Instructional+Plan

Audience and Pre-requisites  Our audience is 50 seventh-grade students (35 girls and 15 boys) enrolled in a communications and humanities magnet program at Summerwood Middle School in Salisbury on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. As these students have self-selected to be in this program, we are assuming that they have strong linguistic intelligence and interpersonal intelligence. Our unit will use all other forms of multiple intelligences in presenting and reviewing the project to with the students. However, we have chosen to focus on the linguistic intelligence and interpersonal intelligence for their final project.

We are assuming that our students have previously learned the basic technology skills required to create their final projects, including some familiarity with conducting Internet research and properly citing their sources, creating basic videos and podcasts, manipulating images, and setting up a basic blog. The teacher and school media specialist will be available to assist students with any of these skills, but will not need to explicitly teach them as part of this unit.   Instructional Plan The instructional plan is based on a block schedule with five 90-minute periods a week. We will include plans for the following: · Day 1: A 90-minute lesson to introduce the rainforest and discuss the issue of the loss of rainforest · Day 2: A 90-minute lesson to continue learning about the rainforest and how students can help save it. · Day 3: A 90-minute lesson on researching using NoodleTools to cite resources and to allow time for students to decide on form of final project and work on projects in groups and research. · Day 4: A 90-minute period to allow students to research and create their final projects. · Day 5: A 90-minute period to allow students to present their projects as well as have a follow-up discussion