Link to Google Tour

http://sites.google.com/site/oceanandcontinents/my-files

Content- TPACK

Content

Standard 3
Students will develop an understanding of their environment.
Objective 3
Demonstrate how symbols and models are used to represent features of the environment.
Indicator D
Locate continents and oceans on a map or globe (i.e., North America, Antarctica, Australia, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean).

In the core content for first grade I am having children make observations between oceans and continents. The technology that I will be using for this activity will be Google Earth.

Virtual Tour Plan

Location	Activity	Google Earth Content
1. Pacific Ocean	Notice what continents this ocean is near.	Have terrain on.
2. Atlantic Ocean	See above.	Have terrain on.
3. Arctic Ocean	See above.	Have terrain on.
4. Indian Ocean	See above.	Have terrain on.
Details of image overlay / path / polygon:	Overlay a sea animal native to that ocean environment.

Digital Story Telling

Content: Old MacDonald

First Grade, Standard 1 Objective 3
Develop and use skills to communicate ideas, information, and feelings.

1. Recognize and express feelings in a variety of ways (e.g., draw, paint, tell stories, dance, sing).
2. Express how colors, values, and sizes have been controlled in artworks to create mood, tell stories, or celebrate events.
3. Sing a melody independently, with developing accuracy and a natural voice that is free from strain.
4. Create simple rhythm, movement, and melody patterns with body percussion and instruments.

This standard was taken from the Utah State Core Curriculum for First Grade Language Arts.

Pedagogy: Farm Animals and Literacy- I chose this because not only am I going into Elementary Education but because I am also a Music Educator and so I wanted to link up classroom teaching with music teaching. Children love animals and I thought by singing this song children could solidify what farm animals are versus forest or jungle animals. They could learn also to recognize the word symbols that belong to each animal in this presentation duck, pig, cow, horse, chick, and sheep and also expand upon it and discover even more farm animals that have been unexplored. The children would also be able to write about a farm animal themself and create a Digital Story from this experience.

As a Music Educator, I would be looking for the above standards and objectives throughout this project in the child's development musically as well as bridging the content with the Language Arts area. What is fun about Old MacDonald is, if I were doing this with children I would use the animal's sound opportunity for some vocal play, while singing, dancing, and improving our musical abilities. The Digital Story part allows us to focus on the visual arts aspect which will help children better connect with the feeling of the music when they can visualize what some of the possibilites are visually for this song.

Technology: iMovie and Garage Band- I used this technology because this is what I had available over this past weekend to create the Digital Story Telling assignment. The iMovie was to create the story of what Old MacDonald had on his farm and the sounds each animal made, as well as the Garage Band which recorded my singing and playing the guitar for this song and story.

Story Board

See the Digital Story Telling Blog (above) for the Content, Pedagogy, and Technologies used for this assignment of Old MacDonald.

TPACK Questions

The content for our lesson was the kindergarten standard 3 objective 1 c which states that " students will describe the information of each of the five senses provides with the change of the seasons."
The pedagogy used during this lesson is to have the students be able to collect pictures that represent all of the five senses in winter and document them using the scientific method. By learning the scientific method at a young age they will be able to use it through much more complex problems in their lives.
The technology we used in theis lesson was kispiration. It is an awesome tool for showing children what a brainstorm web looks like and letting them put one together. It is also a great tool to help them classify their data they collected and see all of their . It makes the learning process hands on even for a kindergartener.