lesson_spiders

=Names:= Marissa Amendolaro Kelly Witkowski Flor Tuero

Standards:

 * **New York State** – Ele. Sci. S4. 4.1e and 4.1f and 4.2b
 * **New York City** – S2b
 * **National** – TABLE 6.3. LIFE SCIENCE STANDARDS]

=**AIM** : Life Cycle of Spiders “Can you imagine spiders taking over the world” =
 * Uploaded Lesson Plan:**

Standards
NYS ELE SCI S4 1e and 4 1f and 4.2b
 * 41E each generation of animals go through changes in form from young to adult. This completed sequence of changes in form is called a life cycle. Some insects change from egg to lava to pupa to adult.
 * 41f each kind of animal goes through its own stages of growth and development during its life span
 * 42b food supplies the energy and materials necessary for growth and repair

Overall Purpose

 * Have the students understand the life cycle of spiders.


 * Have students present their findings to the class with a written assignment and a group poster


 * Objectives**
 * Knowledge of the four stages of the life cycle of spiders
 * Show an understanding of different kinds of spiders
 * Being able to comprehend the body parts of spiders

Materials Needed
= Magazines, computers, books, posterboard, markers, crayons= For this one-week lesson divide class into four groups, have them research their topics and give a report on their findings.


 * The four group topics are:**
 * Characteristics of spiders
 * Life cycle of spiders
 * Fun facts
 * Folklore about spiders


 * Introduction to spiders
 * Open discussion
 * Reading comprehension with Q and A
 * Break students up into groups of five
 * Hand out Spiders KWL sheet
 * Hand out spider report planner
 * Have each group complete the first part of the handout


 * Have students watch PBS video on spiders
 * Break up into their groups and work on their presentations
 * Have students complete the labeling of spider handout

Day Three

 * Have students write facts that they have learned over the past two days on the spider handout


 * Have group’s work on their posters and hand written portions of their presentation

Day Four

 * Students will present their group projects and hand in their written reports

Reflection

 * Review of all that we have learned this week about spiders. Have students complete the crossword puzzle on spiders and complete the spiders kwl what I have learned.

**Homework** Students will write a short story on what would happen if spiders took over the world. ] [insert text here]
 * Lesson Plan Summary:**

Lesson Plan Template Source:
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 * Why did your group choose this specific format for your template?

Videos:

 * PBS KIDS GO! – FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman (Spinning Tales with Spiders)
 * The Giant Bug Invasion

> **Article Summary:** [This Document is very helpful when writing a lesson plan, it helps you get an idea of where you want to start. it gives you a step by step guide line of the lesson. The resources they provided helped me think of different ideas to bring out my points in a fun learning way. such as using an overhead projector, making a PowerPoint or if i am lucky enough to have a smart board in my room I can use that for multiple learning way. Another part I found helpful is the Instruction and Activities " Before reading, During reading and after reading" During the reading something I will use is draw attention to the fly and to bring up the importance of the fly and why. that is important. one reason why this part caught my eye is because i read this story to my group of student in the daycare and i never thought to talk to them the importance of the fly and if i did i know i would get good responses back. > **Article Summary:** > **Article Summary:**
 * ERIC article summaries and APA Citation:**
 * 1) **APA Citation:** Campbell, A. (2003) Did You Say Spiders? No. ED 480 627
 * 1) **APA Citation:** Carr, Gail(1996) **//__Coyote and Spider__//**. No. ED442166 **[No full text, how can you read it?]**
 * 1) **APA Citation:** Eagan, Ann (1996) **//__Spiders and Worms and Crawlers, Oh My.__//** No. ED403896 **[Again, no full text]**

**Lesson Plans:**
> **Lesson Plan Summary:** This lesson plan will work very well for the aim we picked it breaks down the lesson plan in 7 different units and It has all the key points I would want to teach the children. Some of the activity are fun and hands on for the children. something i thought was fun for the children that we would incorporate into our lesson is the activity for the book "Spiders Lunch" By Joanna Cole. In this activity children will learn the different types of webs spiders can make by looking at pictures and recreating a web with yarn as a group by taking the yarn and wrapping it around them. The children will get a kick out of their web they have created, they also will be learning how to work together in this activity. I like the fact in this lesson plan the month they are doing the topic about spiders, October is a perfect time for obvious reasons the title says it all. > **Lesson Plan Summary:** [this lesson plan is a little dry, but it is still helpful in many ways. It gave me an idea of how to start the lesson to get the students attention; which is by singing a song about spiders before we start our topic of spiders to sing this song to make sure the children are focused. I also like the idea of having the children form Scientific Theory. Depending on the grade level of the class the question will vary ] > **Lesson Plan Summary:** This article is mentioned in the first APA article, In this lesson plan I like the concept of "I wonder" questions about the book we will use this in our lesson plan because it giving the children a chance to use there imagination ] > **Lesson Plan Summary:** This lesson plan link elaborates important ideas and different guide lines that children will need to learn about bugs (spiders] > **Lesson Plan Summary:** [|Edible Spiders] > **Lesson Plan Summary:** This lesson plan link is a fun eigh-legged treat that children will love to eat. this lesson plan activity includes all the necessary materials and guided steps in order to create an edible spider.
 * 1) **Lesson Plan Link**: Spooky Spiders and Wacky Webs
 * 1) **Lesson Plan Link**: Spiders and Scientific Theory
 * 1) **Lesson Plan Link**: Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
 * 1) **Lesson Plan Link**: [|2.ed.gov./bugs.htmsinsert]
 * 1) **Lesson Plan Link**: [|www.pbskids.org]

Assessment Questions
24.Which sequence shows the life cycle of some insects? A adult → pupa → larva → egg B egg → pupa → larva → adult C larva → pupa → egg → adult Degg → larva → pupa → adult
 * Regents spring 2008 grade 4 **

**Group Definition of Educational Blogs:**
[ These educational blogs are important because they give us a better understanding of how other teachers create lesson plans. It is important to be creative and keep the students interested. There are so many different blogs to research and so much information to discover.]

Edublogs
Marissa Amendolaro > This is about a new math 10 curriculum created by McGraw- Hill Ryerson, it opened up with what is called foldables. This is a booklet that the children make, where the children can take notes on what they have learned in the chapter. This is a good study guide at the end of the chapter. It organizes the material the children have to learn. I thought this was great and thought it should be done with every curriculum not just for math. Something simple as a foldable can be very helpful for children who need better organization and a place to put the important materials instead of viewing the textbook where everything can be overwhelming. There is a **wikispace for foldables**. Very useful site for all teachers for every curriculum. This new curriculum takes the 9 chapters that should be taught within the year and put into four units. The children are able to see exactly what they will be taught in a clear and understandable manner. As new teachers you are faced with a lot of new problems. You don’t know where to start. What do I teach and who do I teach it to? How do I pace myself? This caught my eye because as a new teacher you don’t know how much time you should spend on a certain topic. This new curriculum Textbook Pacing chunked the 9 chapters into 4 units. I feel that this way of teaching the units is better, because, you have a guide line of what you are going to teach within the units. This is very different from when I was in school; the teacher just when from chapter to chapter everything was confusing and overwhelming. This new curriculum seems more focused and organized. What I like most about this is that there are different materials for this math curriculum, where the students can go on adobe and have a digital textbook at home. Looking at a sample textbook page, it didn’t look like the normal small print boring textbooks. They were colorful; there is one section on the introduction page where it will suggest a real life career topic, where the curriculum math 10 would be used to solve math problems. I thought that part was great because, every student including myself, always asking myself what am I doing this for; will it be useful to me when I get older. I thought it was pointless to learn the Pythagorean Theorem, but maybe by writing where you can use this theory in a career, it would be interesting. The new technologies that are being brought into the classrooms today are interesting, and full of fun ways to learning. Something else I found helpful for me as an upcoming teacher, are a few websites called [], [] These are two websites that you are able to keep as bookmarks in any area where you can locate them on any computers. Thus, if you need a bookmark and you are at work, you are able to locate it. You are able to view other people’s links in the category that you are searching for. It saves a lot of time when searching the web looking for links. This video was interesting it illustrated the new technologies that are rising within the classroom. **[I love foldables! Keep in mind that this blog is way out in western Canada, so the math standards could be quite different.]** > He teaches math through blogging and smart boards. As I watched the video right away it made me think of what we have been doing in this class and what blogging is capable of achieving through out the blogging world. Darren talked about how his class takes full control over blogging. It is done in his class and he uses something called Class scribes. He has each student one day at a time take turns writing in the textbook what was done in class that day, so if a child was absent they would be able look at what was written in order to catch up. That student who wrote the textbook now calls on another student to write the notes for the next day. What I liked about this method is that the children are doing this themselves, of course, with some help when needed from the teacher.Technology is forever changing, it is very different from when I went to school; we had to sit there with the textbook and read in class and at home. If you didn’t understand the material during the lesson there was not much more that you can do just hope that the lesson would be repeated or re-viewed What I liked about this blog is that it is being shared around the world with other students. Students are able to go to this site and comment on certain things, get help with something they are not clear about and look at all the other students’ scribes. This site can open children’s minds as well as help them communicate with other children across the world and share information. Darren Kuropat made a comment in the blog where he used the example for medical students which I agree with. This rule applies to everyone no matter the profession. They were taught something first a few times just by watching, and then finally getting to do the procedure themselves. However it is not considered learning the procedure until they teach it to someone else. Children understand what is being taught to them and they will pass the test, yet, they don’t realize how well they know the material until they teach it to someone else.
 * **Name & Web Address:** A Difference
 * Article #1: New Math 10 Curriculum
 * **Article #2:** I’ve Got 5 Minutes
 * ]

Kelly Witkowski > As I researched the edublogs the NYC educator caught my eye. As I began reading some of the postings, I found myself not being able to stop. They were all written by teachers and some of the things that were said I could relate to. I liked the fact that it is a place were teachers can express there opinions and use the blog to put information about there schools out there for all to see. There was an article about the school closing in Jamica and how decisions were made to get the school to that point. This blog was funny, informative, and interesting. One of my favorite posts was the one about how fast administrators forget that they were once teachers. All adminastrators should read it and maybe get a grip on their power and remeber the main reason we are educators, The Children… > I really got a kick out of the article about how charter schools continue to open with all the latest techhnology while public schools are closing down one after another. It stated that Bloomberg said that we can not continue to keep the failing schools open for nastalgic reasons. What a load of nonsence. It is all about money! The mayor is not thinking about all the other issues that come with closing down schools. And people can talk until they are blue in the face the fact stands that money talks and with out it you have no say. So who cares what the, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens want or have to say. I'm the mayor and I can do what I want. (is what he really wanted to say.)
 * **Name & Web Address:** NYC Educator
 * **Article #1:** Save Jamaica High School
 * **Article #2:** Pretend there Charter schools.

Flor Tuero > As I visited many of the edublogs, the 50 education blogs was the one that cought my eyes. The You-Tube, CNN, Google videos and annimated cartoons shows a clear and detail description on how to access to many of the free technology for teachers. The free technology for teachers also offers many links to download free technology lesson plans. As I continued watching on the goolgle videos, I learned many of the different ways of searching for a specific word search. In google, The Wonder Wheel is a different option when using google search tool. I used the wonder wheel at my school to show a student a different option when we were searching for a topic. Since we were studying all about insects, he was a bit confused between an insect and a bug. Therefore, we used the wonder wheel to search among the difference of these two terms. When he typed in the term "insect", I then guide him to click on the "+ SHOW OPTIONS" link menu. follow to this, I istructed him to click on the "WONDER WHEEL" link menu as well. He was first surprise to see all the insect pictures, I read to him how each branch of web contained a related search about the term insects. We then typed in the term bugs, and we noticed that a new web generated and linked it to the original wed. The student was able to see and understand that the wonder wheel showed him connection between terms. > > As future educators, it is important that we have to be aware of the decisions that congress is making regarding the children education, and also how these decisions will affect us as future educators. The second article that copught my attention on the edublogs was about The Washington Post article of President Barack Omaba's new proposal of the Revise No Child Left Behind NCLB. Obama's 41-page new Blueprint reforms indicates a new proposal, not only to renovate a flawed law, but also the re-envension of the federal role in education. According to Obama's proposal, all students would still continue be tested in every subject area. The results will determined and measure the students progress in their accademic skills. The proposal calls for higher standards and more sophisticared test developed as well. The state law requires to appoints annual benchmarks towards a goal of 100% students proficiency in reading and math by 2014. Therefore, it will still requires the child to beging testing at 3rd. grade thrugh 8th. grade, and only once during student's high school. However, these new standards will affect textbooks, curriculums, and teacher's training across the nation. []
 * **Name & Web Address:** Free Technology for Teachers
 * **Article #1:** Google Wonder Wheel in Action
 * **Edublog #2:** Successful Teaching


 * Group Definition of educational Wikis:**

Wiki is a website that allow us to work on creating, adding, and editing important information gathered from internet sources. It also allows us to copy and paste web links, book articles, test questions, and lesson plan templates.


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**How does your group envision incorporating educational technologies in your classrooms?**
[The use of technology in today's 21st century has became an essential tool in many schools and students learning. As a group, we all agree that the use of technology in classrooms is one of the most important learning tool. Using techology in classrooms also give us the opportunities as educators to teach student how to easily access important documents that students can download and use them for homewwork assignments as well. Furthermore, incorporating technology in classrooms also gives teachers the opportunity to search for new ideas, great support, and necessary tools that we can implement in our teaching lessons. We can also incorporate current events into our lesson plans. In one of our worshop class, professor Lewis provided a list of online news stories that can be use as a helpful tool. For example: Newseum, Stateline.org, Globalvoices, The Journalist's Toolbox, J-lab, and newser.

As a group, we chose these following links to learn more about how can we implement them into our classrooms. 7 Things You Should Know About. [] Google Apps. [] Top 50 blogs for e-learning. []

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