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Selecting Instructional Technologies for 2nd Grade Lesson on Graphing

Learning Goals

Instructional and Learning Strategies

Target Technologies or Desired Tool Functions

could support your planned strategies

Constraints Identified from Instructional Analysis

that might limit or restrict your use of those technologies

Decisions

whether your targeted technologies are a match or a mismatch within the constraints of your instructional situation

Conduct a classroom survey to collect data. Interactive whiteboard, projector and computer in regular classroom to demonstrate and provide direct instruction on how to complete the survey form.

Survey form

Some students will need additional support on how to ask the proper questions to complete the classroom survey among their classmates. Match
Understand how to setup, read and interpret a bar graph. Interactive whiteboard, projector and computer in regular classroom to demonstrate how to setup the graph to reflect the results of their survey.

Paper and pencil  to create bar graph.

 

Some students will need additional support on how to set up the graph on their paper. This support can come from the teacher or from a peer buddy.

By following the demonstration that the teacher will provide on the interactive whiteboard, the students should be able to create the bar graph on paper.

Match

 

 

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Use the data presented in a bar graph to ask and answer questions about the data contained in the bar graph. Completed bar graphs on paper. Students will need help in understanding how to ask questions that will provide them with an analysis of their data in the form of a bar graph.

 

Mis-Match
Use the "Chart Wizard" tool in MS Excel to create a bar graph based upon the data collected in the classroom survey. Computer lab computers

 

 

Students will need to review the basics of MS Excel.
 
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The students must focus on the different demonstrations that the teacher will provide in the completion of this lesson. The students must be respectful and listen, as the teacher demonstrates how to: conduct, record and tally a survey; how to create a bar graph on paper; and how to recreate the bar graph using MS Excel. The students will work in groups as they compare their electronic bar graph to the one they made on paper. Color Laser printer

Presentation system in computer lab

 

Shortage of paper and toner for printer

Teacher's unfamiliarity with the laptop computer included with the presentation system.

 
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The teacher will provide the information related to conducting the classroom survey, creating the bar graph on paper and electronically and how to interpret the information provided on the bar graph. Presentation system in the computer lab Teacher's unfamiliarity with the laptop computer included with the presentation system. Match