Creators/Authors of the Media Project: Kaitlin LaPlante
Indentified Grade(s) Level: 4th & 5th Grade
Brief Introduction of the media project – The value of using this type of media project in education is to allow children to explore their cretive abilities through technology while still reviewing key concepts or words in a lesson that they have learned. This media project will help children to spell correctly and to also assosciate words with certain content area that they may not have thought to assosciate with before. Children will be impacted positively with the use of this lesson because they will be allowed to personalize their crosswords, and children will also work on their social skills by completing their crosswords with one another.
Specifically identify one or two goals/objectives: Students will be able to use spell check to edit, develop layout and design skills, the students will also be able to enhance their spelling skills.
Subject matter:– The subject matter that would be used in this activity would be spelling, and depending on whether or not the theme of the word puzzle is relevent to the educational material in the classroom the activity could have integration between subject matter such as if the word search was made using words that were relevant to mathematics vocabulary, or science vocaubulary.
What learning styles will most likely be attracted to this media creation? The visual learner will be most responsive to this activity because it's very visual, the children have to search for words with their eyes.
What instructional strategies have been utilized? (This list is somewhat exhaustive and here are a couple sites to use as guides.
Is this a self-paced or teacher-directed media project? This is a self-paced project.
Would an individual or group use this media project? This project would be more geared towards an individual, however a group could work on it together.
What type of learning assessment will be used? Has learning transfer been thought about in your media creation and if yes how? The learning assessment that will be used will be the completion of the word search.
Media Project
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