Name: Maureen Guenther
School District: Brigantine
Title of Lesson: Ocean Life Project
Subject: Science and Technology
Category: 3 to 5
Supporting Materials:
Ocean Life ProjectPower Point Presentation
Harbor Seal

Goals and Objectives of Lesson

Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to conduct research using the Internet.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to navigate a web site.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to create a Microsoft Power Point Presentation.
Students will be able to create a new Microsoft Power Point Presentation Add text to a slide,Animate a slide with sounds and effects.
Students will be able to cut and paste pictures from the Internet into their Microsoft Power Point Presentation
Students will be able to save their work to a 3.5" floppy disk
Students will present their Microsoft Power Point slide show to their class.

Cross Content Workplace Readiness

Standard 2: All students will use technology, information and other tools.
Standard 3: All students will use critical thinking, decisions-making, and problem-solving skills.
Standard 4: All students will demonstrate self-management skills. Language Arts and Literacy
Standard 3.1: All students will speak for a variety of real purposes and audiences.
Standard 3.4: All students will read various materials and texts with comprehension and critical analysis. Science
Standard 5.2 All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.
Standard 5.6: All students will gain an understanding of the structure, characteristics, and basic needs of organisms.
Standard 5.7 All students will investigate the diversity of life.

Summary of Lesson 1

These lesson plans were designed to be taught to students in the third and fourth grades. The primary objectives of the lessons is to give students guided practice in conducting research on the Internet, as well as, to teach students how to create a Microsoft Power Point presentation.

The students will work independently in the computer lab. The project will require eight forty minute instructional periods to be completed. Students will use the Internet to facilitate their research about various organisms living in the ocean.

They will use a teacher created worksheet to guide their research on the Internet. Upon completing their research, students will be taught how to use Microsoft PowerPoint. They will then transform their research into a Microsoft Power Point presentation. Students will use a large screen display device to present their individual Power Point slide shows to the class.

Equipment, materials and other technology needed

Computers with Internet Access Students used the Yahooligans directory as a basis for conducting their research.
www.yahooligans.com
Large screen projection device (LCD panel)
Teacher created research sheet
Microsoft Power Point graphic organizer
3.5 floppy disks
Microsoft Power Point

Detail of Activities

Student Feedback and Assessment

Teacher Evaluation
Completed Research Sheet
Completed Power Point Presentation
Grading Rubric for Technology Project

Additional comments and suggestions

This lesson addresses the Cross-Content Workplace Readiness Standards as they are outlined in the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. In this lesson students at the third and fourth grade level are being taught to use Microsoft Power Point, an application that has the potential to be very useful to them in the workplace. Learning Microsoft Power Point was also a creative endeavor for the students. They enjoyed creating and presenting their slide shows.

Lesson 2

Objective

Students will be introduced to the Ocean Project.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to conduct research using the Internet.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to navigate a web site.

Materials
Example of a Microsoft Power Point slide show
Ocean Life Project worksheet

Activities

Anticipatory set
• Show students an example of a Microsoft Power Point slide show created by the teacher.
• Discuss how the person creating the slide show can choose all of the sounds and animation effects.
• Discuss the project with the students and explain that they will be creating their own slide show presentations.

Instruct students to log onto the Internet and to access www.yahooligans.com
Review how to navigate through the Yahooligans directory. Students should go to Science>Animals>Marine Life. There are 14 sub-categories to choose an organism to research.

Students should choose an ocean organism that they would like to research.

Students will begin researching their ocean organism.

Evaluation
Teacher Observation Lesson 2 (2 forty minute class periods) Objective: Students will demonstrate
an understanding of how to conduct research using the Internet.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to navigate a web site. Students will be
able to save their work to a 3.5" floppy disk

Students will continue their research using yahooligans directory.
They will use the teacher created worksheet to guide their research.
Students will use the Microsoft Power Point graphic organizer sheet to organize the questions for their presentation.

Evaluation

Completed worksheet and graphic organizer

Lesson 3

Objective

Students will demonstrate an understanding of how to create a Microsoft Power Point Presentation.
Students will be able to create a new Microsoft Power Point Presentation

Materials

Microsoft Power Point
Students 3.5" floppy disc
Large Screen Projection Device

Activities

Use a large screen display device to show students how to create a blank presentation in Microsoft Power Point. Show students how to create a new slide and to choose a background design.
Students will work independently to create a new slide show with 8 slides.
Students will choose a background design for their presentation.
Students will save their work to a 3.5" floppy disc.

Evaluation

Teacher Observation 8 blank slides saved to disc

Lesson 4 (2 forty minute class periods)

Objective

Students will be able to add text to a Microsoft Power Point presentation.

Materials

Microsoft Power Point Students 3.5" floppy disc Large Screen Projection Device

Activities

Students will enter the text onto the eight slides of their presentation.
Students will save work to 3.5" floppy disc.

Evaluation

Teacher Observation
Completed slides

Lesson 5

Objective

Students will be able to animate slides with sounds and effects.

Materials

Microsoft Power Point
Students 3.5" floppy disc Large Screen Projection Device

Activities

Use a large screen projection device to show students how to add sound and animation to a slide.
Students work independently to animate slides.
Students will save work to 3.5" floppy disc

Evaluation

Teacher Observation, Completed slides

Lesson 6

Objective

Students will be able to cut and paste pictures from the Internet into their Microsoft Power Point Presentation

Materials

Computers with Internet access
Microsoft Power Point Students 3.5" floppy disc Large Screen Projection Device

Activities

Use a large screen projection device to show students how to cut pictures from the Internet and paste them into their Microsoft Power Point Presentation.
Students will access www.yahooligans.com
Students work independently to paste at least two pictures onto their project.
Students will check slides for spelling and grammatical errors.

Evaluation

Teacher Observation, Completed slide show

Lesson 7

Objective

Students will present their Microsoft Power Point slide show to the class.

Materials

Large Screen Display Device Student's 3.5" discs,Grading Rubric

Activities

Students will take turns presenting their Microsoft Power point slide shows to the class.

Evaluation

Grading Rubric for Technology Projects