Burroughs'+Online+Collaboration+Lesson+Plan

**Related Lessons: **Black History Month – African-Americans and their impact on history  **GOALS ** Lesson Description  Students will work together in groups of two to three people. Their objective will be to teach students in earlier grades about the impact of specific African-Americans and their influence of change on the history of our country. Having worked in previous weeks to gather information on their selected individual, student groups will create a wiki page which will assemble the information they have gathered as well as pictures, videos, and other sources of information beneficial to educating younger students. Students will link their blog page to allow for questions from individuals who visit their wiki page.  ** Georgia State ELA Standards:  **  ** ELA8LSV2 ** The student listens to and views various forms of text and media in order to gather and share information, persuade others, and express and understand ideas. The student will select and critically analyze messages using rubrics as assessment tools.  **ELA8RC2 **The student participates in discussions related to curricular learning in all subject areas**.**  **  NETS-S  ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Creativity and innovation <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Communication and collaboration <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Digital citizenship <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Technology operations and concepts <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> **<span style="background: silver; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">ACTION **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Whole class discussion – students will discuss what influential African-Americans they are familiar with or who they have learned about during their Georgia History class. Discussion of how this individual was influential in changing the history of our nation will be the focus of our discussion. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overhead projector  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 1 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Small group discussion – students will be assigned groups. From the list generated in class, student groups will come to a consensus on which individual they will focus their research and wiki on. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">None || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will use an entrance ticket on which to write the name of their individual for research. Group assignments will be charted on the board. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Post-it Notes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Chart paper || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Whole class discussion – discussion of particular job assignments for group members and their responsibilities  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overhead projector <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – job assignments and duties || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Small group discussion – groups will meet to discuss who will take on what role in the group. They will also begin to discuss what type of information they will include in their research. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – job assignments and duties charts, research topics chart || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will be given the task of looking at different presentation methods for their research. They will use the internet to record and evaluate specific sites they find useful || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handout – internet site listing and evaluation  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Entrance ticket – write down the link to one site you found especially useful during your research the night before  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Post-it Notes  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Whole class discussion – teacher will project a variety of sites discovered by students (written on entrance ticket) on the overhead. The class will discuss what they believe was beneficial or could have been changed to make it more informational or appealing || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Audio/video/Internet resources <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Interwrite pad  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Small group – students will meet to discuss and finalize what each task the group member will be responsible for as well as what aspect of the research each group member will focus on  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – member task sheet, research assignment sheet  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will meet in computer lab to begin working on the research phase of their project  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Internet and computer access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – resource list sheet, note taking sheet || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will meet in computer lab to continue their research phase of the project  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – resource list sheet, note taking sheet   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 6 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Whole group discussion - Students will meet in computer lab. Teacher will discuss the use of wikis and how it will be used to present their research || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Internet and computer access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overhead projector with internet access || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 6 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Small group discussion – students will meet in their individual groups to begin discussing the formulation of their wiki and how they want their material to be presented  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – What are Wikis, and How Can I Use Them? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 7 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will meet in computer lab <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Small groups – students will begin to develop their wiki page using Wikispaces.com. The instructor should have access to a computer and overhead projector to answer any questions for the entire class to view to alleviate having to answer the same question || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Internet and computer access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overhead projector with internet access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – What are Wikis, and How Can I Use Them? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 8 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will meet in computer lab <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Small groups – students will continue to work on their wiki page using Wikispaces.com. The instructor should have access to a computer and overhead projector to answer any questions for the entire class to view to alleviate having to answer the same question || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Internet and computer access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overhead projector with internet access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – What are Wikis, and How Can I Use Them? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 9 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will meet in computer lab <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Small groups – students will finalize their wiki page using Wikispaces.com. The instructor should have access to a computer and overhead projector to answer any questions for the entire class to view to alleviate having to answer the same question <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Internet and computer access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overhead projector with internet access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Handouts – What are Wikis, and How Can I Use Them? || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Day 10 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will meet in computer lab to present their wiki pages to the class. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Internet and computer access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Overhead projector with internet access <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">MONITOR ** **__ ASSESSMENTS  __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Lesson Title: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Forward Progress Lest We Forget
 * Grade & Subject:** 8th English/Language Arts
 * Unit:** Informational research
 * Before-Class Preparation**: As part of the research unit, students will already have been discussing important African-American figures and their impact of change on our country. Because of this, they will have some knowledge of prominent figures and who they would like to focus their unit on.
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS: Throughout the research process, students will periodically conference with the teacher answering questions in reference to the information they have obtained in their research as well as the progress of the compilation of their information into their presentation form. As well, students will keep a daily journal of their progress and information they have acquired.

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Upon completion of the unit, students will be given a test to assess the information they have learned throughout the research process. Summative assessment will be given in the form of multiple choice as well as written response <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">EVALUATION ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Students will do self-reflection throughout the research process through journals or their classroom blog. While during their research and development of their wiki page, students will communicate with each other and their instructor through the classroom blog as well as the classroom Twitter account. By allowing an interaction during the process and creation of their wikis, students will be able to evaluate and make appropriate changes as needed. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">