Here are a few lesson plan ideas. You can use these ideas and apply them to the subject area and grade level that you teach. These lesson plan ideas help show you how you can seamlessly incorporate technology into the curriculum. These ideas also illustrate how you can write your lesson plans so that you can get credit for more than one technology objective in your technology portfolio.
If you want to do a really comprehensive lesson plan that can cover up to 14 technology objectives, see Culminating Educational Technology Project. You might not use all of these objectives, but it will give you more ideas on how to write a lesson plan to get credit for several technology objectives.
In your lesson plans, write in bold at the top of the page the technology objectives that are satisfied within your plan. This is necessary so that reviewers of your technology portfolio will be able to identify and give you credit for the correct technology objectives.
To look at some lesson plans that are online, see Lesson
Plans. You would have to adapt these lesson plans and then determine
which technology objective your plan satisfies.
Lesson Plan 1
Cooperative distance learning project. Students could be given a number of assignments in which they work in cooperative groups on a local level and then work with one or more classroom group of students on the same project. The communication between the groups of classes could be audio or videoconferencing (like CUSeeMe software). Students might have to work on a specific problem and find solutions to the problem (such as pollution, social problems, the national deficit, crime, or whatever).
Because this project uses active student involvement and cooperative
learning, it will count for Tech. obj. 12.5.
Because you are utilizing videoconferencing, it will also count for
Tech. obj. 12.6.
You could include the use of more technologies in this project, such as having students scan pictures, create a PowerPoint presentation or HyperStudio program, and the project will also count for Tech. obj. 12.7.
You could include a drawing of the classroom setting, showing placements of desks, chairs, tables, and technology equipment and explain how it supports active learning using technology. This would allow you to count your lesson plan for Tech. obj. 12.4.
You could list the computer/technology skills that students would learn
or reinforce during this lesson and list those those skills that correlate
to the technology skills for your grade level. This would give you
credit for Tech. obj. 10.4.
For some lesson plans similar to Lesson 1, see the following sites:
Lesson Plan 2
Using TV for instruction. You could write a lesson plan utilizing TV in some way. There are several examples on the Internet that you could use for ideas. Students could watch a particular TV program and do a variety of activities as follow up. Writing a lesson plan using TV for instructional purposes satisfies Tech. obj. 10.2.
During the follow-up activities, you could have students use various technologies to give a report or presentation on what they learned. Students could use scanners or digital cameras to capture pictures and either write a magazine article using desktop publishing with illustrations or put their information and pictures in a PowerPoint or HyperStudio program. Using several technologies will satisfy Tech. obj. 12.7 as well.
You could list computer skills learned or reinforced and correlate computer skills for your grade level with subjective objectives and you could also count this lesson for Tech. obj. 10.4.
Lesson Plan 3
Locate and analyze information. In this lesson plan, you give students a topic to learn about and direct them to a number of electronic sources to find this information. You could have some really good educational software for them to explore (be sure to specify the software in your lesson plan and include a short review). You could have them go to an encyclopedia on CD or they could go to the Internet. If students go to the Internet, you'll have to decide if they can use search engines to find their own sources of information or if you want to give them more direction. A good way of handling this problem would be to create a web page with a list of Internet addresses (URLs) that you have already checked out and have students go to them. You would have to decide what they are to do with this information they read. They need to communicate the results of what they found in some way: write a report, do a presentation.
This lesson plan on locating and analyzing information and communicating results satisfies Tech. obj. 12.1.
Again, if you add the use of more technologies, such as scanners, PowerPoint, desktop publishing, spreadsheets, etc., then you could use this plan for Tech. obj. 12.7 as well.
Correlate computer skills with subject matter objectives in your lesson
plan and you get credit for Tech. obj. 10.4.