lesson+plan

LESSON PLAN
**Subject**: Technology, Design, & Engineering Education **Name**: Ra’John Jones **Date**: September 27, 2011 **Time Allotted**: 60 minutes **Rationale for selecting the learning outcomes**: To prepare students for the rapidly changing Technological world by developing skills through Photoshop and Wordle, which are for adapting to new technologies as they evolve.To exercise the development of  complex graphic skills that has universal application. **Organization**: Large Group/Small Group **__Objectives__(from NC Standard Course of Study):** Help students develop an appreciation and fundamental understanding of technology through the study and application of materials, tools, processes, inventions, structures and artifacts of  the past and present. **__Student Learning Outcomes__:** **At the end of this lesson, students __will__:** Create a Wordle using words about themselves. Design Wordle via Photoshop using various tools. **__Teaching Mode__: (circle one)**

** Direct ** Indirect
**__Provision for Individual Differences__:** Handout-outs with be supplied to each student that follow along with the lesson as well as visual aid. **__Teaching Strategy(ies)__ (list)** *************************************************************************************************** **__LESSON ACTIVITIES__ (COMPLETE 1-8)** Respect each other as students and as designers. **STEP 1. Anticipatory Set: (Motivation/Assessment of Prior Knowledge)** **STEP 2. Overview of learning outcomes to pupils:** describe yourself, and edit it using different tools in Photoshop. **STEP 3. Input of information:** **STEP 4. Modeling/Examples:** **STEP 5. Checking for Understanding:** **STEP 6. Guided Practice:** **STEP 7. Independent Practice: (Assignment may be part of closure - Step 8)** in Photoshop. **STEP 8. Closure/ “Opensure”:** **__Materials needed for this lesson__:**
 * Provide visual demonstrations
 * Provide help as requested
 * What words do you use to describe yourself? (List words on the board.)
 * By the end of the day each of you will create a Wordle using words to
 * Mini Lecture explaining tools of Photoshop and Wordle using power point presentation.
 * Create a Wordle as a class and edit it in Photoshop as an example.
 * Ask students to come to the front and use (2) Photoshop tools to edit class example of Wordle.
 * Provide students with pre-made Wordle’s and allow editing using various tools in Photoshop.
 * Students will create their own original Wordle and edit it using at least (10) different
 * Students will present new design of Wordle and list what tools were used.
 * Computer
 * Photoshop
 * PowerPoint Presentation
 * Access to Wordle

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