Team+Projects

= Team Projects = = = Team 1

__The History of the American Flag__

Jill Girard Nicole Freeman

Team 2 Final Lesson Plan Submitted (Click on our Team 2 page link) Priscilla King Carolyn Townsend Kim Lyons
 * ===How can technology be used to enhance the explanation of a (//mathematical//) concept? ===
 * === Where and how is math vocabulary used in the real world? ===

Team 3

Lisa Tabaracci-Falmouth, Joanne Queenan-Pentucket, Barbara Duda-Pentucket

Regions of the United States - final lesson plan Inquiry Question- How do the climate, physical features, and major resources affect the way the regions of the United States are grouped together?

Team 4

Wendy Scholes, Nicole Mele, Lynette Perdiz-Cash Immigration/ Cultures of the World

Team 5

We are a group of three. Doing a project about Archeology. Rosalie Stebbins Jeff Destino LaRae Davis

Team 6

Patricia Hand phand(at)gloucester.k12.ma.us Mary Beth Quinn mquinn(at)gloucester.k12.ma.us OR mrsquinn219(at)gmail.com Michelle Eastman Julie Spencer-Robinson Project We are grade 6 ELA teachers (two of us teach SS/ELA and one teaches Math/ ELA) We are trying to concentrate on teaching characterization using The FAkebook, Glogster and Prezi. (Who knows where we'll end up!!)

Team 7

Deb Lyons Cheryl Shipman Donna Bell-Paolucci The three of us will be working together on the following project idea: Author Study Target Question: How can technology be used to enhance, guide or facilitate an author study.

Team 8

Susan Maguire Old Colony - **smaguire(at)oldcolony.us** Paula Sampson Stoneham Tricia DiPietro Stoneham Our Project: How can we use technology and online collaboration to help students understand the National History Day theme?

Team 9

This lesson will be part of an interdisciplinary unit including ELA, Science, Social Studies and hopefully Math. This unit will be the focus for an environmental month; the focus will be across grades and disciplines. The technology used in this unit will include and not be limited to Glogster, Wikispace, Googledoc, e-Pals and various search engines. Main idea: Environmental Problems and Solutions Science - Gr 6 How living things interact with the environment Gr 7 How changes in the environment affect weather Social Studies - Gr 6 How the earth's surface has changed due to environmental changes, Glogster Gr 7 How the farming revolution affected the environment? ELA - Gr 6 & 7 Persuasive writing, Pamphlet, Wiki for discussions, Google doc for collaborative writing, ePals across the world for different perspectives Math - Gr 6 & 7 Data analysis and interpretation These are ideas we are brainstorming, only the best will be used.

Josh Perkins - Science, Gr 6 Lisa Morse - ELA, Gr 6 Arthur Murphy - Social Studies, Gr 7 Aleza Beauvais - ELA, Gr 7 Phyllis Kemp - ELA, Gr 7

Team 10 Nikola Bureau- nbureau(at)lccps.org John Crescitelli Beth Niece- bniece @ scit.org Denise Sabino Lesson Idea: Digital Citizenship and Online Safety Introduce students to issues they will encounter and their responsibilities online using age appropriate authentic digital materials. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the topic by creating a multimedia presentation

//Student work samples// Cyber Security
 * Niece Final Lesson Plan-Scituate**

Social Networking Safety


 * John Crescitelli Plan**

[|Student Voicethread Examples]

Team 11

The dynamic trio of Aaron Kesler, Christine Boulette, and Lori Allen will be asking students the inquiry question of: What is the significance of the Amazon Rainforest to the global community? How can students use new literacies' technologies (specifically evaluating and collaborating) to demonstrate their understanding of the Amazon Rainforest and its connections/importance to the world?

Team 12 __Using Literature to Facilitate Discussion of Bullying in Middle School__ Diane Norby Maryellen Grady Andrea Levy Jennifer Zeuli

We are going to create a unit with 3 thematically linked novels to be used in grades 6, 7, and 8 to educate our students about bullying. Our plan is to incorporate the use of a wiki where students can interact with their entire grade level as well as staff. We will be introducing other technologies over the week. Our essential question is: How can new literacy tools enable us to make bullying instruction relevant to students?

Final Lesson Plan

Project wiki: http://bullylit.wikispaces.com/

Team 13

Melinda Maddigan Barbara Barros Kathy Dubrobsky Our plan is to work on a lesson using digital journals and evaluating web sites for grade two students that has students integrating the common core standards for ELA with social studies standard 2.7: On a map of the world, locate the continent, regions, and/or. the countries from which students, their parents, guardians, grandparents, or other relatives or ancestors came. With the help of family members and the school librarian, describe traditional food, customs, sports and game, and music of the place they came from and 2.9, with the help of the school librarian identify and describe well known sites, events, or landmarks in at least three different countries from which students families come and explain why they are important.

Team 14

1. Kristin Metcalf metcalf(at)wsps.org 2. Amy Ramos ramos(at)wsps.org 3. Mary Claire Manning manning(at)wsps.org We plan to create a lesson that integrates teaching author's purpose with content across the curriculum and with various technology tools. We realize that this is a broad topic and we look forward to refining and narrowing our ideas as the days progress. Because we all have SMART Boards, we will also be looking to incorporate this interactivity to this lesson.

Team 15

Group Members: Joanne Schmidt-Medfield, Jackie Machamer-Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School, Robin Pine-Gloucester, Jessica Durdel, Medfield Topic : Digital Citizenship (9-12)

Team Unit Plan: link See detailed unit plan and assessment when you click on the group 15 page.

Lesson Website for Digital Citizenship link

Sample Etiquette lesson by Robin Pine:

Team 16

Team Members - Maura Lizek - Kathy Reilly Topic - Pre - Columbian Civilizations (Inca, Maya, Aztec) Description of Lesson : Students will Blog/Wiki about their daily lives based on each aspect of the given Civilization - Religion, School, Food and Farming, Daily lives etc... Students will be expected to comment on other student's posts noticing similarities and differences among the civilizations Grading Rubrics through google docs or Wiki Time allowing, discuss the influence of Europeans and how that changed daily life for each civilization.

Team 17

Cathy Tucker Susan Soares Anita Kimball Cindy McSheffrey Our essential question is How do effective readers use text to form and defend an opinion.

Team 18

Anita Ciminelli Jon Pohorilak Research an influential Medieval historical figure and present the information in an oral performance as that historical figure.

Team 19

There are two members in my group: Carey Borrowman and Joe Roche. Our project is going to be: How do we incorporate technology into the way students respond to literature in order to encourage more independent reading and expression of core reading strategies.

Team 20

Kate Martin Keri Phillips Danielle Cohen Topic: 4th grade reading - "Poppy" Assessing prior knowledge and building background knowledge for the novel "Poppy" by Avi. They will learn about owls and mice through internet searches and articles. We are planning on setting up a wiki for our students to communicate thoughts and metacognitive strategies as they read the novel to hold a conversation with each other. animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/great-horned-owl/

Team 21

Erinanne Snyder, Martha Cheesman, and John Oldham (Holocaust Narratives) Our project centers around the question "How do people maintain their humanity and dignity in the face of inhumane conditions?"

Team 22

Antrese McColgan amccolgan(at)longmeadow.k12.ma.us Dale Skowera dskowera at longmeadow.k12.ma.us Hilary Seager (seager'at'prsd.org) Elaine Meuse (meuse'at'prsd.org) Digital scrapbook for learning- setting up and creating a digital scrapbook using a variety of digital tools across the curriculum

Team 23

People on the team: Jillian Weil: jweil(at)everett.k12.ma.us Chris Barrett Teri O'Brien: tobrien(at)medfield.mec.edu Lesson: Author Study where we will have groups of students chose an author, read a book by the author, research author's background, and present how the author's culture has influnced their books. Students will incorporate technoloogy throughout the process.

Team 24

Mary Ellen Caesar We are working on several PD ideas that will present models of how the admins want the staff to work collaboratively with new literacies to support the new Framework. Also, one for school committee and community.

Team 25

Maureen Bakis Ellen Kennedy: I am still having trouble getting my lesson plan on to the wiki, however, it is important to know that this is a project I have done for years. This was the first year that I really really enjoyed all of the presentations. What was more important, the students enjoyed watching the work of their classmates, even asked to see some of the presentations from other classes- a first. It was fascinating to watch them teach one another, and to see how the information travel across my 100+ students. If the idea was communicating with images- it worked! Several students used digital tech that we did not cover this summer, so we all learned a lot. If I can figure out how to embed two of them, along with my lesson plan- note that the digital presentation part is at the end. It is a long document that the students received in pieces, and the last page describes how they could use digital tech to do their presentation. So I tried to upload the very cool google sketch up- however it was too large- if anyone is interested please email me! According to the Verizon guy that I saw yesterday, I now actually have internet! Jennifer Samuels samuels(at)wsps.org Visual Literacy - communicating with images

Team 26 **Awesome Authors!—Researching, Glogging, and Persuading: An** **Internet Research Project**Students research the life of an author whose books interest them, create an online multimedia poster using Glogster, and include their Glog in an oral presentation designed to persuade classmates to read literary works by this author. In preparation for this presentation, students research online databases and author websites, collaborate on Google Docs, and complete a bibliography using EasyBib, an online citation tool. Nancy Grefe, Sharon Middle SchoolJoanne OíKeefe, Collins Middle SchoolSusanne Fuller, Sharon Middle SchoolCatherine Hall, Scituate Middle School

Team 27

Gina Despres Old Colony RVTHS Toni Weeden Old Colony RVTHS Krista Stevens Stoneham Public HS

Our Lesson will focus on Dystopian Literature and student exploration of individualism vs. conformity.

Team 28

Joanne Najarian, Elementary Integration Coordinator, Hopkinton Public Schools Greg Martineau, Principal Hopkin Elementary, Hopkinton Public Schools

Digital Literacy Professional Development for Elementary teachers

Team 29

Team 30