FINAL+PROJECT

**__Identify the following which must be included in your lesson:__**


 * Name of Lesson/Topic
 * Essential Questions
 * State frameworks: Content, Literacy, & Technology
 * What will your objectives be - content objectives, literacy objectives, and technology objectives?
 * How will assess student outcomes?
 * What activities will you plan to achieve expected outcomes?
 * What strategies will you embed in the activities to help students reach the lesson objectives?
 * Are you integrating 21st Century skills and/or technology in your lesson?
 * Can you find any extremely engaging material (such as a virtual tour or experience) on the web related to your unit that might be useful?
 * Where will the space for inquiry be made? In other words, at what point in the lesson will you allow students to follow an area of interest within your given topic?
 * When do you plan to teach this lesson?

Title: Beebe CSL Project/The Origami Project Essential Question: ﻿Can 8th grade students collaborate and communicate using 21st Century Skills? Can they use these skills to educate themselves on a topic while at the same time reaching out to help a community on the the other side of the world?

Outcomes and Assessments: The students in my classes worked on 21st century skiills and created origami cranes to raise money for Japan. I used a rubric to assess whether they completed a number of tasks. Since this was their first go round with most 21 century skills, the rubric was very general and can be provided at a later date. It was a simple checklist of 21st Century Skills and whether or not they were completed. The rubric/checklist also included an area with feedback.

Mass State Frameworks: Content, Literacy, and Technology: This standard: •focuses on applying a wide range of technology tools to student learning and everyday life; •aims to ensure that students will be able to use technology to process and analyze information; •is to help students develop skills for effective technology-based communication; •includes the use of technology to explore and create new ideas, identify trends, and forecast possibilities; and •aims to provide students with an awareness of how technology is used in the real world.
 * //Technology: Standard 3. Demonstrate the ability to use technology for research, critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.//**
 * //History://** Although the WH1 Frameworks does briefly mention Japan, there is nothing that comes close to mentioning origami or tsunamis or the like.

My Objectives : Students will: 1) Learn of the devastating effects of the tsunami. 2) Learn the history and practice of origami. 3) Raise money to help the tsunami victims. 4) Learn and put into practice the following 21st Century Skills; Create a Wikispace, Wordle, Wallwisher, Google Maps, embedding a Youtube video.

Strategies/Activities :This is an account of The Origami Project. I explained how to do the following in class with the tv and Internet. I may have had directions printed out for the students or on the board. Students that were familiar with the process worked to help students that were not. All students worked with a partner. 1. Students created their own Wikispace. 2. Students previewed a Time article by creating and embedding a Wordle (not easy to embed) onto their wiki. 3. Students linked the Time Article and answered a series of questions, posting the answers to their wiki. 4. Students then embedded a WallWisher onto their wiki. They were asked to check in with their classmates and discuss their reactions to the Time article. 5. Students researched online articles about the history and process of origami. They linked their articles and answered questions regarding origami on their wiki. 6. Students embedded a map of Japan on their wiki using Scribble Maps. They located and labelled the origin of the tsunami and did the same for the nuclear reactor. 7. Students embedded a Youtube video explaining how a tsunami occurs. They summarized the video. Some students chose two. 8. After all this, students were asked to include their opinion of the 21st Century Skills that were used. I asked if they thought it helped or impeded their learning.

Student Work: Devon and Arianna's Page Sukey's Page

Room for Inquiry???? : There was room for inquiry throughout the entire lesson. Student's actually came up with the idea of raising money for Japan through origami as a class. The WallWisher led to great discussion as did the opinion on 21st Century Skills.

Engaging Materials : On the day we spent doing origami, there were videos constantly being shown on the origami process. Students also watched a number of videos on tsunamis, the destruction that took place, and on other aspects or Japanese history, that was unintentionally taught.

Summary : Looking back this was not your prototypical CSL project. My major intention was to get kids comfortable with using 21st Century Skills, as well as getting myself comfortable with teaching them. In retrospect, this was a pretty disjointed lesson, but it was valuable in helping me create future lesson plans in a much more organized way.

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