This is a lesson plan idea I had for my Educ. 310 class.
Lesson Plan
-Design a website for a hotel somewhere outside US.
BIG IDEA:
To get students exposed to other areas of the world, cultures, and people.
RESOURCES:
Internet (Research)
Photoshop (Design, Creativity)
Google Earth (Geography)
Blog/Wiki/Facebook (Networking, Tech. Problem Solving)
Youtube
Questions
What hotel?
Where?
Why should we stay there?
What activities are there?
How expensive is it?
When is the best time to go?
What are the people/culture like?
What are some sites to see?
How can you make an attractive advertisement site?
Learning Activity
Use Google maps or Google Earth to find a hot vacation spot.
Research the area and hotel using any resource on the web.
Find reviews (video or written) of your hotel and location.
Choose medium for website (Blog, Facebook, Wikispaces, Etc.)
Design website displaying you information in an interesting and captivating way.
Use photoshop to design your own images to use on your website.
Comment on each others sites and tell them how likely you are to choose their hotel.
RUBRIC
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
Research | Includes a lot of important information and significant detail and depth. | Includes enough important information and reasonable detail and depth | Some decent information is given. Lacks detail and depth. | No important information evident. |
Design | Clearly displays information and research in a creative and interesting way. | Displays information in a clear way with some signs of creativity | Information is displayed in a distracting and unclear way. Little to no creativity is shown | No signs of creativity evident. |
Communication | Many comments show interesting thoughts and ideas. | Comments show some thought and depth | Few comments show little thought and lacks depth | No comments made |
4 comments:
That sounds like fun!
Mike,
I made this post on your blog....
Mike, I love the idea. It has creativity, decision making and critical thinking all over it. Here are a few suggestions to help beef it up..
Purpose? Needs an authentic purpose. Why do you want to expose them to other cultures? Can they pick any random place to stay? Do they have a budget? You have the technology ideas down, but don't lose sight of what you want to kids to learn. That's the most important piece. Ask yourself, "What is it I want the kids to learn?"
Figure out why you would have kids do a project like this. Your rubric should reflect the learning, not so much the technology. Be specific on the rubric- what does "enough" mean? How do you measure creativity? Give specific, measurable criteria. Otherwise, your students will argue every point they've made.
I hope this is helpful insight.
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