Mouse in the House Lesson with integrated Technology

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Mouse in the HouseLesson with integrated
Technology

• Jennifer Tunstall
• ETC447
• 12/05/05

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Lesson Overview

• The objective of this lesson is to teach 8th
  grade students prepositions.
• Upon successful completion of this lesson,
  students will be able to use and identify
  prepositions correctly and present them using
  PowerPoint.
• The lesson covers standards 6 Conventions and
  Az. Standard 3 Technology

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Resources

• Off-Line
• Overhead notes
• Write Source 2000
• Online
• Computer lab
• PowerPoint software
• Data projector

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Traditional Task

• Mouse in the House activity on prepositions.
  Various
• pictures are on the white board attached with
  magnets a
• mouse, house, school, bench, and tree. Have
  students
• write sentences describing where the mouse is
  located in
• regard to the other pictures.

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Examples
For more prep. Practice visit
http//www.aliscot.com/bigdog/prepositions.htm
The mouse is in front of the house.
The mouse is sitting on the bench.
The mouse is between the house and the school.
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Integrated Technology

• The students will use their notes and knowledge
  of prepositions to create their own PowerPoint
  presentations.
• They will get two one-hour sessions in the
  computer lab to work on them, as well as
  additional time after-school as needed.
• The following Friday and Monday the students
• will present their PowerPoints to the class.
• They will be graded on the content and design
• of their PowerPoint projects, as well as how
• they did presenting the information. (Grades
• are based on an evaluation rubric)

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My Webpage

• You can find the complete lesson plan on my
  webpage beginning December 12, 2005.
• http//dana.ucc.nau.edu/jlt227/