GRADE LEVEL: 3
OBJECTIVE: Using the technology available to students and teachers in the
Patchogue -Medford School District, Students
Will
Be
Able
To
· Access the Internet using e-mail
· Gather and interpret information from children's reference books, magazines, textbooks, electronic bulletin boards, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, and from such forms as charts, graphs, maps and diagrams
· Select information appropriate to the purpose of their investigation and relate ideas from one text to another
· Interpret information found on subject
· Discriminate between important and unimportant information
· Students will explore using models as a problem solving strategy
· Explore using
a plan as a problem solving strategy
New York State Standards Addressed
.
ELA Standard 1- Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing for information and understanding
Standard 2-Students will read, write, listen and speak for literary response and expression
Standard 3- Students will read, write, listen and speak for critical analysis and evaluation
Standard 4-Students will read, write, listen and speak for social interactions
MS&T
Standard 1-develop strategies for selecting the appropriate computational and operational method in problem solving
Standard 2.1- Accessing,,generating, processing and transferring information using appropriate technologies.
Standard 4- Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science
Standard 5.3 Students will apply technological
knowledge and skills to design, construct, use and evaluate products and
systems to satisfy human and environmental needs
Procedure:
1. Group children in teams of four to six students for center work
2. Organize students according to assignments
3. With two students per computer, students will access the Internet to read for information
4. Students will choose one page of Math stories
5. Students will cooperatively print and answer questions chosen at site for Mathstories
6. Students will have agreed upon period of time at each Center to complete assignment
7. Students will enter the Internet through the Internet book on the School Vista bookshelf
8. Students will click on the left hand box, the Read mail box
9. Students will click on READ at the bottom of the screen
10. Students will click on the paper clip in the upper right hand corner of the screen to access sites
11. Students will resume Internet work in groups,
answering questions at MonsterMath site
Evaluation
Students will complete assignment in agreed period of time
Students will present completed assignment and
use in peer mentoring sessions with teammates
SUGGESTED SITES FOR MATH WORD PROBLEMS
http://www.lifelong.com/lifelong_universe/AcademicWorld/MonsterMath/NTEng/NTQ1.html
A.Handler L. Schaefer
Grade 3 Grade 3
Bay Elementary Bay Elementary
SUGGESTED CENTERS
CENTER I
WRITING
Students attempt to make up real life word problems
to be solved by classmates
CENTER II
Work Groups