Project Lesson Plan | Integrating Technology/Elementary | Summer 1, 2011 |
Dr. Martin
Name: RICHARD A. BARTOLOMEO – PLEASE REFER TO THE COMPREHENSIVE
POWER POINT PRESENTATION WHICH HAS ALL THE RELATED INFORMATION.
Title of Project: BORN FREE SAVE THE WILD LIONS BEFORE IT’S TO LATE
Title of Sub-Topic: THE SAVANNAH BIOME/HABITAT, THE SAVANNAH FOOD
WEB/CHAIN, THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIONS AND ZEBRAS, THE
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE HUMAN AND THE LION SPECIES, LION CONSERVATION,
CUMMULATIVE COOPERATIVE GROUP PROJECT FOR THE 6 AFRICAN COUNTRIES
WHERE THE REMAINING WILD AFRICAN LIONS STILL LIVE FREE.
1.
What global corporations are manufacturing and selling the poisons to the
African countries which are then used to kill the “Wild Lions”?
2.
If we had a yearly “Save the Wild Fund Raising Drive ” how many new park rangers could be hired to protect the remaining “Wild Lions” in your assigned country?
Grade Level: 4 TH ->5 TH
“The advantages of Integrating Technology into the design of my “Wild Lion Lessons”
is that it will enable the “Teacher/Practitioner to;
• “Immediately engage the students’ natural curiosity as they expand
their applicable technological and their general knowledge to the
greater world.”
• “Gain and to retain each students’ full attention throughout the
following “African Wild Lion Lessons”, by having the students’ use
either a “Computer” or “iPad”, along with the “Internet” and the
classroom “Smart Board” technology.”
• “Provide the students’ with an interactive educational program to
fully utilize their innate “Multiple Intelligences” while affording
them the opportunity to refine their twenty first century skills.”
Purpose of the Project: Working Together We Can Save the Wild Lions
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Overall Project Goals:
1.
Comprehend the fragility and the interdependent or symbiotic
relationships between “Wild Lions” and their Savannah peer animals.
2.
Utilize their multiple intelligences and their critical thinking skills to broaden their knowledge and their appreciation of the African Lion
species, and similarity to humans.
3.
Empower each student to become active in conservation and to join the ongoing efforts to positively influence the desired outcome which is to
save the endangered wild African Lions.
4.
Facilitate and mentor each other as they collaborate and brain storm to develop creative strategies which may be implemented by African conservation groups to save the “Wild Savannah” and all of its
inhabitants.
Sub- topic Objectives:
1.
Comprehend the fragility and the interdependent or symbiotic relationships between “Wild Lions” and their Savannah peer animals.
2.
Utilize their multiple intelligences and their critical thinking skills to broaden their knowledge and their appreciation of the African Lion species, and similarity to humans.
3.
Empower each student to become active in conservation and to join the ongoing efforts to positively influence the desired outcome which is to save the endangered wild African Lions.
4.
Facilitate and mentor each other as they collaborate and brain storm to develop creative strategies which may be implemented by African conservation groups to save the “Wild Savannah” and all of its inhabitants.
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Essential Questions:
Read, Think, then Write Down in the area below what this American Indian
Proverb “We Will Be Known Forever By The Tracks We Leave Behind”… means to you?
Read, Think, then Write Down in the area below what the “Star Fish” story meant to you?
Do you have what it takes to become the next “George Adamson”?
Think, then Write Down in the area below why you believe you could become another great
“Lion Conservationist” like George Adamson?
1. What do you know about “Lions”, their family pride, their social behavior,
the “Wild Savannah”, and their “Symbiotic/Interdependent Food
Web/Chain”?
2. Should our peer animals still be killed for trophies, trapped and kept in
homes or in a zoo or a circus for our enjoyment?
3. Is it right to hunt down and kill an animal just because that animal attacked
a human or was caught eating livestock when we are encroaching on their
territory?
4. Why is it so important to insure humans continue to protect all of our
existing wilderness and all of its wild inhabitants?
5. What do I want to learn about Lion Conservation?
6. How can I help the conservation efforts to save the remaining wild
Savannah which will enable wild Lions and their peer animals can be born
and to live free?
PLEASE REFER TO THE Born Free the Wild Lions Must Be Saved Before its Too
Late RAB 06-27-11 640pm to 840pm Final FOR THE ADDITIONAL LESSON
QUESTIONS.
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Content-Based Vocabulary:
Biome, Conservation, Codependent, Ecosystem, Extinction, Morality, Equity, Empathy,
Extinction, Interdependency, Justice, Symbiotic Relationships.
Corresponding Resource Wiki Link:
Instructional Sequencing:
Please note: These Lion lessons would be preceded by lessons on;
1. The Savannah Biome/Habitat,
2. The Savannah Food Web and Chain
The Wild African Lion lesson would be followed by a lesson on;
1. Savannah Peer Animals
2. Poaching
3.Conservation Groups.
Wild Lions
Scaffolding – Learning supports incorporated.
Differentiation – Extra resources available for students who would like to review the content or expand upon it further.
There are Youtube and Brain Pop links embedded in the presentation to assist the students’ to insure their learning journey of discovery is successful.
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21 st Century Skills students obtain by completing this Learning Journey
“The advantages of Integrating Technology into the design of my “Wild Lion Lessons”
is that it will enable the “Teacher/Practitioner to;
• “Immediately engage the students’ natural curiosity as they expand
their applicable technological and their general knowledge to the
greater world.”
• “Gain and to retain each students’ full attention throughout the
following “African Wild Lion Lessons”, by having the students’ use
either a “Computer” or “iPad”, along with the “Internet” and the
classroom “Smart Board” technology.”
• “Provide the students’ with an interactive educational program to
fully utilize their innate “Multiple Intelligences” while affording
them the opportunity to refine their twenty first century skills.”
Culminating Activity/Activities
The Class Cooperative Group Research Project
Save the Lions Lesson Student Behavioral Objectives. The Children will be able
to;
1.
Comprehend the fragility and the interdependent or symbiotic
relationships between “Wild Lions” and their Savannah peer animals.
2.
Utilize their multiple intelligences and their critical thinking skills to broaden their knowledge and their appreciation of the African Lion
species, and similarity to humans.
3.
Empower each student to become active in conservation and to join the ongoing efforts to positively influence the desired outcome which is to
save the endangered wild African Lions.
4.
Facilitate and mentor each other as they collaborate and brain storm to develop creative strategies which may be implemented by African conservation groups to save the “Wild Savannah” and all of its
inhabitants.
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The Cooperative Group Research Project Procedure;
The classroom practitioner will divide the students into the 6 groups which
represent the remaining African countries where wild Lions are still known
to live free. Each student will present a section of their group country
presentation.
2. The duration of the research project will be 4 weeks or 20 school days.
3. Each of the four group members will encompass a mixed array of skills and
abilities based their past and current performance in the related subject
areas.
4. The individual groups will work cooperatively and independently as
required to complete their comprehensive “Wild Lion” and “Wild Lion
Conservation Research Project and their groups class Power Point
Presentation.
5. Each of the 6 groups may use all available sanctioned resources including
using the approved wild life conservation groups working in their
respective countries to secure the specific human and environmental
issues.
6. Each group will incorporate their related counties pictures, data and
information into a comprehensive Power Point Presentation which will be
presented using our classrooms Smart Board.
7. After all of our group presentations have been completed we will add them
onto our schools Wiki so that we can share our results.
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Power Point or Key Note Presentation Data and Information:
1. Estimated total number of the remaining “Wild Lions”.
2. Estimated human population.
3. The current size in square miles of the remaining wild savannah.
4. The main issues related to the current “Lion and their peer wild life’s
continued decline”.
5. What global corporations are manufacturing and selling the poisons to the
African countries which are then used to kill the “Wild Lions”? We
will contact these companies to request they cease the sale of these poisons.
6. If we had a yearly “Save the Wild Fund Raising Drive ” how many new park
rangers could be hired to protect the remaining “Wild Lions” in your
assigned country?
7. What can we do now as global citizens to collaborate and brain storm with
the local conservation teams and the local population in Africa, to develop
creative strategies to maintain the “Wild Savannah and all of its residents
from becoming extinct like the “Barbary Lions”.
8. Your presentations must include complete qualitative and quantifiable
information, data analysis, charts along with supporting pertinent,
pictures, Websites, and iPad Apps used to support your groups
collaborative research Smart Board presentations.
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