SAMPLE LESSON PLAN
I have created a lesson plan, designed for 3rd graders, that incorporates technology into the teaching of poetry. Most students grow up with a dislike for poetry. As a lover of poetry and I future teacher I hope to influence my future students and show them that poetry should not be feared! Some ideas from my lesson can be attributed to http://4teachers.org/testimony/sommer/index.shtml.
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Above is a drawing I drew on artpad.com to accompany the poem "The Red Wheel Barrow" by William Carlos Williams.
This lesson was designed to introduce (or revisit) the topic of poetry to 3rd graders. The lesson prompts students to visualize poems through listening to videos and drawing online with the goal that the students will then be more ready to produce their own poetry. The use of technology comes into play while the students use the online art pad program and watch the poetry videos. For a more detailed step-by-step tour of the lesson, see the above PDF file. Without technology integrated into this lesson, the goal of helping students to visualize and see the poetry would be lost. Poerty is not stagnant and inactive. The art program and videos will hopefully show the students how multidimensional and interactive poems are. If the technology was not integrated in this lesson plan, the students would be less apt to view poetry as a static thing. As an instructor, I would be forced to do more of a lecture, something that the students would most likely not react to in the same manner as they would this lesson. Students would perhaps not be as interested in learning what I had prepared to teach them. I would have to modify the lesson so that my instruction was more interactive – I would have to take on the role that I have designated the technology (in the lesson I have just shared). Obviously, there are certain risks when it comes to the integration of technology in everyday lessons. For example, the classroom computers could break, or be non-existent. I plan on overcoming these pitfalls by keeping myself familiar with my school’s position on technology in the classroom and the school’s eagerness to help me in using it. By having the support of the school, working through technical problems will be a lot easier.