Teacher(s) Name: Mrs. Jewell & Mrs. Haluska
School: Hungary Creek MS
Grade Level(s): Grade 7
Content Area(s): US History
Lesson Summary
Using the Lyric Lab in Flocabulary, students created raps (using couplets) about the Reconstruction Era. The raps were submitted to Flocabulary as part of a county-wide competition and Flocabulary selected a winner from among the raps submitted to be made into a rap for the company to be distributed to schools nation-wide. One of my student’s raps-lyrics was selected as the winner and will be the rap used for Flocabulary’s Reconstruction lesson. With the help of the class over the course of the school year, Flocabulary’s performers will produce the student’s lyrics into a song and music video.
TIPC Ratings
Research & Information Fluency
Rating:Ideal – Explanation: Students constructed questions while doing hands-on research and lab work while addressing an authentic task. They recorded their information on Google Docs and outputting their findings and conclusions in video or in a web page format.
Communication & Collaboration
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students worked in self-selected groups and created group norms to address an authentic task given by the teacher and principal. Students selected and used appropriate digital tools to facilitate collaboration, using Google Drive, Google sites and Google Docs to share and upload video and data of their recorded research. Students also collaborated with an expert in Boston using Google Hangout video conferencing.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students selected the most appropriate digital tools, as well as questioning, critical thinking and problems solving strategies to solve the authentic task. Students reflected on their roles as critical thinkers/problems solvers by analyzing their data and looking for factors that could have affected the quality of the creek water or the test.
Creativity & Innovation
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students synthesized existing and self-generated knowledge to create new ideas and products within and beyond the assignment parameters. Students reflected on their creative and innovative process. Students were given the choice of reporting back to the principal in either a video or website. Many students went above and beyond the assignment parameters, by creating videos that used augmented reality, special effects and had original storylines.
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