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__Teachers Page!__ //**__A paragraph outlining the group’s joint understanding of the project__**// After careful consideration we (Agnes and Sarah) both agreed on choosing the topic ‘Antarctica’ for our project. We believe this is an important, fun and educational topic which all students can learn at most levels throughout their primary schooling. Depending on age, the standards and activities can be changed to fit the appropriate phase. We both read thoroughly through the unit outline, checklist and the ED4134 my classes page and highlighted what was expected of us, in order to complete this project successfully. We allocated several group sessions, where we looked over the outcomes, researched information on Antarctica and worked on what our four lessons would consist of, by incorporating a constructivist approach and a varied amount of ICT resources. We configured our lessons around the constructivist approach and then found how we can include some major ICT programs to benefit the students learning. These lessons were all prepared sequentially so students are able to build on their prior knowledge in order to benefit the students’ full learning potential. Throughout our lesson planning we also tried to make our four lesson’s varied learning areas, to show that ICT can be implemented all through the curriculum. Our wikispaces site at first glance seemed problematic, but after working through this and finding out how exactly to use and access information through it, we came to the conclusion this ICT resource can be extremely useful in a primary school setting. **__// Inspiration file //__**

**Duties for the project-** __ Step 1: Chosen lesson topic is ‘Antarctica animals’ __ o ICT must be integrated into the curriculum o ICT must be used collaboratively as thinking tools to solve problems o Must engage students in content in an interesting and exciting way  __Step 2: The project must include four sequential lessons that clearly state the learning outcomes__ o Lesson 1- Researching the characteristics and features of an Antarctica animal o Lesson 2- The food chain of each Antarctica animal o Lesson 3- Create an original story on Antarctica animals using comic life o Lesson 4- Design a brochure of the research on the animals that lives in Antarctica  __Integration of three ICT learning tools in the project/lesson__ o Inspiration o Webspiration o Comic Life o Power point  Principles of social constructivism needs to be evident in the students activity __ Step 3: A teachers ‘page showing how the outline of the project __ The duties for the both of us- The four lesson plans are divided evenly between the two o Lesson 1 and 3 – Agnes (chosen comic life for ICT tool) o Lesson 2 and 4 – Sarah (chosen webspiration, inspiration and power point for ICT tool)  __The teacher’s page __ o Paragraph outlining our understanding of the project- Sarah o Inspiration and inspiration file- both of us o Project management plan- Agnes o Map showing how the task was chosen for the project related to LAOs- Sarah o Reasons why we selected the three ICT tools- Agnes o Four lesson plans- both of us o How social constructivism is evident in our project- both of us __ Time frame for duties and entire project __
 * __ //A project management plan// __**

week 1 (friday 13th )- read unit outline week 2( friday 20th) - both went home to think about what topic to do by next week week 3 (friday 27th)- swap ideas, both decided to do australian animals week 4( friday 6th)- come up with another topic, Antarctica animals- both agreed week 5(friday 13th)- research as many information, games, activities, teachers resources on Antarctica animals week 6 (friday 20th & wednesday 18th)- work out who does what and have a look at ideas for lesson planning and talk about 'show and tell' week 7 (friday 27th)- add resources and teachers page week 8 (friday 3rd)- wrote down duties for both of us, reflected on the progress of lesson plan and discussed ICT tools week 9 (monday 6th)- computer lab show each other what we have done so far, start putting it together __ Required resources __ **Lesson one:** Interactive whiteboard, you tube video, worksheet, timer, rubric and internet


 * Lesson two:** Whiteboard, whiteboard markers, prepared diagram of food web, inspiration, animal research and rubric

<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-style: italic; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; language: en-AU; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"> __<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meeting times __ o Friday 13th of March, in class- brainstormed ideas outlining how our project will engage and motivate students to learn, and what they are expected to do. o Wednesday 18th of March, at 12:30pm we met up to see what we have done so far with our ideas for our four lesson plans, and also organize what we had to do for ‘show and tell’. o Friday 20th of March, started out wiki page in class, did the introduction. o Friday 3rd of April, wrote down the duties for each of the things we need to include in the teacher’s page, and reflected back on the progress of our lesson plan and the ICT tools we’re incorporating (this must be done by Monday 6th of April) o Monday 6th of April, met up in the computer lab and showed each other what we have done so far. Start putting our project together in the wiki and find out how exactly to use and access information through it. We came to the conclusion this ICT resource can be extremely useful in a primary school setting. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> //**__Mapping showing how the tasks chosen for the ICT integration project related to LAO's__** (provided throughout the inspiration file above)//
 * Lesson three:** Comic life, superhero comic book, interactive whiteboard, example of comic life made by teacher, extension activities and rubric
 * Lesson four:** Whiteboard, whiteboard markers, PowerPoint, smart board, webspiration and rubric
 * __// Justification of why you selected the three ICT tools and how they are intended to be integrated into the learning sequence //__**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Comic Life:** We selected comic life because this will be a fun and exciting program for students to create their own comic using pictures, photos and a range of templates, speech balloon and captions. This is integrated in our lesson 3 activity where students create an original story about animals from Antarctica. They have the opportunity to be creative and use their imagination and ICT skils. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Webspiration/Inspiration:** We thought webspiration/inspiration is a great visual thinking tool that enables students to go online and structure their work effectively, with organized information and ideas. It is fun, creative and active for the students to brainstorm all their thoughts, they are able to add pictures, hyperlinks, documents and re-design the text bubbles and links to fit in with their project style. These ICT tools are integrated into our second and fourth lesson, where brainstorming was conducted. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Power point:** We elected powerpoint for our fourth lesson- Antarctica tourism brochure. We chose this because we believe it was the most suitable software program for the students to develop a brochure in. It includes all the appropriate functions and formatting the students need in order for them to complete this lesson successfully and also creatively. Students are able to finish their brochures, hang them inside the classroom or show their parents what terrific work they had accomplished. <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basing our ICT Integration Project around the constructivist theory came simple to us both, because we both highly regard and believe in this style of teaching. When creating our project we thought of many different ways to construct a big project like this, and constructivism was our main point of direction. Throughout our project, we believe shows a number of constructivists attributes in which we incorporated in our wikispaces site and lesson plans.
 * __ //A statement articulating how your ICT Integration Project is centered on a social constructivist classroom// __**


 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students are **active** by being sent as explorers to Antarctica to gather all their findings and research their particular animals, here they are acting as producers by presenting the class all their information they found. Students have previously been learning about the Arctic Circle, so they are aware of the conditions and some particular species which may exist in Antarctica as well.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our lesson plans are all sequential and flow evenly, we made this so students could think **constructively** and were able to integrate their prior knowledge with the previous lesson and reflect upon what they had just been learning/learned.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We decided to choose Antarctica and situate the students in an **authentic** context, because it can be more effective and also different parts of the world can integrate into so many other learning areas and we believe this can prepare the students for better understanding of how the world works.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students throughout the project were to choose a partner to work with, **co-operate** and share their ideas and research with, in order to then present their findings to the class. We believe by students working together collaboratively they can share their knowledge and bring in new ideas the other person may not have thought of otherwise.
 * <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students were all to create a comic life story of their experience in Antarctica as one of our prepared lessons; this gave the students the opportunity to create something entirely on their own, providing it gave information and research on Antarctica. This cognitive tool was a way in which students could set their own goals **(intentional)** and feel freely to express their findings and how they felt about the project; they could include music, captions and photos/pictures.
 * // __ Four sequential lesson plans __ //**
 * //__Lesson One:[[file:ICT lesson 1.doc]]__//**


 * //__Lesson Two:__ [[file:ICT Lesson 2.doc]]

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