ED+604+Ipod+Lesson

 Media and Technology A.8.4 Use a computer and communications software to access and transmit information – access information using a network connection to the Internet or other on-line information service Information and Inquiry B.8.6 Interpret and use information to solve the problem and answer the question – draw conclusions to address the problem or question Independent Learning C.8.4 Demonstrate self-motivation and increasing responsibility for their learning – participate in decisions about group project and learning objectives Learning Community D.8.1 Participate productively in workgroups – collaborate with others to identify information and seek solutions English Language Arts 3-5 Select and use listening, reading, viewing, and thinking strategies and techniques – Apply word meaning and word analysis to access and understand unknown words Make informed, logical, and ethical decisions based on a variety of perspectives – recognize multiple perspectives and apply criteria to make judgments among them Create, organize, revise and publish text – create focused text that conveys ideas clearly Geography A.8.1 Use a variety of geographic representations; maps, globe, satellite images; to gather and compare information about a place. A.8.2 Construct mental maps of selected regions from memory, representing direction, size, and location. · Define new vocabulary · Explain characteristics of hemispheres · Name and locate reference points on globes · Number and locate parallels and meridians · Use latitude and longitude to locate places on the Earth · Globes/maps of the world · Computers with internet · <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">iPods - 15 <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Social Studies Book for reference <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Google Earth application <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Dictionary application <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Journal to write in
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Title: **<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> Where in the World Are We?
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Subject Areas: **<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Technology, English Language Arts, Geography – Grade 5
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Time Frame **<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: 1 week
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">State Standards Addressed **<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[] <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; color: black; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Unit Plan Objectives **<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">: The students will use an iPod and resources to assist them with the following -
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Materials Needed: **

<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Parallels <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Meridians <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Latitude <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Longitude <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Hemisphere <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Prime Meridian <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Equator <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Assumed ( previous lessons on how to operate an iPod) <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Select work groups for this week’s project. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Using your iPod, find the dictionary application and define the new vocabulary words for this lesson using the correct meaning of the word. Write the word and definition in your Geography notebook. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will need to practice with the globes and maps locating their new vocabulary. Teacher will direct the class to specific words and as teams, locate the term on the globe and Geography maps. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Students will need to locate the hemispheres on the Earth and explain in writing where they are found. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">After each work group can identify and explain each term, they will be asked to draw a picture of the Northern and Western Hemisphere. After the picture is drawn, you may use a resource to label latitude and longitude lines. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Write down the names of ten places in North America including your own community. List cities, countries, states, or lakes. Locate each place on a globe or map and find the approximate latitude and longitude of each place. Record your answers on your record sheet. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Use your iPod Touch application called Google Earth to find your exact location. Remember to record the degrees and hemispheres. Write the information on your record sheet in the correct column. Compare your results – approximation versus Google Earth. What happened? Was your estimation too high or too low or right on? Justify your response in your journal and be complete. You will discuss your results with the class. 1. Journal writing <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Bookman Old Style'; msobidifontfamily: 'Bookman Old Style'; msolist: Ignore;">1. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Participation in work group – rubric for group work <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Bookman Old Style'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Bookman Old Style'; msobidifontfamily: 'Bookman Old Style'; msolist: Ignore;">2. <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Check list for completing each piece of the assignment - work in progress
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">New Vocabulary: **
 * <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Procedures for Unit: **
 * Assessment or Evaluation:**


 * Worksheet 1

Name of Work Group Approximation versus Google Earth - Latitude and Longitude**

Directions: Using classroom resources, fill in the chart. Remember to use degrees What is the latitude and longitude of your location? 1 || || || 2 || || || 3 || || || 4 || || || 5 || || || 6 || || || 7 || || || 8 || || || 9 || || || 10 || || || <span style="text-align: center; line-height: 115%; display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;">Compare your results. How accurate were you? What happened with your answers? Justify your answers in your journal. You will share your results with the class.
 * What location in North America? || Approximation || Actual Measurements ||

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