General Information
Name: Joel Futch
School/Mentor Teacher: Berrien Primary
Grade Level: Pre- 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. Student will be able to use the mouse while operating the computer
B. Student will be able to develop a picture using a drawing program on the computer.
 

Related QCC Standards
A. Grade: Pre-K
Technology Integration
Strand: Basic Skills
5 Topic: Basic Skills
Standard: Operates basic technology tools and applications.

B. Grade: Pre-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: Silverstein, S. (1964). The giving tree. New York: Harper Collins.
   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 and The Story of the Giving Tree   and URL: http://www.valdosta.edu/~jefutch/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 a boy that grows up with a tree for a friend.  After reading the book, The Giving Tree, have students draw a picture on the computer using a drawing program about the part of the book that they liked best.

Introduction questions: (Introduce lesson topic/subject & find out students' previous knowledge with four or more questions)

1. Do any of you have trees in your yard? What kind?
2. Have any of you ever wanted to have a tree as a friend?
3. Do any of you like apples? What kind do you like?
4. Have you ever given somebody something of yours to help them?

Relate lesson to students' lives today and/or future:

The Giving Tree teaches about friendship and the things that friends do to help one another. It also teaches a lesson about growing older, and what may be important to you when you do.

Students contol the computer and go to your Paint picture website.  Explain how picture was developed on the computer.  Tell students they will draw a picture on the computer about their favorite part of the book that you are going to read to them.  (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.)  Share your Paint picture and story summary.  Ask students one or more critical thinking questions about the ending of the story.  

Critical  thinking questions about ending of  story (one or more critical thinking questions):

1. Do you think the tree was a good friend to the boy?   How did she show it?

 
Estimated Time:
About 10 minutes

Step Two: Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes
Read selected book, The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein, to students.  After reading the book to the students, have students draw a picture using a drawing program on the computer of their favorite part of the story.  

Use oral reading strategies, such as picture walk, to introduce the book to students. While reading the book to students, discuss story with students and ask questions to check for understanding of story. 

Check for understanding before going on: (List four or more questions to ask students while reading the book.)

1. Is the tree a good friend?
2. Does the tree know how to make the boy feel better?                                                                                                          3. When the boy grows up, does he feel the same way towards the tree?
4. Do you think the tree was happy at the end of the story?
5. What made the tree the most happy?

Provide practice and feedback related to the primary learning outcomes:  Teacher will ask at least two critical thinking questions and take notes of students' answers for lesson assessment.

1. What do you think it means to be a friend?
2. How do friends treat each other?

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, The Giving Tree, using a computer drawing program.  Tteacher 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

Students will discuss their pictures and explain how they made their pictures in the drawing program to you.   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 use the mouse to control the computer to view the Paint Web page and to explore the drawing program.
Needs Improvement: Student is not able to use the mouse to control the computer to view the Paint Web page and to explore 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.
Needs Improvement: 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 has special needs from the conceptual factor information of your practicum class.  Describe the student in your class with special needs in two or more sentences.. (Do not use the student's real name.  You could refer to the student as "the special student.") 

      This special student has a problem with speech development. He also has a challenge in the area of attention deficit disorder. He is very bright and loves to help with the lesson.

2. Explain what you would add or change in this lesson plan to accommodate your special student? 
 
    

·          Break directions into smaller steps/segments, repeat verbal directions often.

Reflections:  (For Electronic Portfolio Standard #4 Multiple Instructional Strategies )
1. a. Describe and give examples of how your Paint lesson created learning experiences and activities that implemented a variety of instructional strategies.

    A. The children were able to listen to a story, demonstrate understanding of that story by answering critical thinking questions, and then were able to use the computer paint program with the mouse to draw a picture of their favorite part of the story.

    b. Describe and give examples of how your Paint lesson encouraged students' development of critical thinking and problem solving.

    A. The  students  were given opportunities to think about parts of the story that might not make sense at first. They seemed confused at first when the boy reappeared as a man, but after asking some very pointed questions, they seemed satisfied that the boy in the book was now the man.
    c. Describe and give examples of how students were engaged in learning and responded during your lesson.  Give specific examples of what the students did to show they were engaged in learning during your lesson.

     A. The students asked several very astute questions each both during the reading, and after the reading during the recap. They also made several guesses as to what would happen next while the story was being read.

2. Describe and give examples that illustrate how the students achieved each assessment of your lesson. 
Give the achievement level (satisfactory or unsatisfactory)  
List specific examples (as evidence) that illustrate how your students on each part of the lesson's assessment.
    A. Technology Integration:
Student assessed through observation while using the mouse to control the computer and using the drawing program.        
        Student One: Satisfactory: Was able to start the paint program with little or no prompting from the instructor. With minimal instruction was able to complete a picture using the paint program, and occasionally left computer to offer suggestions to the other student.
        Student Two: Satisfactory: Was able to start the paint program with minimal help from the instructor. With minimal instruction was able to complete a picture using the paint program, and also left her computer to offer suggestions to the other student.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

    B. Fine Arts:
Student assessed by the development of a picture using the drawing program.
        Student One: Satisfactory: Student used the paint program to create a work describing a scene from the book.
        Student Two: Satisfactory: Student used the paint program to create a work describing a scene from the book as well.
 

3. Describe what you would change or do differently if you taught this lesson again.  (Give specific examples)

I would attempt to teach this lesson in a room other than the library. The other students created a distraction, but this was compensated by redirection of the students' attention. 
 

Book Title & Author for Paint Project	The Giving Tree  by Shel Silverstein
Cover of Book
Critical Thinking Questions from Paint Lesson	1.  What do you think it means to be a friend? 2.   How do friends treat each other?

Answers & Comments to the Critical Thinking Questions by Students	1. Helping someone you like. 2. Being nice to each other and doing stuff to make each other feel better.
Picture from the Paint Lesson	Elementary Student's Paint Picture
Description of Picture & Comments by Student about their Picture	Description: The student used brown, green and purple to represent the branches the boy cut off of the tree to make his house. I think it is worth mentioning that the man is "hidden" and therefore invisible. This releived the student of the challenge of actually drawing the man in the branches. I think she did an excellent job!   Student Comments: This is a picture of the limbs the boy cut off to make his house. The leaves are green and the wood is brown and the apples are purple. You can't see the man because he is carrying the limbs.

Answers & Comments to the Critical Thinking Questions by Students	1. Being nice to people, like people you think are nice. 2. They give each other stuff to make them happy.
Picture from the Paint Lesson	Elementary Student's Paint Picture
Description of Picture & Comments by Student about their Picture	Description: This student also drew the man with the branches. She used several shades of green and brown to represent the branches. She drew the man in the middle of the pile in black, represented by the figure "8" shape toward the right center of the pile. She also signed her name with an "M". Also an excellent job!             I made a picture of the man leaving with the branches to make a house. He is in the middle of the limbs and stuff, and his arms are full.