Let's+Do+Some+Reading!

__//**Lesson #2**//__

__**Grade Level:**__ Kindergarten

__**Unit:**__ Plants and Animals

__**Assignment type:**__ Reading About Plants and Animals

__**Lesson objectives: **__  __Title of lesson :__    **  __**//Reading is Groovy and We Can Make a Movie! //**__
 * Student will understand key words that are related to plants and animals.This includes a description of the plant/animal, the names of the habitats that they survive in and animals enemies, prey and allies and an understand of the meaning of those terms.
 * Student will be able to comprehend the habitats of plants and animals, the difference between indoor and outdoor plants/animals and what is necessary for living things to survive through reading a variety of genre of books.
 * Student will learn to read about plants or animals and identify various similarities and differences between species within that category.
 * Students will be able to locate the various points of view "good and bad" of certain plants and animals within our environment.
 * __Time required to complete this lesson: __    **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">1-2 days to introduce the lesson. This includes group discussion and teaching of similarities and differences, affects of plants/animals in the environment as well as learning and understanding the various types of species.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">1 day to introduce the reading material that will increase student knowledge.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Class discussion on how these books are important, what was learned from them and any common themes found between them.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">2 class sessions to have the students brainstorm on different views that humans may have on a chosen species. Good and bad of horses, cows, pigs, dandelions, cacti, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">1 class session to collect facts that can be used to create a video. These facts must be on both sides of the spectrum and should stream from a question. (What do farmers feel cows to do help their farm? Do farmers feel that cows hurt their farm in any way?)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">2 class sessions to gather images and music that could be used to tell a story of these facts and to then put together 2 Animoto films about what the students learned and what facts they feel are important.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> __**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Resources/materials needed: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 13.2pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> __**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Description of lesson: **__ Lesson will begin with discussion of what similarities and differences are. These will be written on chalkboard or chart pad that can be referred back to at a later class period. Teacher should introduce the reading material that will increase the children's knowledge. This should be done as a whole class so that important facts can be pointed out and all students will understand. Students will understand the different themes among the books that were read and then discuss these in class. Students will then brainstorm on the different views that society has about the information that was read. (Relate back to the discussion about similarities and differences). In addition, teacher should provide students with examples of these views and how they would relate to the topics of each child. Once student has collected these facts/views the class should discuss for each student these views. This includes the importance of the species (that they chose) in the environment, why many people think that this particular species is good or bad and the facts that we found to help understand why these are the views that people have. Establish an understanding of what we mean when we say "opposing views" and why it is that different people have different views, yet all opinions are still important. Students will then take these facts and create a video that shows both sides of the views on their chosen species (remember this can be on a plant or animal as long as they understand the "good" and "bad" views that people hold). Teacher will guide students into finding images and music that represent the point that they are trying to make. This gives a large window of opportunity for students to be imaginative in finding images that are appropriate for their particular view. Make sure that students are only provided with acceptable websites for images to be chosen from to avoid any copyright issues. Teach students about what copyright is and what we need to do when we are using someone's work. Then students will create their digital videos and present them to the class. Class will then discuss the meaning behind each student's video and why it is important. Students will note what they feel the view is of each video and it will be discussed in class. Refer back to the similarities and differences to see what videos are alike and vice versa.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">White/chalkboard to allow for student discussion
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Reading material that students will use to create understanding. (Please refer to previous lessons to locate reading materials that are appropriate for this lesson, these books have already been read by teacher with students and can be used again for the following lesson)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Notebook paper and pencil for students to write down facts they had found.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Internet and provided websites for students to search for images that represent their topic.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Provide the students with websites for students to collect music that can be used with their video.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Animoto website for students to generate their digital movies.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Assignment (homework or in-class): ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> __ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Below is an example of what the students will be creating with the facts that were found. Each video represents //a different// view. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 13.2pt;"> media type="custom" key="4557486" //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 121%;">Students will discuss and answer the questions posed in this video. What did the students learn from the video? Is this a good view or a bad view?What facts can we locate within the slides? (What plants need to survive) //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> media type="custom" key="4557674" <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 121%;">//Students will discuss the images in this video as well. What perspective was this video focused on? What are the key facts that we can find within the video? Is this a good view or a bad view?// //<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 121%;">(What things in the environment hurt or kills plants) //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">

__**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Technology used: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 13.2pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Animoto is a great website that allows students to find their creative side. This site allows you to upload photos of your choice, include text as well as music and generates a digital movie through the images and music that you submitted. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 115%;">Students just need to be careful on the work that they are using. It can only be used for educational purposes to avoid any issues with copy writing. Students can even upload their own pictures that they have taken in addition to the photos that the website has available for use. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">__The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way:__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 13.2pt;">  ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 12pt;">The technology greatly enhances learning in various ways. It allows the students to find images that relate to their written meaning and create their own movie with the click of a button. It allows the teacher to explore the child's creativity by giving them the freedom to create these movies. It gives the students a change in pace for how they are learning material. Not only are they reading books, but they get to collect facts and then search for images that they feel represent those particular facts. Creating a digital movie provides students with the freedom to use their imagination while learning at the same time. The teacher can view how the child feels that certain information should be expressed and gets to be hands on with the students learning as well.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Music in digital media (Animoto) //examples// were taken from:** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 121%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Free Music Play <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> at @http://www.freeplaymusic.com/.
 * __<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Please Note: __**
 * Photos in digital media (Animoto) //examples// were from:** <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 121%;">Image*After <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;"> at @http://www.imageafter.com/ as well as on Animoto which were images that were on the website for use in their media productions.