Online Exercise 7: Standards

Locate a state standard(s) for the grade you are teaching. Identify a standard that can be addressed through a short unit (one to five days).
Standard 7.3 Social Studies - Civics

Now visit the ISTE NETS standards to see whether one or more of those is appropriate for helping you meet the content standard(s) you have selected.

Research and Information Fluency

If so, identify the tools, such as software or websites that you will be using or have used in a past lesson.

http://www.govspot.com/state/al.htm


Now that you have the standards in mind and have selected your technology, think about how you might assess or did assess whether your students have met the standard(s).

Will you use quizzes? Tests?
Yes, short quizzes are a great assessment tool. These will allow me to do quick checks to see whether students are understanding how to research about Alabama's state government.

A performance-based task?
Yes, a performance based task will be for students to research an element of Alabama's state government and to present what they learned by powerpoint, poster, podcast, or storybook.

Next, think about the learning activities. How will each activity address the standard(s) you have selected? How will the activities help your students succeed on the assessment?

We will visit http://www.govspot.com/state/al.htm during class to learn how to use the internet to research our topics. This will help students with the technology standard. I will also have students do a scavenger hunt on this website to help them improve their searching skills. Students will be able to use this skill for the performance based task because they will be able to search more efficiently for information on their topic.