OhioTrek: A Focus on Literacy

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OhioTrek A Focus on Literacy

• Mediating Expository Text
• with Multimedia in the
• 3rd and 4th Grades   

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Project Overview

• Partners WBGU-PBS, NWOET, BGSU
• Focuses on problem-solving strategies
  specifically designed for literacy development
  through integration of reading, writing, social
  studies, and citizenship
• Supported by technology components for student
  and teacher accessibility

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"...digital communication has permanently altered
the literacy landscape and that students and
teachers today need systematic experiences to
cope with these changes and to prepare them for a
future in which textual information will be
overwhelmingly available in an extremely broad
array of formats and contexts." Reinking,
Labbo and McKenna (2000)
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Project Materials

• Video taped field trip experiences
• Curriculum Guide
• Interactive web-based activities
• Professional Development

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OhioTrek Field Trip Videos

• Farm Life
• Getting Wheat to Market
• Century Farm
• Producing Toys
• Producing Manufactured Toys
• Producing Handcrafted Toys
• My Community
• The Purposes of Local Government

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OhioTrek Field Trip Videos

• Moundbuilders
• The Day We Found a Hill
• Moundbuilders
• The Underground Railroad
• The Story of the Underground Railroad
• Cultural Groups
• Cultural Contributions

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OhioTrek Curriculum GuideContents
Introduction Farm Life Unit My Community
Unit Producing Toys Moundbuilders Underground
Railroad Cultural Groups
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Supporting State National Standards

• Appendices
• Draft Standards 3rd Grade LA
• NCSS (History, Geography, Civics, Economics)
• NETS (ISTE Standards for Students)
• URLs for Content

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Web-based Student Materials

• http//www.nwoet.org/ohiotrek2/
• Info Clues
• Word Bank
• Video Trek
• Trek Challenge

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Web-based Teacher Materials

• http//www.nwoet.org/ohiotrek2/
• PDF curriculum guide
• Directions for saving to desktop
• Project curriculum standards
• Project Information
• Teacher Survey
• Downloads for Tech Challenges
• Shockwave
• Acrobat
• Quicktime

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Unit Overviews Literacy Strategies

• Farm Life Production and Consumption
• Problem-Solution text
• Sorting nouns and verbs
• The Production of Toys Production and
  Consumption
• Sequencing non-fiction text
• Root words and inflectional endings
• My Community Purposes of Local Government
• Cause and effect relationships
• Semantic mapping

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Unit Overviews Literacy Strategies

• Moundbuilders Discovering Ohio History
  Designing a Historical Investigation
• Non-fiction text structure description
• Formulating questions for investigation
• The Underground Railroad Analyzing Primary
  Sources of Information
• Prediction, sorting, categorizing information
• Cultural Groups Comparing Cultural Groups
• Use graphic data for interpretation of
  information

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The Production of Toys
PRODUCTION CONSUMPTION Video Lessons Whole
group activity Classification Sequencing
The Toy Wagon - Manufacturing The Wooden Bus
Handcrafting Vocabulary - Small group
activity Inflectional Endings
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The Production of Toys
Comparing Forms of Production Small
groups Classification Identification of steps
in a process Designing a Toy Individual
activity Classify economic activities as
examples of production Text Structure
Individual activity Sequencing non-fictional
text Identification of cue words
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Closed Word Sort
Root words and inflectional endings students
sort words into columns based on phonic
generalization.
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"... the discussion of new technologies in
education is increasingly focused not on how they
can be assimilated into existing educational
structures, but rather on how they demand a
fundamental restructuring of the educational
enterprise." Reinking, Labbo and McKenna (2000)