Language Arts - Freshmen, Freshmen, Goose

Description of the Lesson

Overview

Created by Emily Iverson for the Nebraska ESUCC Digital Age Skills Project.  

Students will locate important ideas, identify a clear central idea/theme, understand view point, and build background knowledge by doing a Wild Goose Chase to as a review for a test.

ISTE Standard

Global Collaborator: Students use digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally.

NE Standard

LA 10.1.6.l Build background knowledge and activate prior knowledge to clarify text, deepen understanding, and make connections while reading complex text. 

Rubric Used for Assessment

NA

Example Student Artifact(s)

Student Example

Lesson Design Reflection

Lesson Design: 

HOOK/ATTENTION GETTER: 

Pose the question: Have you ever wondered how you could ever make studying more fun, well here’s your chance. We are going to have ipads, where you will have to follow the directions while actively moving throughout the school to answer questions to help you study for your test over Of Sounds Mind.

Students will go to the app “Wild Goose Chase” on the school’s ipad.

Once there, they will put in the code the teacher gives them. (The teacher has to come up with the questions)

Once the game is activated on the teacher’s computer, the students will submit their answers and the teacher is able to maintain an active feed on his/her end.

DIRECT INSTRUCTION: 

Students will go to the app “Wild Goose Chase” on the school’s ipad.

Once there, they will put in the code the teacher gives them. (The teacher has to come up with the questions)

Once the game is activated on the teacher’s computer, the students will submit their answers and the teacher is able to maintain an active feed on his/her end.

GUIDED PRACTICE:

Have students answer the questions for the review by doing a Wild Goose Chase which will allow students to use digital tools on an ipad, where the app is downloaded, to connect learners, examine issues and problems, explore local issues in the school, and finally effectively work toward a common goal: Review for their final test for Of Sound Mind by Jean Ferris.

Wild Goose Chase questions will be gone over before the students break out to answer the questions.

INDEPENDENT PRACTICE:

Students begin the race

They will have to submit the answers.

This should take about twenty minutes per group

Rubric-each question is worth 400 points. The active feed will reward each group the amount of points for submitting, finding the correct answer, then review the active feed at the end.

WRAP-UP:

Once the students are done, we will go over the answers to the question they just found the answers to by looking at the live feed. This will allow for children to explain why they chose the answers they did and collaborate with one another, while reviewing at the same time.