online exercise 7

1) 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).

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

3) 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).

4) Will you use quizzes? Tests?

5) A performance-based task?

6) 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?

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Answers:

1) COS objective: How photovoltaics work to harness solar energy

2) ISTE NETS standards: Collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.

Tools: Email; graphing calculators; GPS devices; digital cameras
3) I email parents weekly to keep them up-to-date with my classes. I will ask them for locations of solar panels. Students will use GPS devices to find solar panels in the community and use cameras to take pictures.

I assess this by grading the solar booklet they produce with pictures and locations of solar panels within our community.

4) This will also be assessed on the unit test for solar energy, which comes at a later time.

5) The performance-based task is the solar energy booklet they produce and present to the class.

6) Some learning activities for this mini-unit include: using the GPS to locate solar panels, using the camera to take pictures, taking in class data and using the graphing calculators to graph; taking the temperature of water in black cans and white cans, and making a solar oven. The hands-on activities and projects will lead to higher achievement when the unit test is given.