Submitted by: Emily Roberts
Collaborators: Joy McDonald, ITRT
School: Hungary Creek Middle
Summary
This lesson is designed to improve usage and mechanics while introducing students to the digital tool, Google Apps For Education (Google Docs). During this lesson, students will evaluate the implementation of capitalization rules, using examples provided by the teacher and by the students. They will compose their own sentences and justify their work by citing the associated grammatical rule that they employed. Then students used student data, collected through ActivEngage to gauge how effectively they have used capitalization rules. This data also helped correct
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Research was not a focus of this lesson.
Although the majority of the work was completed individually, students used several digital tools (Google docs and ActivEngage) to communicate their feedback this class assignment.
Students used critical thinking and problem solving in multiple ways for this lesson. First, students had to evaluate how capitalization rules were employed in a sample sentence that was posted in a shared Google presentation. They then would correct the sentence and justify their answer by referencing the associated capitalization rule. Next, the class evaluated the work of each student using Activengage to provide student feedback for each work sample. As a summative assessment, students reflected on their role in a non traditional mini lesson as compared to a mini lesson using Google Docs. This helped students begin to determine when to use digital and when to use traditional means of instruction and is an effective way.
Creativity was not a focus of this lesson.
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