Kidspiration Lesson Plan
Grade 1
Katie R. Barry
Introduction
This lesson integrates a Social
Studies unit on community workers and the use of technology. Thus far, students have learned about the
general concept of communities and have been introduced to the fact that
community workers each have different jobs but work together so that the group,
as a whole, will succeed. Kidspiration is utilized to help students communicate their
understanding of how the community workers within the school work together to
help the school run successfully.
Students will use a digital camera and Kidspiration
to create a web showing how the community workers in our school are integral
parts of the day.
Kidspiration is an open-ended program that allows
students to generate, organize, and communicate their ideas. One feature of this program is the webbing
mode in which students easily create webs with the click of a few buttons. The picture mode of Kidspiration
will be used so that students can include the digital pictures they have taken
in their web. This lesson was created
with the assumption that students are already familiar with the basic mechanics
of using computers and Kidspiration. For students that are new to using Kidspiration, the teacher may want to demonstrate how to
properly use the different functions of the program as well as do a great deal
of modeling throughout the lesson.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
-
Successfully
create a web featuring five (5) community workers from the school
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Include
a digital photograph of each of the five (5) community workers
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Write
one (1) way that each worker helps our school run
Instructional Materials
o
Scavenger Hunt
worksheet designed by teacher to fit class’s needs
o
Computer
for each child
o
Digital
camera
o
Printer
o
Pencils
o
Custom-made
activity (if desired)
Procedure
Initiation (10
minutes)
o
Brainstorm
with children as many community workers as they can think of.
o
Underline
and group any workers they have named that work in schools.
Development of Lesson (2 lessons, 45 minutes each)
Lesson
1
o
Distribute
scavenger hunt packets to children and give directions.
o
Have
students go in small groups or as an entire class to find the places in the
scavenger hunt.
o
Have
students identify the worker(s) in each location and complete the pages. Students are encouraged to interview the
adults if necessary.
o
Using
the digital camera, take a picture of the community workers that work in each
location (secretary, custodian, nurse, librarian, teacher). Depending on group size and experience, you
may want to have the students get experience taking the pictures.
o
Upon
the completion of the scavenger hunt by all the students, discuss what they
found and compare answers. Did they all
list the same adults at each place? Did
they have different descriptions of the way each worker helps the community?
Lesson 2
o
Before
the lesson is begun, the digital pictures need to be imported into a library on
Kidspiration for students to use during the
activity. In addition, the difficulty
and length of the lesson can be varied with the following choices.
1. The teacher may use a custom made web for
students to fill in and complete.
2.
The teacher may just give students a blank page on Kidspiration
so that students must create and then fill in the web.
o
Using
the program, have students complete their webs.
For each worker, they should include a digital photo and a sentence
stating how that worker is important in the community.
o
Print
out students’ completed works.
Closure
o
Have
students share their webs.
Evaluation
Students can be evaluated using the
following:
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Informal
observation of the skills and strategies students use and any difficulties they
may have while creating their web.
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The
written work of each student can be assessed for evidence that students
understand what each worker does and the importance they have in the
school.
KBarry