13-14+Lessons

This page's purpose is to share lesson plans and lesson ideas used in my schools this year. Please feel free to download the lesson plan/outline. I understand it may not be in the form or format that your administrator prefers, but will list the tools, sites, and directions for using in your classroom. If you have additional ideas or if you use one of the lessons and have ideas to improve it, please contact me at chris.pugh@cmcss.net. toc

Recent Lessons
 * iPad:Educreations app - Math:Adding to 10 with story problems - **Kindergarten**
 * iPad:Drawing Carl app(Stamps,Stickers,Pencil) - Math:Addition to 10 - **Kindergarten**
 * iPad:Number Pieces - Math:Subtraction from 10 No Symbols - **Kindergarten**
 * iPad:school kit Math - Math:Subtraction from up to 10 with symbols - **Kindergarten**
 * iPad:Notes and Educreations apps - ELA:Writing Sentences - **1st Grade**
 * iPad:TweenTribuneJr link and Educreations app - ELA:Informational Text Features - **1st Grade**
 * iPad:Number Pieces app - Math:Adding groups of 10 to 2-digit numbers - **1st Grade**
 * iPad:Schoolkit Math app (Hundreds Chart) - Math: Adding 2-digit numbers with multiples 10 w/hundreds chart - **1st Grade**
 * iPad:KidTime and Feel Clock apps - Math:Time (past half hour) - **1st Grade**
 * iPad:Number Pieces - Math:Composing Tens from Ones - **1st Grade**
 * iPad:Number Pieces - Math:1.NBT.C.4 - **1st Grade**
 * CPS:Assessing - Reading:"The Goat in the Rug" -**2nd Grade**
 * Worldbook Online/TumbleBooks/TweenTribuneJr./Dictionary.com - ELA:Internet Research - Appropriate Sources - **2nd Grade**
 * iPad:Geoboard/Educreations - Math:2D and 3D shapes - **2nd Grade**
 * iPad:Symbaloo Links/PaperPort Notes app - ELA:Web-Based Research - **3rd Grade**
 * iPad:Newsela lesson/Office365 setup - Reading:Comprehension - **5th Grade**

Faculty Meeting Links Tasks include...
 * KES - 1/16/14 -** Today, our time will focus on using the Socrative online assessment tool to create a quick quiz or other data gathering station for you the teacher.
 * signing up for a Socrative account from @http://t.socrative.com.
 * changing you room number to a student friendly name.
 * creating 1 sample quiz/data gathering instrument per person.
 * learning how to share the quiz.
 * reviewing how to launch the quiz for students, how end the quiz, and how to collect the data.

For more detailed directions, go to our main wikispace at http://empowerstudents.wikispaces.com/Engaging+Student+Response.

Also, see Socrative's blog for classroom ideas and updates at http://www.socrative.com/garden/.


 * Highlighted words/sentences can be read aloud for students who must hear the text read AND are...**
 * **On a Mac running OS 10.8**
 * **To Setup Text to Speech -** Go to System Preferences, then click on "Dictation and Speech" preference. Click the "Text to Speech" tab. Checkmark the choice, "Speak the selected text when the key is pressed". The key to use will be listed directly below. There is a CHANGE KEY button that will let you select a different key or combination. Be mindful if you change it. Try not to pick a frequently used key or combination of keys used for other programs.
 * **To Use Text to Speech** - Click and drag across text on the screen to highlight. Press the selected key(s) to have the Mac speak the text.
 * **On an iPad**
 * To Setup Text to Speech - Go to the Settings app. Tap GENERAL. Tap ACCESSIBILITY. Tap SPEAK SELECTION. Slide the switch beside "Speak Selection" to ON (green). For added emphasis on words, you can slide the switch beside "Highlight Words" to ON (green). It may also be necessary to slow or speed up the talking rate with the slider on this screen.
 * **To Use Text to Speech -** Touch and hold a finger on the word to highlight until a magnified bubble appears. Take the finger off the word. The SPEAK button will be beside COPY and DEFINE if text to speech has been setup on this device. The blue circles above on each end of the highlighted text can be touched and drug to expand the selection. Tap the SPEAK button.


 * KES** - **1/9/14** - Please click this link to @http://edu.symbaloo.com/mix/onlineassessments . The questions on my samples may not be the most academic, but they were meant to showcase the wide variety of data you can collect from those types of online tools.

Recent Lessons


 * __Kidspiration 3__  - Math:Sorting - Robertson K
 * McGrawHill Virtual Manipulatives - Math:Using the Addition Symbol - **1st**
 * __Kidspiration3__  - Math:Simple Addition with symbols - 1st
 * YouTube(LearnZillion) / eReading Worksheets:Theme / Socrative / Discovery Education - Reading:Identifying Theme - **3rd**
 * __Kidspiration 3 / IXL Math__ - Math: Multistep Word Problems - **3rd**
 * Discovery Education:Writing Prompt - Writing:Opinion - **3rd**
 * __Edmodo / World Book Online Encyclopedia:Polls, Posts, and Pasting answers__  - SS/ELA:French and Indian War - **4th**
 * __Edmodo / World Book Online Encyclopedia:Polls, Posts, and Pasting Answers__  - SS/ELA: Revolutionary War - **4th**
 * __GoogleDocs Spreadsheets__  - Math Data Colleciton - **4th**
 * __Vernier Probes/LoggerLite - STEM:Heat from Friction - **4th**__
 * __Edmodo / World Book Online Encyclopedia:Post, Paste Text into Reply__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Social Studies/Online Writing: Civil War Leaders - **5th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TweenTribune / TodaysMeet__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading:Inferring/Drawing Conclusions - **5th**

1. For all Discovery Education links, a Discovery Education Streaming account is required to view content. Teachers and students in Clarksville-Montgomery County have one provided for them. Sign-In is required to view these resources.

Kindergarten

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TES iBoard - Math - Counting to 10 objects with Bee Manipulatives - **K**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discovery Education__ 1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__/ TES iBoard__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Social Studies/Math - Compare and Contrast families/Counting to 5 - **K**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TES iBoard:Counting/Estimating Marbles -__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math:Counting to 20 - K
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Kidspiration 3:Picture View -__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math:Sort by Shape and Color - K
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TES iBoard:Counting Frogs__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Math:Counting by 10s - K
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Kidspiration 3:Picture View__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading: Identifying Setting - K
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TVOKids/RhymeBot__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Identify rhymes/complete rhymes - K


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad:Reading Magic 1 app- Reading:CVC Words - **K**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad:Educreations app- Math:ID Flat Shape Attribute - **K**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad:Howie Word Families app - Reading:Beginning Sounds of Words - **K**

1st Grade

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Discovery Education <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading - ID Characters of a Story(Teacher Use of Resources)- **1st**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TES iBoard / TodaysMeet__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading - Digitial Storybook/Describe Setting - **1st**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">McGraw-Hill Virtual Manipulatives <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Math - Using 10 Frames and Two Color Counters for Writing/Modeling Addition Equations - **1st**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">TES iBoard <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading - Compare Characters in a Story - **1st**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TweenTribuneJr. / TodaysMeet__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading:Text Features - 1st
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TES iBoard:Mammal and Bird Cards & Make and information Book__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading:Text Feature - 1st
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TumbleBooks / PebbleGo /TodaysMeet__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading:ID Fiction and Nonfiction - 1st
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discovery Education/TES iBoard__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading/Writing - 1st


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TumbleBooks/TodaysMeet - Reading:Identify and Support Who is Telling the Story - **1st**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IXL Math/McGrawHill Virtual Manipulatives - Math:Subtraction Sentences from Story Problem - **1st**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad:Reading Magic 4 app/Notes app - Reading:Phonics Long O words - **1st**

2nd Grade

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Kidspiration:Math View/BaseTen Pieces__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Math - Place Value Comparing Numbers to 999 - **2nd**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TodaysMeet / Poem from Online Resource at Scholastic__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading/Writing - Nonfiction Poems - **2nd**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Discovery Education <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Math:Place Value 2-Digit Numbers(Teacher Use of Resources) - **2nd**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TumbleBooks / TodaysMeet__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading:Characters, Setting, and Plot - 2nd
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TES iBoard:Number Chart/Number Line Drop TENS__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Math:Skip Counting 5s and 10s from Multiples - 2nd
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TES iBoard:Character Comparer__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading:Compare and Contrast Characters - 2nd
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__DanceMat Typing/TES iBoard:Number Line Drop TENS__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Typing Instruction/Skip Counting 10s - 2nd
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__DiscoveryEducation/Kidspiration 3__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Science:Comparing Life Cycles - 2nd


 * iPad/Socrative app:Short Answer/TweenTribuneJr website - Reading:Response to Text - 2nd
 * iPad:TweenTribune website/Educreations app - Reading:Long I words - 2nd
 * iPad:Number Pieces app - Math:Adding 4 2-digit numbers - 2nd

3rd Grade

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Discovery Education <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Science/Writing - Compare Ecosystems using Student Boards to publish - **3rd**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">TES iBoard <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Math - Finding Area - **3rd**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">TitanPad - Language - Revising Paragraphs/Combining Sentences with Similar Subjects - **3rd**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__PBSKidsGo:Dog Breeding__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Sci:Inherited Traits - 3rd
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discovery Education:Student Boards__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Social Studies:Elements of Culture - 3rd
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__BBC Science Clips:Reversible/Irreversible Reactions__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Science:Separating Mixtures - 3rd


 * IXL Math/Socrative.com - Math:Division - 3rd
 * iPad:K12 Equivalence Tiles app/Educreations app - Math:Fractions Equivalent - 3rd
 * iPad:TweenTribuneJr website/Worldbook Online Website/Time for Kids Website - Reading:Reference Sources and Text Features - 3rd
 * iPad:K12 Equivalence Tiles app/Educreations app - Compare and Order Fractions - 3rd

4th Grade

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">TitanPad <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Language - Narrative - Journal Writing Collaboratively - **4th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discovery Education:Writing Prompt__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Reading: Sequencing Directions(Teacher Use and Student Use) - **4th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Vernier Motion Sensors/Logger Lite__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Math/Science - Measuring Speed of Liquid Container with different materials on bottom - **4th -**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Alternate Method:** Vernier Temperature Probes/Logger Lite/PhET.Colorado.Edu:Friction
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__CPS__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Science - Collecting Formative data on Students for Metamorphosis content - **4th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discovery Education__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Science - Food Webs(Teacher Use) - **4th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Vernier Probes/Discovery Education__ / PebbleGo <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Temperature Data/Animal Adaptations - **4th**


 * iPad:Educreations app/Worldbook Online website - 3 Branches of Government - 4th
 * iPad:K12 Equivalence Tiles app/Educreations app/Photo app - Math:Fractions related to Decimals - 4th
 * iPad/PhET HTML 5 sim:Force and Motion website- Science:Motion, Speed, Friction - 4th
 * Office 365 Student Email - 4th
 * iPad:PaperPort Notes app - Reading (small group) - Summarizing a scanned nonfiction article - 4th
 * iPad:Socrative Student app - Reading (small groups) - Story Elements in 1 group;Summarizing in 1 group - 4th
 * iPad:K12 Equivalence Tiles app/Educreations app - Math:Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers - 4th
 * iPad:Socrative Student app/TweenTribune Jr - Reading:Response to Nonfiction Text - 4th
 * iPad:Educreations app - Social Studies:3 Branches of Government - 4th
 * iPad:Photos app - Emailing Student products from iPads to teacher - 4th

5th Grade

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__TitanPad__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Social Studies/Writing - Summarizing online articles on 3 Branches of Government in web-based collaborative documents - **5th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discovery Education__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Social Studies - Comparing TN and US Constitutions(Teacher and Student Use) - **5th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Discovery Education:Student Boards__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Science - Plant VS. Animal Needs - **5th**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Vernier Temperature Probes__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Science:Heat Transfer - 5th - [[file:5th Grade - Sci - Heat Transfer with Probe.docx]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Office 365__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - Research Nonfiction Topic using Collaborative writing documents - 4th and 5th
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">McGraw Hill Virtual Manipulatives - Use grade level appropriate manipulatives and type explanations to print.


 * iPad:Educreations app for students/BBC Skillwise website for teacher - Language:Double Negatives - 5th Intermediate Modified
 * Vernier Motion Sensor - Science:Motion/Speed and Math:Reading Decimal numbers to 1000ths place value - 5th
 * iPad:Evernote app - Reading(small group) - Summarizing a nonfiction article - 5th and 5th Intermediate Modified
 * iPad:Educreations app - Math:Multiply Fractions - 5th
 * iPad:Educreations app/History Channel website - Social Studies:Life Before and After WWII - 5th