ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

1. Students engage in the research process.: 4. Students engage in the speaking and listening process:

Equipment/Materials Needed

Glogster Account (set up by the teacher), Compter lab for research using the library research databases, Laptop and projector for the presentation of posters, Colored printer if the teacher chooses to print out the products   *Keep in mind that glogster is an interactive poster and these elements will be lost when printed.

Understandings & Goals

Students will identify and discuss an event or topic that took place during the Victorian Era.

Questions Answered

The students will research a topic during the Victorian Era which will include developing questions and determining essential information.
The students will learn how to use technology to present information that they have researched.
The students will present their research using an online poster (glogster).

Procedures

1.  Students will learn about the Victorian Era through different activities. These activities include research using books and library data bases, filling out a worksheet with given information regarding the Victorian Era, powerpoint presentation, and they will read “A Christmas Carol.” These activities take approximately 13 classroom days. This time includes the 2 days used to type the papers.
2.  After the students are done typing their papers, they will create a Glogster page to present their research.
3.  The teacher will need to set up the Glogster accounts for all students. When registering for Glogster make sure that you register in the education section. (http://www.glogster.com/edu) You will need an email address to register. It lets you register up to 200 accounts. Glogster will then send you, via email, all of the account user names and passwords.
You (the teacher) should take time to create your own Glogster page so that you become familiar with the page. It is pretty self explanatory and easy to figure out. It is important though to take the time to create one first.
4.  I would recommend that you create a slip of paper that you record each student’s user name and password on to give to each student. You could enlarge the email that they send you and cut them apart. The passwords are very long. They can change their passwords once they are into the program. You are still able to access their pages through your teacher site.
5.  We spent 2 days in the computer lab completing the Glogster page. The 1st day the students were told to find their pictures. The requirement for this project was 4 pictures. They saved their pictures to the ‘My Pictures’ folder found on their server drive. They needed to make sure that they were on their individual servers or else the pictures would not be there the next day. Students also need direction in how to make sure that they are documenting the sites that their pictures are coming from for citation purposes. The rest of day 1 and then day 2 were spent creating the Glogster page. Each student was given a rubric with the project requirements. When the teacher is on their own Glogster site, they can access all of the students’ pages. There is an ABC link on the top right hand side which is very helpful. It will put the students’ pages in numerical order so you are not looking all over for a certain page.
6.  The students each presented their Glogster pages. I pulled their pages up from my teacher site which saves a lot of time.