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The artifacts provided demonstrate clear educational outcomes, knowledge of resources, coherent instruction, and how to design student assessments. At the beginning of each unit I create a unit plan according to the backward design lesson planning model. At this point, I have referenced the state standards and educational goals and have compiled them in my unit plan-this way I know what I need to achieve and how I need to get there. This particular unit was on classification which lent itself well to utilizing the Chromebooks for research. In groups of four, students worked together to research information about a specific domain or kingdom. They had to work together to decide who was researching which components and then create a poster that represented their research. I also had each group present their poster to their peers. In order to prevent confusion, each student had a rubric with clearly laid out expectations. A document with website links was posted to Google Classroom so students had a research starting point. Even though I provided them with the information I wanted them to research, as a group they had to organize and decide how to present their research. This activity was inspired by the AVID One-Pager strategy and it served several purposes. First off, I wanted students to work together knowing there would be one grade assigned to the whole group. Secondly, I included in the rubric requirements such as writing an organisms genus and species so I scaffold classification information. Lastly, I left the rubric vague enough so students would have to determine what information they researched was critical to their presentation.
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