Understanding By Design Digital Citizenship Unit

Title of Unit Digital Citizenship Grade Level Grade 1

Curriculum Area Technology/Computers/Language Arts Time Frame 1 week Developed By Leslie Walbert and Andrew Tran

Identify Desired Results (Stage 1) Content Standards ISTE: 5. Digital citizenship Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship and global awareness by engaging with colleagues and students of other cultures using digital age communication and collaboration tools. Common Core: RL.1, RL.4, W.5, W.7, W.8, L.1a, L.6

Understandings Essential Questions Overarching Understanding Overarching Topical

First grade students will search for animal pictures online by clicking on letters of the alphabet. They will learn that directory sites with alphabetical listings offer a way to find things online. After observing a search as a class presented on the projector by the teacher, children will be assigned a letter will do their search on a children’s directory site. Using the Animal Alphabet Book handout, students select and print out pictures to create their own picture dictionary. At the end, the class will have an alphabet book about animals.

• What is a dictionary? • What is the alphabet?

What does alphabetical order mean?

• What is the internet? • What is a picture dictionary? • What does it mean to search?

• How do we safely search online for things we want to know more about?

• How do we use the alphabet to search for something we want to know more about?

• How can we find pictures about animals?

• What websites can we use to safely search for pictures of animals?

Knowledge Students will know…

Skills Students will be able to…

How to safely search online by using the alphabet and understand how to search for a specified letter of the alphabet on a children’s directory site.

Search online safely using Photographic Dictionary and apply the results of their alphabet search to create a class picture dictionary.

Assessment Evidence (Stage 2) Performance Task Description

Goal For students to be able to learn how to safely search online by using the alphabet, understand how to search for a specified letter of the alphabet on a children’s directory site, apply the results of their alphabet search to create a class picture dictionary.

Role Teacher and Co-teacher Audience Grade 1 students

Situation

This particular class belongs to Green Hedges School. This is a private school located outside the Washington D.C. area. Students come from families who make mostly above average salaries. These students are fairly comfortable with using technology but have little knowledge of searching on the internet. We have a 2 teacher model and all lessons are done with 2 teachers. There are 17 students.

Product/Performance Students will be given a letter of the alphabet. Then they will search for pictures of animals that begin with that letter online. They will print out the pictures and cut and paste them to their Picture Dictionary handout.

Standards ISTE: 4. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices.

Lesson 1 and Lesson 2: Lesson 1: Introduction to Regular and Online Picture Dictionaries Warm-Up Activity: What is a dictionary?

• Gather students on the carpet and show them examples of a dictionary and a picture dictionary. Explain that dictionaries help give us information about many things and they are organized in alphabetical order. Ask students if they know that means?

• Explain to students that we are going to focus on a picture dictionary today. This kind of dictionary arranges pictures of things in alphabetical order.

• Where would you find a picture of a dog? -"Under D." • Where would you find a picture of a pig?- "Under P." • Explain that there is also a way to find pictures online.

Begin Lesson 1: Search Online Using the Alphabet

• Choose one of the following to explore as a class: Photographic Dictionary, Enchanted Learning, Kids Click, Kids Sites, Kidz Search, and Oxford Picture Dictionary. For this lesson, we will be referring to Photographic Dictionary.

• Project what you're searching on a screen or White Board in your classroom. • The co-teacher will explain to students that a way to search online for things is by using the alphabet. • Draw their attention towards the alphabet displayed across the top of the page. Tell children that to search for pictures of things whose names

begin with that letter, they need to click on the letter. • Click on the letter C to find pictures of things whose names begin with that letter. Demonstrate how to scroll down the first C page and go to

other pages that begin with C. Click on the picture of a Cat. Talk about how someone with the letter C might pick this to add to their alphabet book page.

• Invite the class to choose a picture from the A pages. Click on the name to go to the page for the selected picture. Print a copy of the page. • Explain to students that the class is going to make its own picture dictionary, and this picture will be on the very first page. • Teacher will project the “Our Picture Dictionary” handout on the board and demonstrate how to fill it out by taking the picture that you printed

and sticking it up on the board in the box on the worksheet. Take a marker and write “A” is for ________. Tell them that this is what they are going to do tomorrow.

Lesson 2: Search, Print, and Create Review yesterday’s lesson:

• Project the Photographic Dictionary website back up on the board. • Ask students if they remember how to search for animals on Photographic Dictionary. • Look at the A page that was completed altogether yesterday.

Begin Lesson 2:

• Hand out copies of the “Our Animal Alphabet Book” to each student • Assign each student a letter in the alphabet. (Students who finish early can do the remainder of alphabet pages since there are 17 students. The

A page was completed already). • Split up into 2 groups. One group with each teacher. One group will go into back part of the class while the other group will stay up front.

1. In each group, students should search for pictures by finding their letter and clicking on it. (Have students locate their assigned letters on the site’s home page.)

2. Choose a picture and click on it. (Once they click on their letters, students will see pictures and names of several things that begin with that letter. Ask students to choose any one of the pictures of an animal and click on it to go to the page for that picture.)

3. Students will print out their animal picture. (Help students take turns printing the pictures they have selected. 4. Students will write down their letter and the name of the thing in your picture. 5. Ask students to look at their handouts. Have students write their names on their pages. Then have them write their letters and copy the

names of the items in their picture at the top of their pages. 6. Students will cut out their picture and paste it onto your handout. 7. Students can decorate their page after they paste the picture onto their handouts. Students can color and embellish their pages as they like.

Lesson 3: Arrange Animal Picture Dictionary • Review what alphabetical order means by playing an interactive game: http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/alphaorder1.swf • Hand out the papers each student completed from the previous lesson. • Allow them to put themselves in alphabetical order. • A teacher will collect pages from each student and put them together. (They can later be put into a binder or folder) A teacher will hold up the

“book” and allow students to come up to explain the page that they worked on. • Show students other safe ways to search by projecting the following websites: Photographic Dictionary, Enchanted Learning, Kids Click, Kids

Sites, Kidz Search, or Oxford Picture Dictionary. Encourage students to practice this at home with a parent to create other books on their own.

Learning Plan (Stage 3) Where are your students headed? Where have they been? How will you make sure the students know where they are going?

Grade 1 students are learning to become digital citizens by safely searching online for pictures. I will model for my students how to do this correctly by taking them to a safe source for searching pictures.

How will you hook students at the beginning of the unit?

Students will be hooked at the beginning of the lesson by knowing that they will get to participate in creating a class picture dictionary by searching for animals. First graders love animals.

What events will help students experience and explore the big idea and questions in the unit? How will you equip them with needed skills and knowledge?

Students will experience and explore the big idea of the unit by getting to independently search for pictures of animals and create their page for the class book. I will model exactly what they are supposed to do and prepare all the necessary materials.

How will you cause students to reflect and rethink? How will you guide them in rehearsing, revising, and refining their work?

We will remind my students to make sure their picture correctly matches the letter and that their spelling is correct before they paste and write over with marker permanently. After the project is done, we will read it together as a class and reflect on how we did. We will also reflect on the importance of being safe as we search online.

How will you help students to exhibit and self-evaluate their growing skills, knowledge, and understanding throughout the unit?

We will have students share their work and explain why they chose their particular animal for their assigned letter.

How will you tailor and otherwise personalize the learning plan to optimize the engagement and effectiveness of ALL students, without compromising the goals of the unit?

I will tailor the plan by doing extra modeling for students who need more guidance or pulling students into smaller groups to work more intimately if necessary. My co-teacher will also pull students aside if necessary.

How will you organize and sequence the learning activities to optimize the engagement and achievement of ALL students?

The lessons will be organized into a 2-3 day lesson. It could be spread out into a week for others, depending on how much time you have allotted for this type of activity. Each lesson should only be 30 minutes for first graders due to their ability to concentrate for small periods of time.