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What information and linked resource(s) can you provide here to introduce the lesson topic, engage student interest, and help them to activate/build background knowledge? How will you connect this content to students’ real world/lives?
What image, video, or infographic will you insert to the right to introduce the topic or help students build background knowledge?
What important question requiring analysis, interpretation, inference and/or synthesis will you pose below to guide this inquiry?
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In this Slam Dunk, you will use multiple information sources to help you build an answer to the inquiry question:
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2. 2. Information Sources Next 1 2 3 4 5 6
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Choose several of the information sources linked here to complete the Student Activity on Slide 3.
What digital resources did you find that match your objective and your students’ reading and developmental levels? Here is where you introduce these resources and explain how the information will cast light on the inquiry question.
Digital resources could be:
Informational websites (vetted, education appropriate; check access through filter on a student login)
Direct links to specific BCPS-licensed digital content.
Multimedia or visual resources: videos, images, slideshows, maps, diagrams, infographics, podcasts.
Open Educational Resources
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3. 3. Student Activity
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Use information sources on Slide 2 to complete this activity.
In this section you will explain in very clear terms what it is you expect the students to do with the information they are accessing from the resources you have provided on Slide 2.
You are outlining clear tasks, step by step, to help learners build an answer to the essential question. This might involve collaboration or communication between students.
You may want to create and/or link to a graphic organizer that will allow students to organize their notes or interact with the data they have collected (or direct them to use NoodleTools notecards).
See the BCPS Innovative Learning resource wiki for technology tools supporting various types of instructional activities.
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Your teacher/librarian will have you take the Digital Citizenship Quiz for this topic in Schoology. You may also have an opportunity to share your learning as described below.
Design an assessment activity that pulls together what your students have learned about the inquiry question after using the digital resources and gathering information. What performance or product will show the extent to which they have reached some important understandings?
This could be a creative product/presentation (e.g.PSA); written or oral response/reflection; participation in a group activity or discussion; virtual or face-to-face. See the BCPS Innovative Learning resource wiki for technology tools supporting various types of instructional activities.
Link to success criteria/rubric that students can use for self-assessment and for teacher/LMS assessment of student learning.
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5. 5. Enrichment Activities
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Provide links to additional information sources, games/interactives, videos, or eBooks related to the topic of this Slam Dunk. These are engaging sites you have checked for relevance and reading level which will reinforce, extend, or enrich student learning.
You could also make career connections or invite students to share their creative product(s) with a wider audience.
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6. 6. Teacher Resources 1 2 3 4 5 6 Digital Citizenship: Grade #
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Learning Standards Alignment
Content Learning Standards *Only if directly applicable to this lesson; if not, delete this heading.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9: Draw evidence from literary or informational text to support analysis, reflection, and research.
AASL Standards Framework for Learners I. INQUIRE: Build new knowledge by inquiring, thinking critically, identifying problems, and developing strategies for solving problems. Think: Learners display curiosity and initiative by: I.A.2 Recalling prior and background knowledge as context for new meaning. Create: Learners engage with new knowledge by following a process that includes: I.B.1 Using evidence to investigate questions. I.B.3 Generating products that illustrate learning. Share: Learners adapt, communicate, and exchange learning products with others in a cycle that includes: I.C.1 Interacting with content presented by others. Grow: Learners participate in an ongoing inquiry-based process by: I.D.2 Engaging in sustained inquiry.
ISTE Standards for Students 2. Digital Citizen: Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal and ethical.
Digital Citizenship: Grade #
Content Integration:
Objective: Students will synthesize information from multiple information sources in order to …
Time Frame: ___ (45 or 90 minute) class periods
Differentiation strategies for this lesson:
Have students use learning supports provided in any BCPS-licensed Digital Content included in this lesson. Refer to Digital Content Snapshots & Support resources for as needed.
Notes to the teacher:
Collaborate with your school library media specialist to plan and implement this lesson.
ALL STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE THE DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP QUIZ for this lesson in Schoology.
Consider sending home these Common Sense Education family resources relevant to this topic:
Add other notes as applicable here.
Last updated: March Report broken links to BCPS Library Media Programs & Digital Resources BCPS Slam Dunk Research Model, Copyright 2019, Baltimore County Public Schools, MD, all rights reserved. This lesson may be used for educational, non-profit school use only. All other uses, transmissions, and duplications are prohibited unless permission is granted expressly. This lesson is based on Dr. Jamie McKenzie’s Slam Dunk Digital Lesson model.