Teacher Name:

Annette Lopez

Title of Learning Experience:

Click here to access the Global Warming Webquest

Part I – Learning Context

Purpose:

To prepare students on the topic of Global Warming by having them do research on the topic.

Objective:

To reinforce students’:

• cooperative learning skills,

• MS PowerPoint skills, and

• Oral presentation skills

Learning Standard:

Standard MST5: Technology

Students will apply technological knowledge and skills to design, construct, use, and evaluate products and systems to satisfy human and environmental needs.

Key Idea MST5.alt.CT3:

Computers, as tools for design, modeling, information processing, communication, and system control, have greatly increased human productivity and knowledge.

Standard MST4: Science

Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

Key Idea MST4.LE7:

Human decisions and activities have had a profound impact on the physical and living environment.

Performance Indicators:

Performance Indicator  MST5.alt.CT3A:

Students use the computer as a tool.

Performance Indicator  MST4.E.LE7A:

Students identify ways in which humans have changed their environments and the effects of those changes.

Major Understandings 7.1a

Humans depend on their natural and constructed environments.

Major Understandings 7.1b

Over time humans have changed their environment by cultivating crops and raising animals, creating shelter, using energy, manufacturing goods, developing means of transportation, changing populations, and carrying out other activities.

Major Understandings 7.1c

Humans, as individuals or communities, change environments in ways that can be either helpful or harmful for themselves and other organisms.

Part II – Assessment

Assessment Plan:

Students will be assessed via rubric on their PowerPoint presentation, cooperative learning skills, and oral presentation skills.

Part III – Student Work

Describe student work to be generated during this lesson.

Students will generate a PowerPoint slideshow and present their findings in class.

Part IV- Procedure

Mini-Lesson:

1. Teacher has the students write in their notebooks a KWL chart on Global Warming.

2. Teacher then write on the board some of the answers from the students.

3. Teacher will explain that the students will complete a Webquest.

4. Teacher will define the webquest as a way of students taking on a role and using the Internet to research information on a problem and provide solutions.

5. Teacher will show the website where the webquest in located.

6. Teacher will read through the Introduction, Task, Process, Evaluation and Conclusion.

7. Teacher will then divide up the students into groups.

Engagement:

Teacher will engage the students during the completion of the class KWL chart.

Independent Work:

Students work independently when they are filling out their KWL chart in their notebooks.

Group Work:

Students will work together in groups of three to complete the Webquest.

Technology Component:

PowerPoint, MS Word and the Internet

Part V – Resources

Student

Pencils, notebooks

Teacher

Projector, laptops, printer, jump drive, Internet access

Part VI – Instructional/Environmental Modifications

Instructional

none

Environmental

Teacher will need to make arrangements to sign out the laptops.

Part VII – Time Required

Time

4 – 45 minute sessions to complete the WebQuest.

2- 45 minute session for Oral presentations.