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=​Names:= Yinora Varela Tabitha Quinones Corrine Mojica

Standard #1 NYS Standard
Students will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, students will collect data, facts and ideas, discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and use knowledge generated from oral, written, and electronically produced texts. As speakers and writers, they will use oral and written language to acquire, interpret, apply, and transmit information.

Comprehending and Evaluating Texts Students will apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They will draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features.
 * National Standards for Language Arts Grades K-12 **

Select information appropriate to the purpose of their investigation and relate ideas from one text to another.
 * Performance Indicator**


 * APA Citation:**
 * 1) Mc Dermott, Laurie; Murry, Julie (2000) __A Study of the Effective Use and Integration of Technology into the Primary Curriculum__ Saint Xavier University and Sky Light Professional Development: Chicago, Illinois (ERIC Document Reproduction Services No. 3411K) ED 445 669 – The report details a plan to integrate technology into first and second grade classrooms.the students have the ability to increase in their learning skills.
 * 2) Richards, J. Scott (1992) __Preventing Injury: A Safety Curriculum Grades 1 and 2__ Alabama University: Santa Cruz, CA (ERIC Document Reproduction Services No. ED 358 074 – The report focuses on the prevention of spinal cord and traumatic brain injury. Its purpose is to help students understand cause and affect relationships and safety principles. the incorporation of the children in which they gin the understanding of cause and effects due to spinal cord/ traumatic brain injury, in which they gain safety principles.
 * 3) N/A (1983) Salud/ Servicios Personales, Libro del Profesor (Health/ Personales, Services, Teacher's Guide) Mid Hudson Migrant Education Center: New Paltz, New York (ERIC Document Reproduction Services No. ED 271 242 – The guide consists of a first grade career education curriculum that was developed for migrant students. The activities in the student work book are intended to help students develop skills of classification, which include distinguishing between cause and effect. The students will be able to incorporate the learning curriculum based on developing learning skills.
 * 4) N/A (1983) __Health/ Personal Services, B2 CHOICE: Challenging Options in Career Education__ Mid-Hudson Migrant Education Center: New Paltz, New York (ERIC Document Reproduction Services No. ED 248 093) – The guide focuses on health and personal services occupations in the first grade curriculum. The activities are designed to help students develop skills in classification, which include distinguishing between cause and effect. these activities are intended to help students to develop better skills in all there learning activities/skills.


 * Lesson Plans:**


 * 1) Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts about Natural Disasters Read Write Think Lesson Plan — This lesson is very good recognize relationships between cause and effect
 * 2) Because I'm Big and Bad! Lesson Planet Lesson Plan Martha Todd Santa Rosa District Schools Students use //The Three Little Pigs// and //The Three Wolves and the Big Bad Pig// — to identify cause-effect relationships. — With the lessons students will be able to see and compare how multiple stories resolve cause and effect
 * 3) Anansi and the Pot of Beans By Bobby and Sherry Norfolk. the identity stories and folk tale with cause and effect.
 * 4) Cloudy with a chance of meatballs teachers.net lesson plan Draby Shawna Smoker (rvfh@grove.iup.edu). Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
 * 5) Causes and Effects of Motion [|www.//lims.ode.stateoh.us/ODE/IMS/Lessons/content/CSC_LP_SO3_BB_L01_I06_01.PDF]

These lessons are good because they address all the skills that the students will need to further comprehend the story being read. They will help them figure out the outcome,connections and relationships between characters and situations happening in the story. each lesson is based on cause and effect, the understanding with in the lesson plans, lessons and activity. the stories and folk tales, in which readers will combine colorful activities. the cause and effects will help the children develop skills in which can benefit defining each topic. the children will be able to identify and compare the story to their understanding.

__**Online Collaborative Writing Assignment**__


 * Group Definition of blog:** A blog is a website which detail information, based on one person to many, rather than many to one.Blogs are continuously updated. In a blog a person can post more than one sentence, its proper usage is based on many subject, news, as well as web page information. people can also post comments.

EDU 20+ teacher teaching teachers is based on working together with motivation between teacher and student. the developing knowledge within the teacher and student to create a bond leadership to improve students in their work through the use of the web pages, blogs, and wikis.

EDU 20+ Teach 42: adapting to new generations material and experiences. we also must adapt to new learning experiences in the classroom.The change of the school adapting to new daily technology,the children in today's education as well as there technology has completely changed the information as well as the people need to be updated with the same information in order to be on the same page.

Tim Fredricks Ela teaching blogs: Motivation is not the problem: the motivation of buying teachers vs students is not the way to fix the educational problems within the school system.


 * Group Definition of wiki:** is a website base for teacher centered devices. Wiki was created in ordered for student to post, upload as well as edit their own work. the information in which people are able to post comments back and forth. Wikis are better for teachers to view students work and not have to carry paper work around.

Scholastic-is a website where you can find important information for classwork activities as well as in homework activities to prepare from.

Nea lesson plans- this website was created for teachers to find information as well as lesson plans.

Kathy Schrock- this website was created in order for teachers in which teaching and learning can be used with in the curriculum.

Scholastic, Nea, and Schrock are mentioned here based on the different types of wikis which can be used to help student and teachers with uploading there material.

Wikis and/ or web blogs can be used in our lesson plans based on uploading students work and creating / editing there work in order for them to interact within one another, the class, as well as the teachers demands. it also helps the students with the ability to increase there experiences with technology **Yinorah Varela, Corrine Mojica, Tabitha Quinones** December 4th, 2009
 * How could Wikis and/or Web blogs be used in your lesson plan?**
 * LESSON:**

Grade: 1st Topic - Cause and Effect
 * Subjec**t: English Language Arts

Goals: Aims/Outcomes- Using If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as a base reference text, students will practice and understand the concepts of cause and effect. As well as become familiar with vocabulary in the text...Mouse, Cookie, Milk.... Objectives- - Use recollection and analysis to identify cause-effect relationships - Students will be able to practice critical thinking skills by predicting what will happen next. - Demonstrate knowledge of text by re-telling the story using sentence fragments

Materials and Aids - - If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff - bag of cookies - full jar of M & M's - set of dominoes - computer game and activities from the story - for independent practice: toy soldiers, markers, clay, erasers,pencils, pipe cleaners

Lesson Procedure and Development: Mini-Lesson consisting of active modewling of different relationships highlighting CAUSE AND EFFECT, prior to read aloud of IF YOU GAVE A MOUSE A COOKIE, by Laura Joffe Numeroff
 * Procedures/Methods**-
 * A. Introduction**-

Students will complete a worksheet which will be a miniature version of the story. They will have to cut out the pages to create their own book. For this they will have to recall how things occured in the story. This will provide the teacher with the opportunity to assess if the student acquired the concept being thaught by making connections of cause and effects. For homework students should use the worksheet and retell the story to a parent/guardian (have worksheet signed).
 * Evaluation-**

By observing the students working independently, while at the same time discussing with their fellow students' events from the story, the teacher will walk around taking notice and listening to see if the students understood the skills that were taught throughout the lesson.
 * Teacher Reflection**:


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 * Test Questions**

Home New York State testing program. English Language Arts test book. 3rd grade. Jan. 12-16, 2009