Bandy's+final+project

Bandy's final project

I plan on doing my report on the Thunderbird which holds a cultural significance to the Native American people. I will give a background on this particular being and name some of the jobs or purposes it serves in the Native American culture. I have a very good legend about the Thunderbird and I want to incorporate that at the end of my presentation to further engage the children. Since there is quite a broad spectrum of what a Thunderbird looks like it leaves room for a rather interesting final assessment for the exercise. I would like the children to create a legend of their own about the thunderbird using the information that I have given them. The legend should be at least one page with one illustration. I will do my presentation on Voicethread.

The project will be worth a total of 10 points. Five points for the story and five points for the illustration. If the story is the full one page with a clear beginning, middle, and end then they will receive the full 5 points. To earn four points they will need to have at least 3/4 of a page with 2 of the 3 above mentioned sections. To earn three poins they need to have at least have a page with one of the characteristics listed above. Two points will be assigned for anything under a half page.

The illustration portion of the assessment is also worth five points. To earn the full five points the picture needs to hold elements of creativity and must have been worked on vigorously, it should show at least 3 special characteristics that make it a Thunderbird. Four points can be earned by having put creative thought into it and having at least two special characteristics of what makes it a thunderbird. Three points will be assigned if they show creativity and only have one distinguishing characteristics. Anything less will be assigned two points or less.

Characteristics can be defined as size, shape, color, special abilities or other some unique quality.

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This lesson is on a book that I would have the students read in class called touching spirit bear. It is a very good book especially for the kids that have a bit of a hard nosed background which is most children on the reservation. The lesson incorporates reading the book and then also designing their very own totem pole.

The assignment is worth a total of 20 pts, they get 1 pt for each section of the totem that they draw and then another point for each story they write to match the section. Since it is a self expression exercise I will give them a little leeway if they want to be creative in their approach to grammar and sentence context. This lesson is more about exploring their creative side and less on the grammatical spelling portion. They will need to justify their using of some artistical expression though it can't just be slapped together or done with half enthusiasm.

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My next lesson is going to be on Biology, I am going to do a virtual frog dissection with the students. I will start by first introducing them to the material by a brief overview of the different parts of the from in their Biology text book. My next step will be to then introduce them to an actual dissection taking place via youtube, here they can watch the actual video and take notes on it as we go along. After that I have found a free tutorial that will allow us to do our own virtual dissection of a frog all the way to the point to where we can identify the different organs inside of the animal.

The project that I would like them to do for my assessment will be to draw a picture of a dissected frog. Inside of the frog I would like them to identify and draw as many of the organs as possible. The organs I want identified are the heart, lungs, small intestine, large intestine, kidney, liver, stomach, pancreas, and gall bladder. The students will earn a point for each of the parts identified and then also one point for the completion of their drawing for a total of 10 pts. 10 pts = 100 %9 pts = 90%8 pts = 80%---7 pts = 70%---6 pts = 60 %

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This is a lesson plan that I had prepared for my Geometry course already, I just added it to a power point and then used slide share to share it with you. Hope this works out fine. Sorry I didn't realize I was logged into Sally's account on my last post, I logged out of here and then typed this on mine.