Lesson Plans summaries

I chose 4th-6th grades and Language Arts as my content area because these are my preferences. I could probably choose any subject, but I enjoy Language Arts and English most. I will be working in Special Education and would like to make learning as fun as possible. The two lesson plans I found are similar in some ways. In the first lesson, the students had to choose an Adventure story that they could work on collaboratively in pairs. They chose and created their own Adventure story about a Leprechaun. The students used Google Docs to create a presentation and slides. Each student was responsible for completing a certain number of slides pertaining to the story and then shared them and edited them together. They learned how to add pictures and create hyperlinks. In the end the students presented their story to other class users, allowing them to view only, but not edit. The second lesson plan was challenging but fun. The students worked together collaboratively on various books they chose and created Reader's workshop groups. The groups were broken into pairs where responsibilities were shared and deadlines set. They had to create online activities and documents related to their book. Once completed by using Google Docs and setting up Google sites for each group, the students would be able to share their literary activities with other students reading the same book.