Read+Write+Think+-+lesson+objective

Fact Frenzy - Find the facts from a passage and 'move' them to your notepad
> The students were able to send me their final product. I am not sure that the lesson was explained well as I got different outputs. I did not get all the 'facts' about mosquitoes from the passage. It may have been better if they could have done some text editing, as there were some conditional stalemates that could not be easily broken apart and reduced to facts.
 * **Resource:**
 * [] (teacher led)
 * [] (student exercise)
 * **Standards:****RI.1.1.** Ask and answer questions about key details in a text**, RI.1.2.** Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
 * **Objective:** Find the key facts from a passage about the mosquito
 * **Assessment:**
 * Students will watch an example preformed by the teacher with input from the class
 * They will follow by doing their own exercise of a different animal, linked from the classroom home page
 * **Technological Knowledge Needed**
 * linking from wikispace
 * how to install plugins to the browser, and check they are working
 * how to save, open, print and share a Friendly Letter Generator file
 * knowledge that a .rwt file is a file type used specifically for the Read - Write - Think Interactives
 * **Pedagogical Content Knowledge - ideas**
 * one computer per student will enable each student to write their own letter at their own pace
 * The software allows for the extraction of the words from the passage, seeing facts in isolation from the syntax
 * Class should be able to read well enough to follow the text. Have them read it out loud before starting
 * Some 'facts' are actually negations, like "this fact is a myth". How to you preserve that when extracting the text with out prepositions?
 * **Reflection**
 * The Good: Assignment was 'ready made.' I had an animated example and a well designed tool with graphics and easy-to-use interface.
 * The Bad: I am not sure that they 'got it' or how I would go about discussing their output. This is probably more indicative of a content area limitation for me. Some of the fact groups from the text were complicated with adjectives and negations, and I don't know what would be an exemplary reduction of those sentences form the written passage. Since they could only drag words over, they could not edit them. The example was better, and more consicese then the mosquito module I used.
 * The Ugly: Unit required Shockwave flash player, and showed a blank page on some browsers, until it was installed. I had to provide support to make sure they were able to see the interactive. Screen capture is not easy to do on PC. One user sent me a phone pic of the screen, which still works.

Rubric: [|read write think lesson-rubricV2-1.xls]