The Director’s Site
The 12th Annual Meeting of the
Human Body
www.pref.okayama.jp/.../100nin/
kenmin/page_04.htm
Student’s Prerequisite Knowledge
This website was designed to teach fifth grade student’s about the five senses. Student’s prerequisite knowledge specific to the five senses is minimal; however, some basic human biology would be useful for the students’ success. Students should also be able to navigate the World Wide Web, specifically a search engine as well as how to make a PowerPoint. A site is also provided on the student’s page on how to make a PowerPoint.
Standards
Standard One - Nature and Application of Science &p; Technology
Grades 4-5
Science as Inquiry
4. Collaboration, communication, and comparison are important parts of science. Oral and written reports can be used to share the results of a scientific investigation and facilitate discussion about it.
- The students are compiling all of their research to make a PowerPoint presentation and then communicate their findings to the class when they present their final work.
Standard Six - Life Processes
Grades 4-5
Structure/Function
Relationship
1. Living things have structures that function to help them survive in different kinds of places.
- The students will be investigating the different structures of the five senses and how these help humans survive in their environments.
Regulation and
Behavior
1. Living organisms are composed of parts that work together
to ensure the survival of the whole organism. The behavior of an organism is
influenced by internal clues such as hunger and external clues such as air
temperature.
- The students will be investigating the
internal and external clues made aware by the five senses to the human body.
1. Basic operations and
concepts
- Students demonstrate a sound
understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
- Students are proficient in the
use of technology.
- The students will manipulate a
computer in doing printing out worksheets, navigating the web and doing
research, putting together a PowerPoint and by typing in the information for
the PowerPoint.
3. Technology productivity
tools
- Students use technology tools
to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
- Students use productivity
tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare
publications, and produce other creative works.
- The students will use the
internet to creatively make a PowerPoint, use the computer to gain their
information efficiently. They will
collaborate all of their research into a final PowerPoint presentation.
5. Technology research
tools
- Students use technology to
locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
- Students use technology tools
to process data and report results.
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The students will locate and collect information from different
resources through the sites provided as well as from their own searches. The students will report their data through a
PowerPoint presentation.
Implementation
This lesson should be implemented in a fifth grade classroom over one weeks time for at least one hour per day. Further time may be needed for students to present their final work. The students need access to computers, the internet as well as the PowerPoint program. Teachers are to take on the “director” role during this lesson. During the entire project the director should monitor the students progress and to answer any questions.
Day One: As the class director you have invited all of your students to the 12th Annual Meeting of the Human Body. You are to inform your students that they will be put into medical teams to research the five senses. After all of the research is completed the students will be asked to put together a PowerPoint presentation of their findings. The medical team with the best presentation will be published in the next addition of DeMeo’s Medical Journal. Before sending your student to the website make sure you have divided the class into different “medical teams” with five members in each, one member per sense. If there are not enough students to make up a full team of five, have them only research a few of the senses, the students will later learn about the other senses while watching the final presentations. Designate or have the students decide which sense they will become an expert on, meaning they will have to research this particular sense and relay all findings back to their team for the final presentation. Let the students explore the site and become familiar with all of the sites.
Day Two: After the students have explored and are familiar with the site have them complete task one. They will individually complete the Senses Challenge. To monitor that they have completed the task have them report their percentages back to you. This task one was designed to have the students start thinking about their five senses. The students are then to begin task two. Links are provided under each of the senses for the students to click on. Under each of the titles are different links to information on their sense. The first step under their second task topic is to print out an activity sheet and watch a video on their sense to complete it. The sense of touch has a different activity with no movie, they are to look at a website and fill out a worksheet that is provided under step one.
Day Three: The students will continue their research on their sense by completing step one and beginning steps two and three. Then the students are to click on the second link to further their research. The third link is for the students to fill in any gaps in their research or try to answer any questions they have remaining on their topic. The students are then to gather all of their information and return to their original medical teams.
Day Four: Once the students are back into their medical teams they are to compile all of their research and make a PowerPoint presentation. The website provides a sheet that the students are to look at while they make their PowerPoint. The sheet contains some questions in which they are to answer while completing the assignment. As the director it is up to your descression if you want to add or remove items from the list.
Day Five: The
students are to finish up all PowerPoint’s and the presentations are to
begin. The students are aware of the
grading rubrics that will be used for their evaluation.
Why Technology is Useful
The use of technology is useful for this class project because the research on the computer enables the students to access a lot of information in a short amount, manipulate the body parts associated with the senses and have a visual representation of concepts involved. Throughout the process of this lesson the students research topics and watch video’s to help them learn. The students also are using the PowerPoint program to help them communicate their findings. PowerPoint is a useful tool when relaying information to others because it has a visual component and it allows the students to be creative with their work.
Evaluation
As the class director it is advised that you monitor the class to make sure all students are staying on task. Many of the assignments are up the individual students to complete and students can stray off from the task. The first task asks the students to individually take a quiz on their senses. This should not be used as a formal assessment since the students may have no prior knowledge on this topic, however it can be used as a pre-assessment so you know where the student stands on these issues. The students can even take the quiz again at the end of the lesson to see if they improve on their scores. The final formal assessment evaluations are to be derived from the rubrics provided below.
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