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1. Why do you think
Strega
Nona didn't want Big Anthony to use her magic pasta pot? 2. What do you think Strega Nona means by "the punishment must fit the crime"? |
General Information
Name: Erin Williams
School/Mentor Teacher: WG Nunn/ Miss Minson
Grade Level: K
Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Language Arts, &
Fine Arts
Date Taught:
Total Duration of Lesson: About 45 minutes
Title of Lesson
Learning
With Technology & Literature
Primary Learning Outcomes
(PLO)
The primary learning outcomes to be achieved with this lesson include:
A. With teacher guidance, student will be able to use the mouse while
operating the computer
B. With teacher guidance, student will be able to develop a picture
using a drawing program on the computer.
Related QCC Standards
A. Grade: K
Technology Integration
Strand: Basic Skills
5 Topic: Basic Skills
Standard: Operates basic technology tools and applications.
B. Grade: K
Fine Arts
Strand: Visual Arts
3 Topic: Artistic Skills and Knowledge: Creating, Performing, Producing
Standard: Uses a variety of art materials and techniques to model,
construct, and compose original artworks.
Materials and Equipment
1. Book: dePaola, T. (1975). Strega
Nona. New York: Simon and Schuster.
2. Computer with Internet connection
3. Computer drawing program
4. Printer
5. Disks (one for each student’s picture)
6. Pencil and paper (to make notes for lesson plan
assessment
and reflections)
7. Modification of lesson developed by Dr. Diane
L. Judd
URL:
http://www.valdosta.edu/~djudd/paintlesson.html
Technology Connection
Technologies that will be used in this lesson include: computer with
Internet connection, printer, computer drawing program, and website of
Paint Picture & Story. Students will use computers to view
examples of pictures developed with a paint program. Students
will use a computer drawing program to draw a picture related to the
story. Copy of my
Paint website included with this lesson
plan.
Website Title: Paint Picture & Story of
Just a Piggy Bank and URL: http://www.valdosta.edu/~enwillia/paint.html
Procedures
Step One:
Introduction
Have a small group of students go to a computer. Tell
students
that today you are going to read a special book
to them and
they will get to draw a picture on the computer. Explain that the
book you are going to read is about
an interesting woman, Strega Nona,
and her magic pasta pot.
After reading the book, Strega Nona,
have students draw a picture on the
computer using a drawing program about the part of the book that they
liked
best.
Introduction questions: (Four or more) This story takes place
in another part of the world. It is about a special woman named Strega
Nona
with a magic pasta pot. Her helper, Big Anthony, goes against her
wishes and uses the pot causing a lot of chaos. The pasta gets out of
control and starts to flood the town.
1. Have you ever been to another country? What was it?
2. Have you ever read any books about magical things? What were they?
3. If you had a magic pot, what kind of food would it make?
4. Do you think it would be
scary if pasta began to flood your town?
Relate lesson to students' lives today and/or future: The book, Strega Nona, will teach us some very important
things about following directions. Explain to students that they should
always listen when parents and teachers tell them what to do because
they know best. This book has a very important moral lesson.
Have students go to your Paint picture website
and explain that you have made a picture on the computer as an
example
of one of your favorite books, Just
a Piggy Bank by Gina and Mercer Mayer.
(Have students sit at the computer where they can control
the mouse and computer. Assist students, if needed, to scroll
up and down on Paint picture Web page.) Briefly share your Paint
picture
and explain why this book is one of your favorite books.
Estimated Time:
About 10 minutes
Step Two:
Teaching the Primary
Learning Outcomes
Explain to the students that you have selected a special book, Strega Nona, by Tommie
dePaola, that
you are going to read to them. After reading the book to the
students, then have students draw a picture using a drawing program on
the computer of their favorite part of the
story.
Teacher will
use
oral reading strategies, such as picture walk, to introduce the book to
students.
Check for understanding before going on: Teacher will discuss
story and ask questions while
reading
to students.
(List four or more questions to ask students while reading the book.)
1. Do you know what kind of pasta
this is?
2. Why does Strega Nona need to
hire some help?
3. Why do you think Big Anthony
chooses this time to use the pasta pot?
4. How are these people
feeling towards Big Anthony?
Provide practice and
feedback related to the primary learning outcomes: Teacher
will ask at least two critical thinking questions:
1. Why do you think Strega
Nona didn't want Big Anthony to use her magic pasta pot?
2. What do you think Strega Nona
means by "the punishment must fit the crime"?
Guided Practice: Assist students to open the drawing program
and demonstrate how to
use some of the drawing tools. Allow students to have some
exploration
time with the drawing program and teacher will assist when needed.
Independent Practice: Students will draw a picture of their
favorite part of the book, Strega
Nona,
using a computer drawing program. During
this drawing process teacher will observe students using the computer
and give assistance
when needed. If possible print two copies
of each student’s paint picture (one for student and one for your
technology
notebook). Also save students’ pictures on disks
[File--->Save
As--->File name (give name with no spaces)--->Save as type
(jpg
or gif)--->Save in (A:)]. If possible save
students' pictures on computers, just in case something happens to the
pictures on the disks.
Estimated Time:
About 25 minutes
Have students discuss their pictures and explain how they made their pictures in the drawing program to you, and if possible to their teacher and peers. Have students discuss some of the interesting facts about the ocean that they found in the story. Ask students if they were going to draw another picture in the drawing program, what would they draw? Explain to students that most computers have drawing programs and maybe they could draw another picture at home or school. Teacher will review how to find the drawing program on most computers: Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> Paint
Tell students that you are going to put their picture on the Internet and they will be able to go on the Internet and share their pictures with friends and family. (If possible teacher should take brief notes during the lesson and concluding discussions for the lesson plan's assessment and reflections to be added later.)
Estimated Time:
About 10 minutes
Assessment the Primary
Learning Outcomes
A. Technology Integration
Student will be assessed through observation while using the mouse
to control the computer and using the drawing program.
Satisfactory: Student is able to control the computer and use
the mouse to view the Paint Web page and explore the drawing program.
Unsatisfactory: Student is not able to control the computer
or use the mouse when viewing the Paint Web page and exploring the
drawing
program.
B. Fine Arts
Student will be assessed by the development of a picture using the
drawing program.
Satisfactory: Student is able to develop a picture through the
use of the drawing program.
Unsatisfactory: Student is not able to develop a picture through
the use of the drawing program.
Accommodation
Links
for Accommodations for Special Students
1. Select one of your students that needs special
attention. Describe the student in your class with special needs.
(Do not use the student's real name. You could refer to the
student
as "the special student.") There is a child in my mentor teacher's
class who is legally blind. The child can see to do work, but must be
very close to it in order to see. For example, when doing a
worksheet, the child puts it very close to the face.
2. List the specific URL address of one Internet resource website, where you found information to assist you to work with your special needs student. Information for assisting special students: Links for Accommodations for Special Students or you can do a search. http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/passwd/trc/ttools/attach/accomm/visimp.doc
3. Explain what you would add to this lesson plan to accommodate your special student? I would make sure the computer screen is at the child's eye level so they can put their face close to it.Explain what you would add to this lesson to accommodate your special student. The accessibility wizard in the computer's programs can also magnify the screen.
Reflections
1. Describe and give examples of how you used
instructional stategies and the use of technology to encourage
students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and
performance skills during this technology
integrated lesson. I had to guide the students' in
answering the critical thinking questions by elaborating on the story.
I had to lead them to the answers sometimes. I was able to get
one student to use her critical thinking skills when she noticed the
other student using the typing feature on the paint program. I
asked her how else she might be able to write something and she figured
out that she could draw words with her mouse.
2. Describe and give examples that illustrate how the
students
achieved each assessment of your lesson. Give the achievement
level (satisfactory or unsatisfactory) for each assessment
for
each
of your students. (List
specific
examples (as evidence) that illustrate how your students
did for each
part
of the lesson's assessment.)
A. Technology Integration:
Student One:
Satisfactory- This student easily took
to the mouse and was able to navigate quickly.
Student Two: Satisfactory- This student was not as
apt with the mouse but learned quickly.
B. Fine Arts:
Student One: Satisfactory- This student knew her way
aroung the paint program. She did very well and loved to explore.
Student Two:
Satisfactory- This student had never
used this particular paint program and had to learn. She wanted to
spend a lot of time explorong but was able to draw a picture and
explain it to me nonetheless.
3. Describe what you would change or do differently if you taught
this
lesson again. (Give specific examples)
I would give them more time to explore
the paint program. One student was hurt that she couldn't draw what she
wanted. I would also choose a shorter story. One student stopped me in
the middle and said, "I don't like long stories. They make me sleepy."
Paint Pictures by
Elementary
Students
Paint Lesson developed by Erin Williams for K
graders at WG Nunn
Elementary School
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1. Why do you think
Strega
Nona didn't want Big Anthony to use her magic pasta pot? 2. What do you think Strega Nona means by "the punishment must fit the crime"? |
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1. Strega Nona thought Big Anthony might
break her pot.
2. This student didn't think Big Anthony
should be tied up because that would be wrong. |
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This is a picture of Strega
Nona using her magic pasta pot. The student liked the birds she noticed
in the pages of the book so she wanted to include them in her picture. |
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1. Strega Nona thought Big
Anthony would make a mess.
2. Big Anthony didn't deserve to be tied up
because he only made a mistake. |
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This is a picture of Big
Anthony and the pasta pot. The pasta is beginning to get out of control. |