Culminating+Activities

=__ Culminating Activity #1- Elevator Speech __=

The UDL opens the curriculum to everyone by providing multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement. Cindy and Maria

Mary Ann & Bruce

**UDL is a collection of techniques that we can use in our current curriculums and classrooms to help all learners reach their goals.**

**Lossie and Cynthia and Brian**

It’s flexible, provides options, is engaging and accommodating. It is visual and offers variety. It is for ALL of your students! UDL looks at the goals you have for your students. Then prepares methods and materials tailored to the needs of EACH student. We round it out by providing a variety of assessment techniques to see if the information was understood.

Heather and Alison

Michael drives into the lake

= __Culminating Activity #2- Lesson Plan/Activity: Requirements:__ =
 * __Work with someone__
 * __Include Goals, Methods, Materials, Assessment__

Brian and Cynthia

Summarizing a Story

Goal - Students will be able to summarize a story

Methods - Group Instruction, Independent Work Time, Peer Editing

Materials - Internet, Laptops, Taxedo, Wordle, Wikispaces

Procedure: Teacher will share tips on how to effectively summarize a story

Teacher will show students where on Wikipedia to access the particular story they chose

Teacher will give students silent time to read the story on their own

Teacher will encourage the students to pair n share a discussion about the story with a partner

Teacher will give the students some time to “reply” their summary on the wiki

Students will then peer edit each other’s summaries, discussing any important points that have arisen

Students will have the option to present their summaries using either wordle, tagxedo, or chart paper

Assessment: Teacher will monitor the peer discussions, acting as a facilitator

Teacher will use an observational checklist to make sure the students cover the main points of summarization

The final presentation itself, and the explanation the students provide for the class

Lesson Plan Lossie and Maria

Goal: Each student will develop a character sketch based on the book__, Crow Boy.__ Methods: Group instruction, teacher conferencing, independent work time Materials: Crow Boy, paper or online version, construction paper (for those students who prefer a more tactile approach), Scholastic internet website for Character scrapbook, pencils, markers, etc. Assessment: Each student will develop a Character scrapbook sketch.

__**TRANSFOR-MOTION DANCE ROUTINE**__

//This activity is scalable as an anticipatory set for a 4th grade geometry unit through high school Geometry Honors.//

Goals: Introduce students to symmetry transformations movements in the coordinate plane (coordinate plane for grade 6 and above)

Methods: After performing a simple choreographed routine (supplied), students will choreograph their own dance routine using flips (reflections), turns/spins (rotations), slides, (translations) and shrinks/stretches (dilations). Choreography can be done with background music or specifically to selected music.

Materials: Dance floor (cleared classroom or gym 25' x 25' or parking lot), painters tape and duct tape or colored chalk for lines.

Assessment: Completed choreography written using symmetry terminology.

(see attached lesson plan)

-- Mr. Bruce Chamberlain

**// UDL Lesson Plan Created by Heather, Alison, Mary Ann, and Cindy  //**

** Goal: ** Students will compare and contrast rural and urban, communities.

** Methods: ** Class will collaboratively list characteristics of each type of community on chart paper to be displayed (visual learners). Students can choose to work independently or with a partner to create a Venn diagram to compare/contrast the communities. Options include: draw on paper, utilize laptop to create a Venn diagram through “Kidspiration”, write sentences on strips to place in hula-hoop Venn diagrams (kinesthetic learners).

 * // Modifications: cut pictures and glue to proper side of pre-made Venn diagram, write a real estate ad persuading people to move to your type of community. //

** Materials: ** laptops, chart paper, markers, hula-hoops, teacher selected pictures, pencils, sentence strips, crayons, premade Venn diagrams, paper, glue sticks, scissors

** Assessment: ** Teacher uses checklist to record specified criteria as students present their project in “Gallery Presentation” format. = = **__Culminating Activity #3- Who is the Net Generation?__**

To: Colleague, Principal, Superintendent, PTA president, personal friend From: Heather H. Re: What is the Net Generation?

The Net Generation is the student we see everyday in our elementary, middle, and high schools. They have a different way of approaching learning, then any of us have, and to look at their learning styles, it would almost seem foreign for us. However, as an educator, we must tap into their learning style and support it in the best way possible. After all, we want these students to grow up to be successful members of society. To do this, we need to incorporate technology and hands-on learning. We need to engage their interest and tailor our classroom instruction for them. They are used to instant gratification, whether that be on their laptops, cell phones, or ipods. It’s time to embrace these pieces of technology and see the benefits they have for our classrooms, rather than wasting our efforts in resisting the change we see happening all around us.

Brian Principal, Assistant Principal, Curriculum Supervisor, Business Administrator, Father

The net generation consists of a lot of the teachers we have in our building today. We’re familiar with technology, but we probably have a resistance to the newest forms of communication and education delivery. Our students can probably research and share information via social media quicker than we can. We value the importance of emerging technologies, but may be a bit stuck in our ways. We must learn the value of these new technologies and then be able to teach them to our students. We can get them to use these new methods to engage a limitless world of opportunity.

Cynthia //Who is the Net Generation?//

<span style="background-color: #aaffaa; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">//The Net Generation are the people who are Digital Immigrants. They are the ones who are just learning the new technology that we should all become familiar with especially in the education field. Our students are not a part of the Net Generation. The 5 people that I would explain the net generation to is the principal, media center specialist, two teachers, and a friend of mine who has not opened a Facebook account.//

From: Bruce To: My Principal,, Supervisor, MEF Board President, Superintendent & Wife,

The Net Generation is a new generation of children who have grown up in the digital age. They do not recognize life without apps, facebook, ebay, and e-readers. Though they may occasionally use one, a desktop computer seem like an abacus to them. They are multi-taskers-squared. They are impatient and require relevant and immediate engagement. They recognize expert assistance can come from peers, or those younger or older. They recognize that they can teach peers, or those younger or older. And this distinction doesn't bother them in the least, so we cannot let it bother us.

All students must have an internet device available to them at all times, whether it is a device that they own or a device that the school provides to them. Robust learning can only occur in this cyber-connected environment.

MaryAnn Capobianco To: Sue: Administrator, Sandy: Teacher Theresa: Teacher Maria: Teacher Greg: Husband

The Net Generation are students in our class and the children in our family. They only know a world with technology. They are digital learners. They are growing up with the internet, face book, twitter, iPhones, laptops, I pads, Xboxes, video games, digital cameras. They want instant gratification. They like freedom and choice when learning new information.

Lossie

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19px;">Culminating Activity #3 - Anita O'Neal, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction and Curriculum

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19px;"> Rosalie Lamonte, Superintendent of Schools

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19px;"> Mayor Corey Booker, Mayor of Newark

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19px;"> Senator Ronald Rice

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19px;"> Bishop Claude Lee Campbell, National Bishop of United Church of God

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19px;"> Yolanda Denise Johnson, Friend

<span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 19px;"> I would like to take this opportunity to share with each of you some information about the net generation. This is our children/learners who from birth have had the exposure of technology. Everything they do involves the use of technology. They are innovative and require a multi-modality approach to learning. These learners are part of a fast-paced environment and require stimulation in order to remain focused and interested in learning. They are at the cutting edge of technology and discover new things daily.

Maria

To: Governor Christie, State senator, MSF(Mahwah Schools Foundation), Principal, and my sister:

The Net generation is those students for whom the usual just isn’t good enough! We don’t need a revision of the NJASK, or a new phonics series. We need to think beyond the textbooks, and revamp/revise the technology that is currently available in district. This generation needs to be stimulated by project-based learning or we are in danger of losing them. This generation is already familiar with technology and its capacity to enhance. We need to get on board!