NETS: To Communicate and Collaborate

This week in our discussion board, we discussed a teachers' lesson plans and activities she had put together for her classroom. Sybert's lesson plans were on "Dinosaurs". I really thought it was great how she incorporated math, language, reading, science, music and history in her unit. For example, in Science she had the students research on the internet about dinosaurs to find out which ones were plant eaters and which were meat eaters. She incorporated Math, by having the children use their calculators to figure out the height, length, and weight of these dinosaurs. They also worked in groups with tape measures to figure out the length of them. I think all of us in the discussion board were impressed with Sybert's lesson plans. I was especially impressed that the students were able to use a Smartboard Notebook and create a power point presentation. I am sure her students learned a lot in this unit and also had fun doing it.