Web 2.

0 Tools for Communication and Collaboration

Lesson Idea Name: Pollution Problem

ISTE Technology Standard Addressed: Use the What would you like students to know and be
link to guide you to suggested student standards able to do by the end of this lesson:
which come from the ISTE Student Standards
Website I would like my students to develop strategies for
leveraging technology to obtain, evaluate, and
ISTE Student Standard (Empowered Learner) communicate their learning about the effects of
1.1a: Students will articulate and set personal pollution on the environment.
goals, develop strategies to leverage technology
to achieve them, and reflect on the learning
process itself to improve learning outcomes.

What is the student learning goal(s) for this lesson idea?

Students will develop strategies with technology to gain and show their learning about the different
types of pollution and their effects on the environment.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

Remembering ✘ Understanding Applying Analyzing ✘ Evaluating Creating

How do you plan to implement this lesson and integrate the technology? Check all that apply:

☐ Teacher-led: There is no student voice and choice in the activities. Students are guided by the
teacher's direction and expectations. Learning activities are assigned to the
student and mostly practice based.

☐ Student-Led: Students are given voice and choice in the activities. They may select the topic
of learning and/or determine the tool they will use to meet the learning goal. The
teacher facilitates the learning as the students direct their own learning processes.

☐ Problem-based (Real world problems) and/or Publishable: Students are solving problems
and completing projects to demonstrate their learning. Additionally, the projects can be shared
outside of the classroom. (Note: This objective could be reached by displaying the project on the
school’s morning newscast, posting the project to the classroom blog, presenting it to another
class, or publishing it via an outside source.)

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Lesson idea implementation:

First, I will introduce the lesson by going over the standards and lesson objectives listed at the top of
the Wakelet so that the students know what they are expected to be learning. Then, we will look at
an image that portrays the effect that pollution has on the earth and share how it makes everyone
feel. This image includes things that the students already know and shows how that known thing
contributes to pollution. After that, we will watch a video that describes pollution and the 3 main
types of pollution (air, water, and land). After viewing, the students will be able to think-pair-share
about what surprised them the most and why with each other to self-assess themselves and practice
their metacognition skills. Then, we will go over the three main types of pollution definitions, causes,
and effects as a whole class. After the instruction of what the types are, students will have the
opportunity to collaborate through a JamBoard discussion about what they found most interesting
or what further surprised them. This will encourage active social learning and collaboration as well
as give me, as the teacher, a good understanding of where my students are at. Next, students will
have the opportunity to complete an activity book about pollution effects and littering as well as a
fun game that helps them understand pollution and the effects on the environment. These activities
will also show the students how humans have a part in pollution and the effect of that as well, which
furthers the standards. All of these activities and instruction will prepare the students for the
Microsoft forms assessment that they will complete next. This is a 10 question assessment with
multiple choice and constructed response questions, with a final 11th question asking the students to
rate how they feel about their learning and understanding of pollution. This will assess the student’s
understanding and give me, as the teacher, a better understanding of which students understood,
which students need some reteaching, and how effective my instruction really was. Then, as a final
wrap up activity, students will work in their table groups to make a “stop pollution” poster centered
around the pollution type of their choice. This will allow students to collaborate and actively engage
in the lesson. They will have 15 minutes to plan and create a poster. I will walk around and check in
on each group during this time to ensure they are on task and understanding the project. When they
finish, they will upload a picture of their poster to the JamBoard link in order to display their creation
as well as see the other group’s posters as well. Finally, to conclude the lesson, we will have a whole
group discussion about what we learned today.

Managing student learning:

Wakelet is a great tool to promote active social learners in the classroom because it requires the
students to engage in what they are learning and respond to it. However, active social learning can
very easily get carried away into wasted time and students getting off task if there is no
management techniques. In order to allow my students time-on-task while promoting an active
social learning space, I will implement set time limits for each activity and timed check-ins with my
students. Throughout the lesson, there are also plenty of metacognition checks where the students
can reflect on their learning and see where they are at and co-use/co-engagement activities
embedding into the lesson, so students are keeping each other on task while also collaborating.

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

This lesson supports UDL for representation through providing a variety of ways that the content is
represented. The lesson provides visual representation through images, videos, and visual examples.
It also provides auditory representation through the use of audio in videos and the teacher auditory
explaining things that are written out. The lesson further provides representation for kinesthetic
learners by providing them with activity books and games to help their learning as well as
completing their own poster project.
This lesson further supports UDL for engagement by allowing the students to have a choice in which
poster topic (which type of pollution) that they want to center their posters around. This allows for
students to be engaged in their learning and what they want to create to convey their understanding
of what they have learned.

Reflective Practice:

I believe that this lesson idea will help students build understanding in a way that they could not do
with traditional instructional tools because of the opportunity that the technology brings to the
lesson. This lesson takes a bunch of different sources and online activities and puts it all in one place
for the students. I believe that this is a game changer for planning lessons because it offers a way to
put everything that the teacher wants in the lesson all in one place instead of having to switch from
tab to tab, which makes the lesson scattered and all over the place, or taking out activities that could
benefit the learner. It consolidates the learning sources to make things easier for student learning
and understanding. This is also very important timewise, because it saves precious learning time and
allows for maximum learning time. I am looking forward to implementing all of the collaboration
opportunities in different ways for my students through this lesson because I want to see how my
students collaborate with each other and take control of their own understanding.

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