Sample+Lessons+and+Rubrics

Rigor & Relevance Sample Lessons
===**These examples represent high levels of both rigor and relevance and are all the result of collaboration with an instructional coach. Most projects of this type have the following in common:** === Please note: Many examples on this page are for presentation purposes only. Most project wikis are private and can only be accessed by request. flat
 * **They have AUTHENTIC AUDIENCE and purpose**
 * **They challenge students to TRANSFORM information and curricular content, not just present it**
 * **They utilize TECHNOLOGY as a way to enhance understanding** **and/or showcase learning**
 * **They offer STUDENT CHOICE offering multiple pathways to an unpredictable final product**

=Math Lesson Samples = Students calculate costs for various home renovations by selecting materials and calculating various areas of a house. This project utilizes Google Docs for teacher feedback as well as Google Sketch Up for designing 3-D renderings of kitchen and garden layouts. **Trigonometry--House Project** Students apply trig skills to research costs in buying a house in this Wiki and Google Doc based project. **Algebra II--Relevancy Videos** All Algebra II students finish he year by creating a video that shows a relevant, real-world application of a specific math concept covered throughout the year. Teacher selected examples are used the following year to introduce units. **Pre-Calc--Polar Coordinate Simulation** Pre-Calc students do a simulated mission acting as air traffic controllers and Red Cross workers. The project utilizes ipods, QR codes, video conferencing and Facetime and applies knowledge of polar coordinates as well as a review of pre-calc concepts taught throughout the year**.**
 * Integrated Algebra II--House Renovation Area Webquest **
 * Project Wiki
 * [[file:Area+Webquest+Template.docx]]
 * [[file:Area Webquest Rubric.docx]]
 * Project Wiki
 * Student Example
 * [[file:Trig Rubric House Project.docx]]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student Video Resource Wiki
 * [[file:Alg II Vodcast Rubric.doc]]
 * Mash-up of student examples, used as a showcase during open house:
 * media type="youtube" key="hbh2W78drnI" height="335" width="447"
 * [[file:Rescue Missions project.doc]]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[[file:Mission Relief Rubric 2012.doc]]

=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Science Lesson Samples = <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**AP Chemistry-- Relevance Video Project** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This project is a perfect example of students taking ownership of material and transforming it into something original and relevant. At the end of the year, AP Chem students are asked to select a topic that has been covered through the course and create an original video that will be used to introduce the concept to next year's students. The objective is to show relevant applications as well as an overview/introduction of the topic to a student audience. Students design websites that teach classmates properties and relevant application of chemical materials. The objective is to utilize a variety of mulitmedia tools to create an engaging, research based website that will be reviewed and evaluated by peers. This project utilizes Wiki project pages as a web-design platform, various web 2.0 tools, and Google Forms for peer evaluation. Project Wiki (Sample projects can be found under the Projects link at the top of the page.
 * [[file:110211_Rubric_APChemistryVideo.docx]]
 * **Project Example:**
 * media type="youtube" key="QFH8R_CHCk4" height="288" width="509"
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Chemistry-Modern Materials Website Design Project **
 * [[file:APPLICATION ASSIGNMENT FOR MODERN MATERIALS.docx]]
 * [[file:Chem Mod Materials Project Rubric.docx]]
 * Student Wiki design resource page

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Horticulture-- Website Design Project** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The objective of this project is for high school horticulture students to design a website that could be used to teach third graders the principles of plant life cycle. The emphasis is again on transforming information, this time to make it engaging, interactive and accessible for third graders. The class evaluated peer's sites and those with the most engaging sites got to use their tool to help teach a lesson to a class of third graders in our district.
 * [[file:Hort Project Rubric.docx]]
 * Project Wiki
 * Example Project: http://www.wix.com/adeemer43/hort

=**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">English and Language Arts Lesson Examples **= <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This video project is completed during the reading of Julius Caesar, just after the assassination in Act III. Students watch sample political ads, analyzing them for rhetorical devices, then create their own ad that promotes either Brutus or Marc Antony as the next leader of Rome. The objective is to utilize rhetorical devices in careful selection of text, music and images and to apply an understanding of plot and character.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">English 10-Julius Caesar Political Ad Project **

Students work in groups to create a travel blog that promotes a modern day cruise down the Mississippi River. The objective is to create an exciting promotional package that sells a cruise to potential passengers, ties in plenty of details from the novel, and explores the history and current culture along the Mississippi River. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**English 9- Romeo and Juliet mock Facebook** Students create Facebook type wiki pages for characters, then use a wiki discussion board to give and respond to "status updates" in character for each act. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Public Speaking --****Beyond the Bubble Prezi** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This is an example of a lesson co-designed and co-taught with the instructional coach and is based on Common Core speaking and listening standards. The objective was for students to create awareness about a social issue of both local and global significance through a collaborative presentation that promotes advocacy and is aimed at their peers.
 * [[file:Caesar Animoto_rubric.docx]]
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[file:Political Ad Analysis (Caesar).docx]]
 * Student samplemedia type="custom" key="20496126"
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">English 9-Huck Finn River Cruise Project **
 * Project Blog
 * [[file:Huckleberry Finn Project.doc]]
 * [[file:Huck Finn Blog Rubric II.docx]]
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Project Example
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sample posts for student evaluation
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Project Wiki
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Student Prezi Example: http://prezi.com/ajx-91xojw6v/littering/
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="custom" key="20492886"

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Tenth Grade English****--multi-purpose Learning Portals** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This wiki represents the collaborative efforts of a coach and a classroom teacher to design and implement a dynamic classroom website. This site also includes a digital lit circle format for teaching John Krakauer's //Into the Wild// as well as a Julius Caesar political advertisement lesson where students reviewed past and recent political ads and created one of their own for Brutus or Mark Anthony following Caesar's assassination. For more information and examples of the power of learning portals, visit www.learningportals.wikispaces.com.
 * Class Wiki

=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Social Studies Lesson Examples = <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**American History-Letters From the Civil War** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students research primary source letters from the civil war, then create their own dramatic reading of an original letter that incorporates primary source photographs and music. Project is wiki based and is completed in full on Ipads using I-Movie. Sample Student Project media type="youtube" key="24pFtZlag1M" height="315" width="560" Students explore the lives of various historical figures by first creating a mock Facebook page about the person, then working in groups to create a "dinner table dialogue" that highlights significant details from the figures lives.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Project Wiki that includes examples and rubric.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">World History-Look Who's Coming to Dinner? **
 * Project Wiki

=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Elective Area Lesson Examples = <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Wellness-- Website Design Project**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Similar to the Horticulture project above, the objective of this project is for students to design a website that would be used as a teaching tool for various student health related issues. The content was not covered in class, but instead taught student to student as they reviewed and assessed each other's projects.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Example Project : http://www.wix.com/melx335/melanieangelmatt-wellness#!chest-injuries

Sponsored by the French Embassy, this cross continental project had students compare the election processes of France and US by creating, submitting, and evaluating video projects. The objective of the video was to explain our election process to students in France and for them to do the same for us.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">French IV-- Regards Transatlantiques **
 * [[file:Regards Transatlantiques.doc]]
 * Project Website with Videos

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