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= __**Planning and Preparation:**__ =

__**1A: Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy**__ This is a one week balanced literacy unit plan using the Trophies Story Cocoa Ice. This lesson plan includes reading, writing, speaking and word study. The students will be using higher level of thinking skills by answering Depth of Knowledge (D.O.K.) questions, in Level One, Two and Three. In this week, the students will read the Trophies story, and compare and contrast this time period, the characters, plot and setting with other stories. The students will use cooperative learning strategies, write narrative paragraphs and use before, during and after reading strategies and write response to the text.

__**1E: Designing Coherent Instruction:**__ This is an early education (K-2) unit plan that I created for EDRL 451 at Nevada State Colleg e about the Rainforest. This is a three week unit plan focused on the plants, animals of the rainforest. Each lesson plan was designed for 30-60 block of time. During the three weeks, the students will create the forest, animals and trees and hang them, creating a rainforest inside their classroom. The students also get a chance to eat some of the products of the rainforest, during one day of the lesson. It also teaches the students about the products that the rainforest provides, and what will happen if the rainforest is destroyed. The lesson ends with the teacher explaining the rate at which the rainforest is being destroyed, the animals and insects being killed or loosing their homes, and the all the benefits the rainforest provides are lost. Throughout the day, the students remove one animal every few minutes, until the entire rainforest is gone. This gives the students a visual to what is being lost, and shows the students how important it is to save our earth, and not destroy it.

__**1D: Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources**__ Computers are also a great resource for teachers to use when planning and preparing lessons. Websites such as A-Z Reading are great for printing out leveled texts to use in Guided Reading groups. National Geographic helps bring science lessons and non-fiction books to life. The students also use the computers for publishing their writing, while going though the writing process. Neighborhood Maps is a great program that allows students to take surveys, and translate data into pictographs and bar graphs. |||| __**Elmo:**__ The Elmo is a great tool to use when doing whole group instruction. This allows all the students to be a part of the lesson. It also allows the teacher to model parts of the lesson to the classroom. This is also a great tool when choral reading, doing a science worksheet, reading directions from a social studies workbook or using 2-D shapes during a math lesson. ||
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 * || __**Laptops:**__ The students at Rose Warren were lucky to have laptops to work on daily. This was worked into a center, to make sure they all got to work on ST Math and Starfall, two great websites that help students practice their math and reading skills. Pixie is another program the students use for math, writing and reading. Headphones for each student increases their concentration and the effectiveness of the center. ||  || __**iTouch:**__ Using these as a center have helped the students at Rose Warren with their math facts. There are many educational applications that can be loaded onto them. This helps students with all learning styles, especially tactile learners. "Math Bubbles" is a favorite application to use on these. The students have a math sentence in a bubble and four sums floating above the sentence. The students must touch the correct answer. After touching the correct answer, another math sentence appears. The game continues this way. Each level builds on the skills, practiced in the previous level.[[image:itouchphoto.jpg width="288" height="384"]] ||