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**iPad Lesson Plan 1: Visual Arts Using Web 2.0 Tools**

**By Brian Van Voorhees** **Bell Middle School** **Jefferson County Schools**

//Grade Level: 8th Grade // //Subject Area: U.S. History // //Students will show mastery of Colorado History Assessment Standards 1, 2 & 3 // //Length of Unit: 10, 50-minute class periods //


 * Technology Prerequisites: **
 * iPads/Mac computers
 * Wifi/internet connection


 * Student must know how to: **
 * use an iPad according to school policy
 * copy and save picture to the desktop
 * use a touchscreen/keypad
 * save work on a daily basis
 * visit websites on the internet using Safari
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work with Voicethread
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post to the class Wiki
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post and cite appropriate credits/avoid plagerism


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Student will be able to: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore images on Google images
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Design, organize, edit and present a Voicethread presentation from [|www.voicethread.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Post to the Class Wiki

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">History Standard ET-IL 3: Students understand the nature of societies and that societies are diverse and have changed over time <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">History Standards 1 and 2 that consist of processing skills used throughout the year. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Key Component 3.1 Understanding the development of social organization in various societies <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Benchmark #1 Student identifies factors that bring people to form societies. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Benchmark #2 Student explains how roles of people have different throughout history <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Benchmark #3 Student explains how changing roles have affected the characteristics of social organization <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Benchmark #4 Student compares the diverse types of social organization that have formed in this historical era.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colorado Model Content Standards Addressed: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tools and Websites: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skitch.com- Web-based program that can be used by Windows users to allow for amazing screen capturing, photo/image/drawing manipulation, editing, and editing.Voicethread – Web-based program that allows the user to create dynamic presentations [|www.voicethread.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Images- Web-based program that allows people to view a collection of on-line images from the web. [|www.google.com/images]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Class wiki- [|www].wikispaces.com


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Programs: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Skitch and Skitch.com- Skitch is a free application for Macs that works together with the website to allow for amazing screen capturing, photo/image/drawing manipulation, editing, and editing. Skitch.com can be used by Windows users as well. But, only iPad and Mac users can download and use the free Skitch application on their computers. Skitch is very user-friendly, and it has its own helpful tutorials.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voicethread – Web-based program that allows the user to create dynamic presentations [|www.voicethread.com]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Images- Web-based program that allows people to view a collection of on-line images from the web. [|www.google.com/images]

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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Hardware: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mac Computer or iPad– with access to the Internet; 1 per student or pair of students
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Microphone (optional) - needed to record student’s voice; 1 per student
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Headphones (optional) – most 8th grade students own a set
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other Supplies: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Projector, empty wall space, charcoal, paint, measuring tape, and other art supplies

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Introduction:** During the Unit that leads up to the Final Project described in this Lesson Plan, the students will have completed a section of reading out of the class text “America’s Past and Promise”. They will have read and discussed a book about Sacajawea and taken quizzes about that book. They will also have blogged about their findings in researching Sacajawea on-line to fill in gaps of information left by that book. The class will have engaged in discussion about the Lewis & Clark Expedition and the theme of Manifest Destiny.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instructional Plan: **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This Unit will be about the Lewis and Clark Expedition and will develop and use the students’ visual literacy to learn about, understand, and teach others about the Expedition and its significance. As part of the process, students will be assigned to search on-line for images that depict or exemplify the goals, aims, people, events, animals, places, and other ideas about the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The plan is to have students capture and upload photos and other images using Skitch to create their own mural design proposals. Skitch is a free application for Macs that works together with the website to allow for amazing screen capturing, photo/image/drawing manipulation, editing, and editing. [|www.Skitch.com] can be used by Windows users as well. But, only Mac users can download and use the free Skitch application on their computers. Skitch is very user-friendly, and it has its own helpful tutorials.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will also go the Colorado History Museum’s website and look at the Colorful Colorado Montage Mural []. Students will summarize what they learned about Colorado history from looking at the mural and reading the image descriptions and post their summaries either in writing in the class wiki or via iMovie.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Afterwards, the students will be placed into teams and each team will select eleven images that they believe best represent the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The teams will upload the images they choose via Skitch and incorporate them into a Voicethread ([|www.voicethread.com]) that shows the images and the students’ posts about why they chose it. Using Skitch will allow the students to access images via screen capture, if necessary, and will allow them to resize the images and outline or color-in, or write comments directly on the images. Skitch.com may not be as useful to the students in this Unit only because it is more for use as a sharing hub while Skitch itself is the tool that they will be able to use to obtain and manipulate the images. Finally, the teams will review the Voicethreads posts by their classmates. They will then choose the two posts that they think make the best argument and include the best selection of images. They will write a review of the posts they chose that describes why they chose them and why others should agree. They will post their reviews on the Wiki.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will have to do some foundational work to orient them and prepare for the creation of their final project. They will use the internet to explore Google Images to find relevant visual interpretations of the themes and subjects that they believe best represent the Lewis & Clark Expedition and the impact it had on American history. After choosing images, the students will post their choices on Voicethread and explain their choices by posting comments on Voicethread. After the entire class has a chance to post their choices and their arguments supporting them, they will review one another’s posts and then come to a decision about what content they will use in the creation of their class mural.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The final project will allow the students to experience preparing for something that nobody has done before them and to create a permanent work of art for others to view and learn from in the future. This lesson plan is designed to get students to review people and events at the end of a unit and then to develop and show an understanding about the people/events by applying state standards. Students will identify basic relationships between their subjects and relevant themes associated with their subjects. They will explore artistic impressions of the themes and subjects, and finally, express their own interpretations through the creation of a mural.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will participate in a short foundational discussion using the following progression:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introductory Activity – Days 1-2 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Define “Explorer”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Identify the characteristics
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explain why President Thomas Jefferson was to get funding from Congress for the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pretend you are an Historian writing a book about Sacajawea in 2010 and defend your position that she was a key figure in the success of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The people involved in the Lewis & Clark Expedition had to prepare for the expedition without knowing what they would need along the way. Think about a situation where you had to prepare for the unknown. Provide a critique of the process that President Thomas Jefferson used to prepare for the Expedition.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compare and Contrast the process he used with the process you used in the situation you encountered.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Images- Days 1-2 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will work independently or in groups of two (2) to research and identify images on Google Images that serve to illustrate what the Lewis & Clark Expedition means to them. Using Google Images will allow them to view a wide range of historic and contemporary imagery that they would not otherwise have access to if they were only able to research relevant imagery in the library. They will use the following instructions to guide the process:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Search on-line via Google images, the Library of Congress, National Geographic, and PBS for images that depict or exemplify the goals, aims, people, events, animals, places, and other ideas about the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Keep a log of the images you view and categorize the images you see into the following categories: Economic, Political, Religious, Social, Scientific, Geographical, Biological, Cultural, and Geological. Your log can be kept on a Word Document or a piece of paper.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Go the Colorado History Museum’s website and look at the Colorful Colorado Montage Mural []. Summarize what you learned about Colorado history from looking at the mural and reading the image descriptions. Post your summary on the class Wiki.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Voicethread and Class Wiki-Days 3-4 **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will capture and manipulate the images they chose using Skitch and will post their image choices on Voicethread. Using Skitch and Voicethread will save on paper and ink. It will also allow for UDL modifications that will encourage and allow a broader participation among the students than traditional classroom discussion does. In addition. Using Voicethread and the class wiki provides real time interaction among the students and a record for them to refer to later. It will also be easy for them to edit and post updated thoughts to as the project progresses.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will be working in groups of two (2). They will be asked to post their arguments or explanations in support of the images that they have chosen. Afterwards, they will review the Voicethread presentations posted by their classmates and post their reviews on the class Wiki. Finally, the class will make decisions together about what to include in the class mural. Instructions to the students will be as follows:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In your team, select eleven images that you believe best represent the Lewis & Clark Expedition and defend your selection in a Voicethread that shows each image and why you chose it. (Each individual in the team must include a post in the team’s Voicethread.)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Review the Voicethread posts by your classmates. Choose the two posts that you think made the best argument and included the best selection of images. Write a review of the posts you chose that describes why you chose them and why others should agree with you. Post your review on the Wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reevaluate your own images that you posted on your Voicethread and post new comments about how you think you should modify the images your team chose or the arguments that you made to defend them to make it a more accurate representation of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find other murals that depict significant historic events. Why do or don’t they help you to understand what they are about? For example: Is it in chronological order, does the size of the image give you a feel for its importance? How does the background of the mural interact with the images on top of it? Design your own guide for the creation of a mural that would best help somebody to understand the Lewis & Clark Expedition and post your guide on the class Wiki. Based on the Wiki discussions, we will choose the images that we want to include in creating our own Lewis & Clark Expedition mural.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will gather their chosen images and organize them to create a template for their mural. Once the template is completed, the template will be projected onto the wall using a document camera and projector. The students will take turns tracing the outlines onto the wall with charcoal or pencils. Once the outlines are drawn, the students will divide up portions to the mural to paint and complete.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mural – Days 6-14 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students will be able to view their completed mural and present it to the rest of the school. The mural will serve as a reminder of the work they did to provide a visual interpretation of the Lewis & Clark Expedition for generations to come.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">II. Conclusion **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rubric/Checklist for Students: **
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you: ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participate in the class discussion on Days 1 and 2? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Were your comments, questions, critiques useful to the discussion on Days 1 and 2? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you research and choose images on Google Images? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you keep a log of the images you chose and note the categories you placed them into? (Economic, Political, Religious, Social, Scientific, Geographical, Biological, Cultural, and Geological) ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you post a summary about what you learned about Colorado history from looking at the Mural on the Colorado History Museum’s website on the class wiki? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you use Skitch to assemble your images? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you post the images you chose on Voicethread? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you post explanations or arguments supporting the images you choose on Voicethread? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you review your classmates’ Voicethread posts and write your reviews on the class Wiki? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you reevaluate your own images that you posted on your Voicethread and post new comments on the Wiki about how you think you should modify the images your team chose or the arguments that you made to defend them to make it a more accurate representation of the Lewis & Clark Expedition? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you design your own guide for the creation of a mural that would best help somebody to understand the Lewis & Clark Expedition and post your guide on the class Wiki? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you help to create the template for the class mural? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you help to trace the outline of the mural? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you help with painting the mural? ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did you help to present the mural? ||  ||   ||