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 * Kyler Albert

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Evaluation of Learning: ||  || Colfax Elementary ||  || Name of Unit:Who is Colorado?
 * Tracy Booker

Grade Level: 3rd

Materials Needed: Access to laptops or computer lab daily for two weeks, paper doll templates, materials to decorate Colorado paper dolls, digital camera, digital 2.0 tools for digital storytelling (myebook.com or simplebooklet.com)

Length of Time: 3 weeks

Learning Goal:Students will communicate biographical information on significant Coloradans to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Description of the Activity:Students research biographical information on a Colorado Character using computers. They create a paper doll of their chosen Coloradan. Take a picture of the doll and place it on a page of a digital story book. Pages are in sequential order following time-line of Colorado history. Students type in biographical information on their digital page.

Evaluation of Learning: During research, students will fill out a page of questions on their character. Clothing and features on doll will be historically accurate based on the research done on the computer. || Have each student create their own ebook, have them drag historical images onto their own digital storytelling pages, have them read the information they researched using audacity to be linked to the book, and create a wiki with links to the ebooks and digital recordings of students || Colfax Elementary ||  || Name of Unit:
 * Teri Creach

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Evaluation of Learning: ||  || Maxwell Elementary ||  || Name of Unit: Gaggle.net and Writing
 * Paige Dersham

Grade Level: 2nd and 3rd grade

Materials Needed: Gaggle.net accounts and computers for all students.

Length of Time: This has been ongoing work, each session has been about 30 minutes.

Learning Goal: Students will communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.

Description of the Activity: 2nd and 3rd grade students were taught to use e-mail and blogs on gaggle.net. They blogged book reviews, and written work, and learned to comment appropriately to each other. They learned to compose and reply to e-mails.

Evaluation of Learning: Our students do not have easy access to computers and e-mail, this was an important skill for them to begin to master. They were all very successful and have continued to use gaggle.net on their own in the computer lab after school. ||  || Maxwell Elementary ||   || Name of Unit:
 * Stephani Duke

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 * Jane Elliott

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Evaluation of Learning: ||  || Steck Elementary ||  || Name of Unit: Investigating Body Systems (Tracks) Podcast
 * Mirriah Elliott

Grade Level: 5

Materials Needed: Computers, Stixy, iMovie

Length of Time: 2 weeks

Learning Goal: To understand the functions of body systems.

Description of the Activity: Students are placed in eight mixed-ability teams, each focusing on a body system. Students create a short movie on a specific body system. They write a script that proves their 4 claims and provide evidence with researched facts and illustrations. The podcast plan is attached.

Evaluation of Learning: Two rubrics are included in the link. One rubric is on the podcast plan and the other is on the iMovie. || Next time, I would be sure to share the rubric with students prior to starting the project. || Samuels Elementary ||  || Name of Unit:
 * Terri Goodspeed

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 * Kathren Hoffman

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Evaluation of Learning: ||  || McGlone Elementary ||  || Name of Unit: Author Study
 * Dawn Jackson

Grade Level:5th

Materials Needed: Laptops

Length of Time:45 minutes

Learning Goal:Sw use the laptops and navigate on the internet to obtain information regarding their author.

Description of the Activity:Students chose an author and were required to research several questions regarding their author. They were to find several key questions/answers on the internet and record the information they find.

Evaluation of Learning:Students were required to complete an "exit slip" regarding the information they found. ||  || Roberts K-8 ||   || Name of Unit:
 * Jeffrey Lewis

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 * Hugh Lindsay

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 * Brenna Markson

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 * Andrew Menard

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 * Marie Myfanawy

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 * Guy Pasquino

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Evaluation of Learning: ||  || Samuels Elementary || http://www.thegiverlitcircle.blogspot.com/ || Name of Unit: Literature Circle Blog
 * Rhonda Rau

Grade Level: 5th

Materials Needed: computers, www.thegiverlitcircle.blogspot.com

Length of Time: ongoing for three weeks

Learning Goal: respectable and accountable talk, familiarity with using respectful online communication

Description of the Activity: I created a blog for one of my literature circle groups for days that I wasn't meeting with them. The idea was from them to first answer general questions about the chapters they read to ensure they actually read. More importantly, I created the blog to ask questions that required them to think more deeply about their reading. They also were able to engage in a mini discussion with each other and respectfully agree and disagree.

Evaluation of Learning: They were very excited about participating in the blog. It made them more accountable to actually read the book- if they didn't read, they didn't participate. || Create blog for all literature circle groups, create a rubric as to what their responses should look like, include, length, grammar, etc and actually make it part of the grade, but I am happy with the results for doing this a first time. || Sabin Elementary || || Name of Unit: Accountable Talk, Interdisciplinary (across curriculum)
 * Sonia Spanitz

Grade Level:3

Materials Needed: Promethean Board, Active Inspire, Student Participation, Bag of Dice

Length of Time: varies on lesson, use all year round for progress monitoring

Learning Goal: Students will be able to have an ongoing conversation with 6 exchanges each

Description of the Activity: Students will be able to maintain a conversation using complete sentences and content vocabulary. The Flipchart I have attached has my students broken into teams of 4. Each column in my flipchart represents a different content for conversation. To begin this activity each student is given a die. Everytime a child actively participates in the conversation he/she turns their die. For example, if you (student) initiate the conversation you turn your die to one, and then when you converse again you turn it to two and so on until everyone on your team has reached 6 individual exchanges totaling 24. Not only does this activity hold each child accountable for developing their oral language, simultaneously, students can develop their math Number and Operation Skills. The Flipchart is designed to keep track of daily language progress in all content areas. To access Monday click on the yellow square, to access Tuesday click on the red square, Wednesday- blue, Thursday-green, and Friday purple. Modify this Flip Chart according to your own classroom needs. You may not want to assess every group each day or in every content area. Use and modify as you see fit. Having a flag in the box represents success in the category for that group. The flags are only symbolic of the 6 points earned by each team member. The variety of flags all represent the same accomplishment. The flags all mean that each group has achieved 24 points. Make sure the flipchart is in design mode if you want to make changes. I have an ELA-S classroom which is why I use flags, Besides, another thing my flipchart foes is tie in Geopgraphy. My students all know the name of the country each flag represents.

Evaluation of Learning: This flip chart is a progress monitoring tool for oral language development. You can use it to assess the students use of language content aligned with your language objectives. You can use this for students to ask and answer questions, you can use this for students to verbally plan out their writing, you can use this in Math, for example: for students to orally compare and contrast the difference between a square and an equilateral triangle, and you can use this in science to discuss hypotheses, data collection, and graphs in group discussions. || My next step is to create a flipchart with the same goal in mind. But, to have each child's name listed so I can individually monitor their oral language development. || Teller Elementary ||  || Name of Unit:
 * Anne Witwer

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