Using Technology to Build Student-Teacher Relationships

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Ziplet is an online resource that helps teachers build meaningful and trusting relationships with their students. It creates a space for students to share their thoughts, personal perspectives, and understanding of the learning content in an efficient and anonymous manner with the teacher. Ziplet allows teachers to collect student data that informs them of the success of a lesson and the emotional, mental, and physical well-being of their students; also, it provides opportunities for teachers to create community engagement in their classrooms by posing fun, open-ended questions for students to answer.

Teachers can implement Ziplet in their classroom in a variety of ways and at different times of the school day, making Ziplet a teacher and student friendly technology. The goal of using Ziplet is to strengthen teacher-student relationships through the use of lesson understanding checks, open-ended questions that require individulized responses, and opportunities for emotional/mental check-ins through private communication between teacher and student.

Climate Change and Spanish: Interdisciplinary Learning

This Google Sites is for students to begin looking at and understanding interdisciplinary learning and studies. Most studies are divided into their own departments and schools, and the Google Sites is meant as a way to look at how Spanish and Climate change may be interwined. This lesson is meant as an introduction that students will go over in Spanish and answer a small assessment at the end of looking at this information. This will then lead them into a Spanish project of interwining Spanish into other disciplines that students will then present about to the whole class.

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GeoDudes! Learning How to Find Math in Real Life!

By Garrett Esponda & Maddy Lopez

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This lesson would be used as an introductory lesson into trigonometry. The goal for this lesson is for students to be able to develop a sense of understanding of trigonometry while using different online tools to assist them.

Native Tribes Lesson

By: Sarah Beth Leach and Valerie Garcia

This google site guides students through learning about two different native tribes from Oregon. This lesson is aimed for 4th grade students, and entails having two different pages with information as well as an exit ticket where students can demonstrate what they learned from the lesson.

https://sites.google.com/view/4thgradenativetribeslesson/home

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What’s the Weather Like?

By Sophia Litterski and Lydia Wanner

Greetings teachers! This Google Site exhibits a showcase of short activities that can be used to teach weather topics to K-2nd students through scientific inquiries. These activities can be used as stand-alone mini-lessons or activities that you build on throughout your weather unit. 

Each activity is complete with:
– the goal for the exploration
– materials needed
– directions for the exploration
– guiding questions for closing discussions

https://sites.google.com/view/weather-mini-lessons/home

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Water Cycle (Hold the Wheels, Extra Google Site)

The author of this lesson is: Chandler J. Marelich

This lesson was created by: Chandler Marelich UP ’23

Title: Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation.

Target Student Group: Third Grade Science

Lesson Context: This would be a comprehensive intro to the basic concepts of the water cycle. In other words, the introduction to a longer unit that covers all the building blocks for student understanding.

Goal for the Lesson: The goal for this lesson would be to introduce students to the concepts of the 3 basic pieces of the water cycle. Those being evaporation, condensation, precipitation. I would also like them to answer a small exit ticket, and explain where these different processes occur.

This site will bring this to light by providing students with a google forms quiz, a video from which the basic information can be garnered, an in-depth explanation of all 3 processes with images.


Big Feelings Google Sites

https://sites.google.com/view/sel2ndgrade/home

This SEL lesson is designed for 2nd grade but could also be used for 1st with aid from the teacher and upper elementary with some supplemental activities. This lesson would be an introductory lesson for the start of a unit about big feelings and calming strategies.

The goal of the lesson is for students to learn about big feelings and how to calm down when they feel them. The site allows for students to interact with online cool-down strategies that they can use in future situations.