This will be the third or fourth lesson in a 4th grade unit addressing climate change and possible solutions. Students will research a way they can help the environment and add three facts they found, an image, and a text animation to a class Google Slides presentation. This way everyone can see the information their classmates found and different ways they can use Google Slides. The instructional goal of this unit is for students to identify one way we can help protect our environment and share it with the rest of the class. Students will meet this goal by using Google Slides and the different tools that can be used on it. This technology supports the instructional goal by providing the students a means through which they can organize and clearly present their work, and easily view their peers’ work as well.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kMVj6NvHt5nOlylexmgHUsBIG9H07nHdHrimdk-f0kI/edit?usp=sharing
Megan and Rachel,
Really enjoyed the lesson and delivery. It’s a powerful issue and you handled it in a way that moved beyond the problems to focus on how students could have agency to make a difference.
Your delivery was great – solid teacher voices, clear explanation and an easy-going demeanor fostered student engagement.
Google slides was an efficient way to gather and display student work. With more time, or a follow up, it could have been a catalyst to discussion comparing and evaluating the student suggestions.
I think the lesson would have been a winner with your target audience.