specific details about the story, like places where the main
character did not want to eat green eggs and ham and some of the animals
mentioned.
(60 minutes): Divide the students into
three groups and assign each of them to a station in the room. Each station
should last approximately twenty minutes.
Station 1: At a round table with
me. This station will focus on words that rhyme in the story. I will take
this opportunity to go over the main phonograms (i.e ai and oa) that are used
in the book and to review the different sounds that vowels can make. I will
have for them plastic green eggs that split in half with a word on both
parts. The students will put together the eggs based on which words rhyme.
This group will be split in two so every student has the chance to practice.
Station 2: Students will be using
the Smartboard to create a menu as a team. I will prepare different text
boxes on a Word document (see attached)
that contain a picture of a food item as well as its name, and they
must choose eight item boxes to drag into the menu, two of which will be
green eggs and ham. Some choices will be apples, bananas, water, beans, milk,
etc. I will provide them with clay to create each food item they choose in
their menu and put them on a plate or in a cup.
Station 3: Students will put
together sentences using words that are written on printouts of green eggs
and ham. Once they have put together two sentences they like, they will draw
a picture that describes something in the story and write the two sentences
they chose beneath the image as a caption. These pictures should be colored
nicely.
(5 minutes): To conclude, I will ask
students to share their favorite activity and what they learned from the
book.
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Strategies- ESE/ESOL:
Accommodations:
Teacher may read questions to student, student may work one on one with the
assistant. This lesson is great for ELL students because it focuses on
listening, reading, writing, and speaking. The stations are also very
interactive, which improves their communication skills as they work together
with other students.
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Strategies- Integrating Technologies: Smart
Board will be used to present the story, so the children can see the pictures
and listen to what is being read. They will also use the Smartboard in the
Station #2.
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Evaluation/ Critique of Educational
Software/ Web-based Resource: Starting out the lesson with this animated
read aloud sparks the students’ interest in the book. The interesting thing
out this video is that it combines the cartoon illustrations from the book
with real-life settings that match the places mentioned in the book.
Listening to the read aloud also helps children once they have to read the
book by themselves because they are familiar with what it says and they can
associate sounds with written words. The Smartboard activity in Station #2 is
also a way to make the learning experience enjoyable and to personalize the
story.
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Summary: Students will have listened
to and read Green Eggs and Ham, and they will have engaged in three different
activities that honed in on their ability to read and comprehend a story.
They will have also practiced rhyming and some fine motor skills like
writing, drawing, and making objects out of clay. A lesson to learn from
Green Eggs and Ham is that we should not judge something before we try it.
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Assessment- Type: Students will be
able to illustrate a photo and write two sentences explaining what they
learned from the story based on the observations they made. Although they
will engage in other activities, I will collect their drawings and see how
well they understood the story based on the details they extracted. I will
also be able to assess if the interactive activities helped them in their
writing.
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Educational Theorist:
Cognitive--the
student will need to use both their short-term and long-term memory to
complete the various tasks throughout the lesson. However, rehearsal and
emphasis are needed to keep these essential skills in the long-term memory.
Also, since children at this age are not yet able to think abstractly, they
need to feel the information they are learning and engage in sensory
activities whenever possible.
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Overall this course was very useful and informative. I enjoyed reading the book and writing discussion posts. The posts allowed me to see how my peers felt about the topics we were given. I honestly learned valuable information based on these post. I enjoyed all the assignments that our professor gave us.
Resources:
Galindo, Maria. (2016, April 5). EME2040. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnviIbeeyA