Project Planning Sheet

 Project Planning Sheet

Name: Emily Headings

Grade Level and Subject Area: Kindergarten Writing and Science

Title of Lesson: What would YOU do? 

Goals: The major goal of this lesson is to give students a chance to show their writing abilities by creating a digital story. Students will be investigating how to best help the community with reducing, reusing, and recycling. 

Content Standard(s): 

-With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

-Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

Technology Standard(s):
Standard 2. Communication and Collaboration 
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

Performance Objectives:

1. Students will pick an environmental issue they want to change.
2. Students will do research about the issue.
3. Students will create a story sharing about their issue.
4. Students will create digital pictures to use in their digital story.
5. Students will record their voice and put together their digital stories.
6. Students will use share their digital stories with other students, and give academic feedback on 2 other students' stories. 

Description of lesson: This unit will take place over a week, with a lesson each day.
1. the first lesson will start out with a video clip about our community's problem with littering, trash, and other issues. Students will be asked to think about how they could help the problem. We will make a list of problems and possible solutions to the problems.
2. In the second lesson, students will be taken to a landfill and be able to ask questions of the staff there. 
3.The third lesson will be a time students can write a story of how they can help the planet. They will be writing their stories, and asked to do a brief sketch. 
4.Then, students will be abe to pick whichever way works best for them to create pictures to go along with their story. They can use the ipad, computer, or draw and scan their pictures. 
5. The last day will more work time, in order for students to record their voices and put together their digital stories.
6. The week after, we will have a day for sharing time, in which we will watch other student's digital stories. Students will be asked to give feedback to two other students. For their grade, I will be grading using our school district's writing rubric, which is as follows. 
3- I can write a story with a beginning, middle, and end all by myself
2- I can write a story but need a little help
1-I cannot write a story without a lot of help.



Students will be using Track star to move through the project. You can find the track here. 

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Other kindergarten teachers will be using this same activity at the same time, so collaboration with other teachers will be key. If students need more time with a certain piece  we will take more time. This will be the first time doing this activity, so a lot of flexibility is built into the lessons.