Content: We are using first grade Health Standard 1, Objective 1, that emphasizes the importance of using responsible health and safety practices. Specifically, "Messy Room" will teach students to take responsibility for keeping their rooms -- and our classroom, as an extension -- clean and safe for everyone. As an added bonus, students will be able to learn from an excellent poem -- thus making this lesson a literary delight!
Pedagogy: Students will have a strong connection with this lesson, as it is a fun, exciting, and unique way to learn; it will be particularly beneficial to visual and auditory learners. It is a good fit with the content because students learn most effectively when they are personally invested in the topic studied, and thus it is incredibly important that we help motivate the students to take responsibility for their personal and classroom environment. This lesson will encourage students to follow principles of health as we help foster student connection to the topic.
Technology: This lesson uses PhotoStory, a computer program that allows us to digitally display our poem and the corresponding photos we took on our digital camera. The students will watch our video of the poem, and then they will have the chance to create their own group videos. PhotoStory is a good fit with the content and pedagogy studied. The technology deeply enhances the content we will teach, as the images presented help convey to the students the negative effects that occur when people do not show responsibility for their personal environment. This technology also enhances the pedagogy, as it provides us with the wonderful opportunity to present the lesson in a unique way that increases student interest and investment.
Here is our storyboard:
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