Directions: This table is intended to help you explicitly evaluate your options for selecting the best mix of pedagogy and technology to teach content. List the activity types you want to include in the lesson and 2-3 technology options that could work. Then list the affordances and constraints of each technology/activity type combination.
Activity Type
| Possible Technologies | Used for this content/With these kids | |
Affordances-benefits, value | Constraints-limitations | ||
Virtual Field trip- to show different environments in which people live | Google Earth
| Real life videos and pictures
| Only covers 2 senses (sight and sound) |
Slideshow of pictures
| Real footage
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Video Clips
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Survivor- have students choose few items to survive with | PwrPt to introduce unit
| Provide instructions
| Not very much interaction for the students |
Show video clip examples | Clear explanation given for project (good examples)
| Finding/making the videos and having it be exactly what I’m looking for | |
Make video, students show each other how they would live in various environments
| Lots of student participation | May not have all the props needed to make it more real | |
World Ecosystem Jeopardy | Computer- power point
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Picture Puzzle- show picture and student’s have to find out where it is
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Video with questions from real-life
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Scavenger Hunt | Google Earth
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Tourist paparazzi: Camera- “find something that…” and take picture
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Power Point
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Writing assignment- features of biome, fun things you could do there | Keep ecosystem blog
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Internet research- facts about ecosystem
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Skype with person in another ecosystem for hw assignment
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Research Portfolio | Internet Research about ecosystem
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Interview someone from ecosystem via Skype
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Keep info on Blog
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