Resources for Transdisciplinary Learning : A Webquest

 

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Essential Question  -   Task   -     Process -

Graphic Organizers -     Lesson Plan Resources -     Multimedia  -   Rubrics

Essential Questions:  Do the resources in my Unit Plan enhance my students' understanding of important concepts, support higher-order thinking skills and develop students' lifelong learning skills?

Essential Question:  Does the technology enhance my student's creativity and understanding of the design process by supporting and developing the students' planning, collaboration, and communication skills?

Task:  Review the CTUP form (Collaborative Transdisciplinary Unit Planning), determine literacy, technology and instructional plan needs to ensure student understanding. 

Process:

1. Use one of the graphic organizers to brainstorm and plan the resources. 
2. Determine the best tools to find appropriate books and to create accompanying booklists.
3. Choose lesson resources that engage and promote critical thinking, problem solving and  higher-order thinking skills.
4. Choose high-quality online resources and create a format that makes the resources accessible.
5. Choose multimedia resources to enhance lessons.
6. Create appropriate rubrics/assessments as formative assessments for the product(s) and processes in the project.
7. Use the resources to assist with the research and information fluency process.

Resources:

Graphic Organizers to Guide Learning (Research Process Steps:  Question, Plan, Search, Evaluate, Synthesize)

Graphic Organizers from EduPlace - provides .pdf print outs of the most popular organizers.

Holt Graphic Organizers

Read-Write-Think Organizers - Interactive organizers that support lesson ideas.

Intel Thinking Tools - Visual Ranking Tool, Seeing Reason and Showing Evidence are online organizers that promote higher-order thinking skills.

ReadingQuest Organizers

Graphic Organizers from CAST (Universal Design for Learning)

Use software such as Kidspiration or Inspiration - or just go online to Webspiration.

Planning for Learning Experiences:

Designing Effective Projects: Unit Plans by Grade Level -Intel Teach to the Future is a complete program for project-based learning that incorporates essential questions, assessments, and comprehensive projects.

Thinkfinity -Thousands of high-quality resources, unit plans and lesson plans. Includes connections to Read-Write-Think, XPeditions, Science NetLinks, Literacy Network and others.

LearnNC - Lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text & multimedia.

WISE - Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment

Plan for Accompanying Multimedia Resources:

Discovery Streaming - Provides a variety of support materials for inquiry-based projects not limited to streaming video, interactivity includes a writing prompt builder, assignment builder and quizmaker.  Includes a variety of professional learning materials. Writing Prompt Example.

Teachers' Domain  -Find multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development (Register to download, share, and save resources - free).

Digital Library for Earth Science

Teacher Tube - A multimedia/video collection for teachers.  Allows for uploads as well as downloads.

Tools to Find Appropriate Books and Create Booklists:

OPAC (Use Follett Destiny from Greenwich Public Schools - will allow temporary booklist as guest sign-in)

Social Networking Sites for Reading:

• GoodReads
• LibraryThing
• Shelfari

Tools to Create Rubrics/Assessments:

RubiStar - Create a Rubric, edit an existing rubric, copy it to a word processor, publish it and use it online.

iRubric from rCampus - A new collaborative space for creating, building and assigning rubrics to students.