Unit EQ: How can technologies impacts be both good and bad?
LEQ: What are the pros and cons of your alternative energy?
Activating Strategies: ·Hand back alternative energy research ·Handout progress reports to show students where they stand in the class. ·Show students wikipurdia oExplain why we are using the wiki and how it will benefit them. §Sharing research with other students §Can get more information for the project §The more information you have the easier the project. oRules of the Wiki §You may add anything you feel helps to answer the questions. §Only the teacher can remove things get permission to delete stuff. §You may edit peoples work. §But you only receive credit for adding your own unique sentences. (remember copyrights from 7th grade). add a link to your source if you use facts from another web site. §To receive credit for adding anything to this page you must enter your name at the bottom of the screen where it says a note about the edit session. §COPYRIGHTS §Lets see how this works and lets share our knowledge. Do not quote text from a web site without making a link to the site. You should summarize the info. You can use quotes but write the word (LINK), highlight it and click the link button in the editor bar above, and choose External Link. Paste the url into the box and save it. ·How to add information oSelect your topic on the right side oClick edit this page
**Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary:
Wiki, Energy conversion, System, Sustainable, Global Climate change, Energy source, Infrastructure, idal and wave energy, Solar, Fuel Cell
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts: ·Help students use the wiki and answer any questions.
Summarizing Strategies: ·Remind the students that all the other classes will add more information. ·They will have a chance to revisit the wiki and use it to help with the essay.
What are the pros and cons of your alternative energy?
· Hand back alternative energy research
· Handout progress reports to show students where they stand in the class.
· Show students wikipurdia
o Explain why we are using the wiki and how it will benefit them.
§ Sharing research with other students
§ Can get more information for the project
§ The more information you have the easier the project.
o Rules of the Wiki
§ You may add anything you feel helps to answer the questions.
§ Only the teacher can remove things get permission to delete stuff.
§ You may edit peoples work.
§ But you only receive credit for adding your own unique sentences. (remember copyrights from 7th grade). add a link to your source if you use facts from another web site.
§ To receive credit for adding anything to this page you must enter your name at the bottom of the screen where it says a note about the edit session.
§ COPYRIGHTS
§ Lets see how this works and lets share our knowledge. Do not quote text from a web site without making a link to the site. You should summarize the info. You can use quotes but write the word (LINK), highlight it and click the link button in the editor bar above, and choose External Link. Paste the url into the box and save it.
· How to add information
o Select your topic on the right side
o Click edit this page
Wiki, Energy conversion, System, Sustainable, Global Climate change, Energy source, Infrastructure, idal and wave energy, Solar, Fuel Cell
· Help students use the wiki and answer any questions.
· Remind the students that all the other classes will add more information.
· They will have a chance to revisit the wiki and use it to help with the essay.