EDU 133: Lesson Plan with Educational Technology Integration
Team: Jordan Newman and Cassidy Woodley
Lesson Topic: Nature (trees) Grade Level: 9
Lesson Objective:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to create a visual representation of trees.
EdTech Tool: Padlet - [Link]
Lesson Materials/Resources:
(Special Preparation)
● Research notes from previous day’s lesson
● Laptops or computer lab
● Email address (or Gmail log in to register for Padlet)
Lesson Activity Plan
Introduction (PPT – Slides 2 – 3)
18 min. ● Let’s discuss about how important trees are in our world.
● Slide presents pictures and names of different types of trees, how
they are important, how we can help them, which ones we have in
our community.
● “Yesterday, you and your partner picked a specific tree that is in our
community to research about. Today you and your partner will start
researching and putting your presentation together.
● “Padlet is like a digital poster board for you to add text, images, and
even videos.” (show tutorial video)
● Teacher Demonstration using Padlet (adding text, an image, and a
Direct
video) Teacher goes over size of text, colors, pictures, and length of
Instruction
15 min. PPT.
● Teacher checks for comprehension by involving students in adding
more features to the teacher demo board.
● Explicit instructors are given for (login, sharing the board with partner
for live collaboration, expectations, and given the grading rubric)
Guided
Practice ● Students are given time to login, view tutorial, select layout, and
15 min. share their board with their partners.
● This is a time for questions and working together to get started.
Ind. Practice
(45min. x 2 =
continues to ● Students now begin to work collaboratively on creating their visual
day 4 of unit) board
● Students are given 2 blocks of 45 minutes (across two days) to finish
this project
Assessment ● Project is graded with a rubric, this rubric is given to students prior to
of Objective: starting.
● Students submit their project
● Project is this posted to class website