Technology- Integration Lesson

This lesson is called Sharks-What’s on the Menu? This lesson is science & language arts lesson and it is recommended for grade level 4^th -6^th. Students are given a scenario they are swimming along and come face to face with a shark. If they don’t want to be the main course for that shark the will need to learn about different types of sharks and how they live. They will need to convince the shark why they would not make a good meal and offer the shark an alternate menu option. Students will need to find information about shark habits, normal diet, samples of items discovered from stomach of sharks, different types of sharks and view live sharks through a shark camera.  After students have researched all the information above they will write the short story and make sure to include literary elements such as settings, plot, ect.  They will then convert their story into a podcast for other students to see. They will have to show pictures that depict the story and how they convinced the shark that they were not a good option for dinner. Technology that will be used for this lesson is a wiki page that is where the assignment and requirements for this lesson will be listed for students. Students will also post their finished podcast to the wiki page.  Other technology that will be used for this assignment will be Internet for research, word processing program to write their stories, cameras, recording device, webcam, microphone, headphones and a multimedia program to put together their podcast. Students will also use iTunes to upload their podcast.  Students will be evaluate first on the story some key things that will be evaluated are do students display knowledge of shark habitats, do they show knowledge of different types of sharks, can they distinguish between natural food for sharks & “mistakes”, is the story creative and well organized and does the story demonstrate literacy elements of fiction. They will also be evaluated in the technology aspect of this lesson. Where students able to create a podcast. The podcast should include an appropriate introduction does the podcast tell the audience what to expect. Does the artwork that is used in the podcast match what the speaker is saying?  Is the speech easily heard and does the music set the mood of the podcast.