My Technology Lesson

My plan to encorporate technology into my 3rd grade classroom is to first use the promethean board for my math lesson and then the students will go to a website approved by the school district to practice their skills of what is fair and unfair.

Technology-Enhanced Lesson

An idea for a technology-enhanced lesson is to teach math and then have the students play a game on the internet that integrates the lesson into real-life. For example, if I am teaching 3rd grade fair, unfair, and probability, I could teach them the lesson at the carpet and give them examples of how I know what the chances (probability) are. I could also use a spinner and the sudents could determine if the spinner was fair or unfair. There are lots of games on the school's website that the students could play that deal with probability such as dice, spinners, or flipping coins. The students could use these and determine their own probability.

Technology

I am in a school that has so much technology! First of all, my class has a promethean board. I have never seen one of those! I am used to the old projectors but this is so awesome! So we use the promethean board all the time. My teacher has her own laptop Mac and we have 5 desktop Macs in the back of the classroom. Also, if we sign up, we can have laptops for every student offered from the computer lab. I love technology!

Virtual Tour Link

http://sites.google.com/site/utahgeographytour/my-files

Virtual Tour Plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Utah Geography	Look over all the different types of terrain in Utah on GoogleEarth and explore. Ask the students to write down three  places they would like to visit and why. What do they find interesting about these places?	Layers: Terrain and weather
2. St. George	Look at the different weather temperatures on the map of Utah. Zero in on St. George and write down the forecast for the next week.	Layers: Terrain and weather
3. Logan	Loo at the weather temperatures of Logan and compare/contrast with the temperatures you found for St. George. Which place would you rather live in right now?	Layers: Terrain and weather
4. Lake Powell	Identify different types of geographic elements in Lake Powell and surrounding area.	Layers: Terrain and weather