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=**Teacher's Page **  =  **Group Understanding:** We will be creating a WebQuest for year five students about the human body. They will be put in the position to explain to an alien what the function of certain body parts are (eyes, ear, blood). The students will then present their work on a class wiki page. Therefore, the four lesson plans will include: An activity on the eye, an activity on the ear, an activity on blood and activity of putting together the wiki page. These will all be social constructivist ICT activities that will allow the students to learn collaboratively through problem solving. This means that the tasks will be done in pairs and the wiki page will be a class assignment. The three ICT resources, other than the internet, will include Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel and Wikispaces. As well as this, students will be using the digital camera. Students will be engaged by the alien theme, which will assist in motivating them complete the task.

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 **Science Functions of living things-** Level 2: **The student:** Understands that needs, features and functions of living things are related and change over time. **TE skills-** Level 2: **The student:** Identifies, understands and applies the necessary skills and simple operational procedures, organises and uses the tools, equipment, materials and information needed for routine tasks with care and safety, when creating and modifying technologies. **TE information**- Level 1: **The student:** Identifies the various ways information can be used and presented, relating this understanding to the use of simple ways of gathering, sending, receiving, recording and presenting information. **TE** **enterprise-** Level 1: ** The student: ** Applies a trial-and-error approach to generating ideas and developing technologies and modifies work in response to self evaluation and comments from others. **TE materials**- Level 1: **The student:** Recognises the relationship between the use of familiar materials for different purposes and their safe and simple manipulation to achieve a solution. **Mathematics**   Collect and organise data    **-**   C&D 13a.1    : The student:   Participates in classifying and sequencing objects and pictures and, with guidance, poses questions about them. ** Mathematics Summarise and represent data  **  **-** C&D 13b.1     :   **The student:**   Displays objects and pictures and describes data in words and numbers. 
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 * The three ICT tools chosen include:** Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Excel and Wikispaces

Microsoft Visio has been chosen to describe the process of hearing in a visual way. Instead of just labeling the ear in a word document, the students will research how sound waves travel through the ear and display the process in a diagram. Microsoft Excel has been chosen to present the data students have gathered from the internet and from the class survey and to display it in their choice of graph. A digital camera will also be used by the students to take a photo of their eyes and ears to upload onto their wiki space. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wikispaces has been chosen for students to present their final product that will compose of their three activities on the eye, ear and blood. It will also include photos of their eyes and ears, as well as any extras they may feel will make their class wiki page unique.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">S<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ocial Constructivist Classroom:  **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The project is centered around a social constructivist classroom as it is based on students teaching themselves by teaching others through using ICT. Social constructivism involves allowing students to work in groups to create knowledge, not simply regurgitate information they have been told. Within our project students will work in pairs for all the tasks and then finally the whole class will come together to place all their findings together on a wiki page. Through creating the wiki page as a class all the students can enter each others' pieces of work and gain further knowledge. A theorist reflecting social constructivism is Lev Vygotsky, whom believed in the Zone of Proximal Development, which is the difference between a student’s potential when working independently and their potential when working collaboratively. Through this belief our students would gain a higher understanding when working in groups or in this case pairs. The three ICT tools that have been chosen are important to assist in the social constructivist classroom. They have been chosen so that students will develop better ICT skills as well as recognise how all learning areas can be associated with ICT to help them learn or gain a better understanding. Students will reflect on their learning by doing the seventh step outlined in //Lesson Plan Task 4.// Within this task students are given time to move freely around other students wikispaces. Students will then have to write a short positive comment about another pair's wiki page. This comment will be emailed, through the school email, to both the student whose work they are writing about and to the teacher. After this the teacher will set homework, which is to write up a reflection on the work they have done, answering the following questions;
 * Reflection**
 * What have you learnt about the human body?
 * Did you think you told Hiley enough about the human body, to help him understand it?
 * What did you not do as well? What would you change if you did this again?
 * How did using a computer and programs such as Microsoft Excel, the internet and Microsoft Visio help you in your project?


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**[|Lesson Plan Task 1.doc] [|Lesson Plan Task 2.doc] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Lesson Plan Task 3.doc**] [|Lesson Plan Task4.doc] Return to Home