Lesson Plan Template s15

Creating a digital learning game using Power Point

Teacher Information Name Lories Slockbower Date Feb. 14, 2010 Lesson Overview Lesson description Students use PowerPoint to create a game based on the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Main Subject: Mass Media Secondary Subjects Grade and/or class Grades 9-12 NJCCCS standards 3.1, 3.2.3.3, 3.4, 3.5 NJCCCS 8.1 standards 8.1.12.B.1- design & pilot a digital learning game, 8.1.12.A.2 NETS-S standards 1,2,3,4.5,6 Pre-requisite skills & Power Point, knowledge of mass media curriculum knowledge  Students locate information about a particular area of the curriculum and identify the most important facts about that subject.  Students incorporate those facts, in the form of questions and answers, into a PowerPoint presentation. Learning Objectives  Students create a PowerPoint presentation as a digital learning game.  Students present the game to their peers

Approximate time 2 weeks Materials and Resources (teaching and learning aids) Technology hardware Internet accessible computer, Overhead projector Technology software Power Point, word processing, TechnoGenius template

1 Creating a digital learning game using Power Point

http://www.youthlearn.org/resources/who-wants-be-techknow-genius en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media Internet web sites www.aejmc.org http://teaching-media-literacy.suite101.com/article.cfm/media_studies http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article565.html Printed material Teacher-prepared directions Audio/Visual material Video of “Who Wants to Be a Million” Alternative backup options Handouts of information about the TV show Other (including supplies Mass media text book, handouts on mass media topics for learners)

Procedures (add rows as needed) Teacher Activity Groupin g  1. Discuss the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with students. Be sure they understand the rules of the game. (Play a video of game show if necessary.) Arrange students into groups to create a list of questions and answers about a particular area of the curriculum. (The game can be adapted to any area of the curriculum and include as many or as few questions as desired.) yes  Students work in groups to create a list of questions regarding mass media for their version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” by researching mass media on Internet.

 2. Provide students in each group with the TechKnow Genius template.  Ask each group to make 14 copies of slides 2, 3, and 4 in the template.

Students enter their questions, answers, and distractors into the correct slides. yes  Make 14 copies of slides 2, 3, 4 in the template.  Enter their questions, answers and distractors into the correct slides.  Hyperlink slides

 3. When the slide show has been completed, have each group test that all the hyperlinks are working correctly.  Each group conducts a trial run of their game yes

 4. Facilitate presentations of learning

Each group presents it game to the class yes

Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction (including adaptive/assistive technology and modifications of activities) Intellectual challenges Offer variety of tasks in creating game to accommodate learning level Auditory challenges Sit close to students in group and in front of class to hear Visual challenges Use adaptive keyboard and enlarge screen preferences on computer Physical/motor challenges Provide easy access to computer or desk Emotional challenges Pair student with more advanced student Gifted learners

A Continuous Describe how learning will be assessed. s Assessment of s Learning i (attach copy of g assessment n tool(s) you will use to evaluate a learning d outcome) d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l f r o m w h i

Evaluate students on the correctness of the questions and answers in the game and on the technology used to create the game. Jennifer Wagner, ([email protected]) Crossroads Christian School, Corona, California