Teachers: Debby Burns and Julie Burson
School: Rashkis Elementary
Grade: 1
Content Area: Health and Science
Standard Course of Study Objectives Met:
English Language Arts:
Competency Goal 1 - The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
Competency Goal 3 - The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
Healthful Living:
Competency Goal 5 - The learner will apply behavior management skills to nutrition-related health concerns.
Computer/Technology Skills:
Competency Goal 3 - The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.
Best Practice(s) Modeled: Integrates Web site and SMART Board with healthy living curriculum.
Description of Lesson and/or Unit:
As part of a first grade lesson on nutrition, students visited an interactive Website from the Dairy Council of California featuring the revised food pyramid.
Using a SMART Board* enabled us to turn the Web site into a whole class activity, increasing the levels of teacher monitoring, student engagement - and fun.
Students came in turns to the SMART Board to click and drag foods to the proper food category.
There were speaking goals (paraphrasing, new vocabulary) listening goals and viewing goals for the activity. After the group activity, students used laptops to visit the site individually.
* A SMART Board is a large interactive white board which acts as both a display screen and a touch-sensitive tool.
