Games Lesson Plan
Technology: Games are awesome and they can prompt good conversations about gaps in kids’ knowledge or questions they have that they might not have had otherwise! Learning is way better when it’s fun. I really like how games can make learning more accessible for kids with learning differences or who are ELLs.
Link to Proficiency: http://www.wordgametime.com/games/parts-of-speech-invasion
Targeted Learners/Content area: 6th or 7th grade students – English Language Arts
Lesson Objectives: This week at CPCS, we are actually learning about parts of speech. Some of our kids learned the parts of speech in elementary school, but have been having a bit of trouble keeping them straight. They frequently misidentify adverbs, adjectives, and verbs. I think this game would be really helpful in cementing those parts of speech for them, while making the identification process more fun and engaging.
Lesson Context: I think I’d be likely to use this game throughout a unit, but particularly as a daily practice during the first half of a unit. It’s not particularly fun for kids to be drilled by a teacher in the parts of speech, but having a way to remind them daily of the lessons they’re learning about sentence structure would help them when they have to complete a summative (or formative) assessment.
Goal of technology use: I think what’s unusually useful about this type of technology, and specifically this game, is that it lets students know how well they’re doing during each round, and gives them a way to monitor which words they need more work on. Instead of me quizzing them repeatedly about sentence structure, they can shoot jellyfish with a ray gun held by an octopus (or squid??). The words are sometimes pretty tricky, too, so it could raise some good questions about words that appear to be one part of speech but are actually another.
Brief Description of how technology will be used with students: I would use this sentence as a daily, brief activity for students during a sentence structure unit. The kids would have to monitor their score in the game over the course of the unit, and see if they can improve over the course of a few weeks.
Link to Proficiency: http://www.wordgametime.com/games/parts-of-speech-invasion
Targeted Learners/Content area: 6th or 7th grade students – English Language Arts
Lesson Objectives: This week at CPCS, we are actually learning about parts of speech. Some of our kids learned the parts of speech in elementary school, but have been having a bit of trouble keeping them straight. They frequently misidentify adverbs, adjectives, and verbs. I think this game would be really helpful in cementing those parts of speech for them, while making the identification process more fun and engaging.
Lesson Context: I think I’d be likely to use this game throughout a unit, but particularly as a daily practice during the first half of a unit. It’s not particularly fun for kids to be drilled by a teacher in the parts of speech, but having a way to remind them daily of the lessons they’re learning about sentence structure would help them when they have to complete a summative (or formative) assessment.
Goal of technology use: I think what’s unusually useful about this type of technology, and specifically this game, is that it lets students know how well they’re doing during each round, and gives them a way to monitor which words they need more work on. Instead of me quizzing them repeatedly about sentence structure, they can shoot jellyfish with a ray gun held by an octopus (or squid??). The words are sometimes pretty tricky, too, so it could raise some good questions about words that appear to be one part of speech but are actually another.
Brief Description of how technology will be used with students: I would use this sentence as a daily, brief activity for students during a sentence structure unit. The kids would have to monitor their score in the game over the course of the unit, and see if they can improve over the course of a few weeks.