1. Title of Lesson
Dogs or Cats

2. Teacher’s Name
Mr. Shively

3. Email Address
shive6@gmail.com

4. Grade Level
3 – 5

5. Content Area
English Language Arts

6. What New York State Standard is your lesson addressing?
ELA Standard 3 Language for Literary Response and Expression

8. What is the Performance Indicator of the key idea?
Form an opinion on a subject on the basis of information, ideas, and themes expressed in presentations

9. Choose the teaching methods that your lesson utilizes to support Affective Learning
Offered Choices of Learning Context

10. Choose the teaching methods that your lesson utilizes to support Strategic Learning
Provided Opportunities to Practice with Supports

11. Choose the teaching methods that your lesson utilizes to support Recognition Learning
Provided Multiple Examples,Highlighted Critical Features

12. Instructional Delivery Method (How or where will you teach this lesson – just guess – but know there are many ways to deliver a lesson)
Wireless Computer Lab

13. Savings Plan
Internet Saving (accessible from any computer in the world) I will ask what service you are using

14. Materials
Firefox, Quicknote, paper, blog

15. URL of Web Site
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/portal/site/Kids/menuitem.5b1c7b0f2785ed81b92c3010ca248a0c/?vgnextoid=90ba8ec83ea50110VgnVCM1000000100007fRCRD&vgnextchannel=5778edfab621d010VgnVCM1000006640a8c0RCRD

16. What are your objectives for this lesson? – (use verbs from Bloom’s Taxonomy)
1. Use Quicknote to Organize Information 2. Publish opinions to a blog anonymously

17. What is the Essential Question for this lesson?
Which animal makes a better pet, a cat or a dog?

18. Describe the procedure for this lesson – how are you going to teach it?

1. Open Firefox and Quicknote
   
2. Navigate to my web site
   
3. Let them open the math cactus in a new tab and choose Math Facts >> any one they wish (this is to provide them with something to do while if they finish quicker than others)
   
4. Open the blogging cactus in a new tab
   
5. Choose the lesson category of my blog
   
6. Read the question – answer the question by typing in Quicknote – type in tab #2
   
7. Tell the kids that they need to provide details from a web site to support their opinion.
   
8. Take them to the web site and show them the three sections in which they must read (Give them the opportunity to read together or alone)
9. Before they are set free, practice sending information to Quicknote – these ideas will be their details of support
   
10. Ask the kids how many details are sufficient to support their opinion
    
11. Let them read and add ideas to quicknote
    
12. For those quick finishers, they can visit the math facts
    
13. Visit the blog tab and post their information to the comment section of the blog
    
14. Have kids read through the comments
    
15. Have kids self-assess
    
16. Did they have the number of details to support their opinion?