Link to Virtual Tour

Here is the link to the America's Expansion Virtual Tour I created on GoogleEarth.

TPACK for Virtual Tour

What is the content you’ll be using in your lesson?
The content I will be using is:
Standard 4
Students will understand that the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth.

Objective 1
Investigate the significant events during America's expansion and the roles people played.

What is the pedagogy you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content?
I will be teaching the students about significant evens during the expansion of America, including the expansion of the railroad, and key places along the path in America's expansion.

What is the technology you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?
I will be using GoogleEarth and other various websites in order for the students to complete this assignment. 

Virtual Tour Plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Manifest Destiny	The students will go to the designated website and learn  about the manifest destiny by completing a fantastic worksheet.	The students will use the GoogleEarth tool that lets them measure the distance from coast to coast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny
2. Lousiana Purchase	The students will learn about this significant  land purchase that  increased the size of the United States.	The students will look United States and how the Louisiana Purchase increased the size of the U.S. and how it compares to what the U.S. looks like today.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
3. First Transcontinental Railroad	The students will look at the designated website    and complete the  questions on the website.	The students will measure the distance between  Omaha and Sacramento, where the railroad is, on GoogleMaps.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_railroad
4. Promontory Point	The students will look at a website and look at the important role that promontory point plays in the transcontinental railroad, while completing a worksheet.	The students will use GoogleMaps to locate promontory point, and learn more about the Golden Spike. http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html
Details of image overlay / path / polygon: The students will use Google maps to identify different historical points on the map.

Kenn Nesbitt I Wrote Myself A Letter

TPACK for Storyboard

What is the content you’ll be using in your lesson?
For this lesson, we will be using the third grade language arts Standard 1, which is:

Standard 1
Oral Language-Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through listening, speaking, viewing, and presenting.

Objective 1
Develop language through listening and speaking.

Objective 2
Develop language through viewing media and presenting.

What is the pedagogy you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content?

The pedagogy will be interwoven with the technology as we illustate poems and stories. They will narrate their own stories in their movie. They will have an opportunity to to merge english, art, and technology in this lesson.

What is the technology you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?

 The children will choose a poem that they want to illustrate and make into a movie. They will be creating a storyboard with paper and pencil, from the poem or story that they chose to illustrate. Then they will be illustrating their stories using power point, or if they want to, they can use art supplies to illustrate their stories (and scan in their illustrations). Once the story is illustrated they will then create a movie, using either powerpoint or iMovie. 

Storyboard for I Wrote Myself a Letter By Kenn Nesbitt

Here is storyboard we created for Kenn Nesbitt's poem, I Wrote Myself a Letter.

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TPCK Application

What is the content you are focusing on in your science lesson?

In our science lesson, we focused on Standard 3, Objective 1 which is about rocks and minerals. 

What is the pedagogy you are using and why is it a good fit with the content?

In this lesson we are focusing on critical thinking skills about how the salt and sugar mix with water. It is important for the students to be able to think about what they are learning, and why they get the results that they do. 

What is the technology you’ll be using and why is it a good fit with the content and pedagogy?

In this lesson, we used the electronic microscope to view the sugar and salt crystals and capture video of the water being dropped onto the salt and sugar.