Character Maps

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Character Maps

• Humble Elementary
• 4th Grade Bilingual
• By Seidy Cisneros and Students

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Stage 1Teacher Planning

• This class is a fourth grade bilingual class.
  There are 18 students in this particular
  classroom.
• My site base teacher Mrs. Totman and I sat down
  and discussed ideas of what the students needed
  help in. The teachers at this school are trying
  to get the fourth grade bilingual students ready
  for the writing test they will be taking in
  February. They have been working on compositions
  that are describing settings, and introducing
  characters. We decided in order for the student
  to be able to elaborate more on their characters
  they need more practice. We decided to use
  kidspiration in order to build on the skill since
  this programs has a character map template.

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Stage 1 cont.

• TEKS
• (4.19) Writing/writing processes. The student
  selects and uses writing processes for
  self-initiated and assigned writing.
• (F) use available technology to support aspects
  of creating, revising, editing, and publishing
  texts (4-8)
• (4.21) Writing/inquiry/research. The student uses
  writing as a tool for learning and research.
• (E) present information in various forms using
  available technology (4-8) and
• Foundations. The student demonstrates knowledge
  and appropriate use of hardware components,
  software programs, and their connections.
• (B) save and delete files, uses menu options and
  commands, and work with more than one software
  application
• (E) access remote equipment on a network such as
  a printer or other peripherals.

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Stage 2Create Technology Product

• In the classroom I had the students tell me words
  that describe a person.
• I wrote all of their responses down on the board.
• Then, I had them pick three words that described
  themselves and write a sentence that explains the
  word they chose.
• Once everyone had the three words and sentences
  we went to the Dell Lab (a second computer lab).
• Here I told the students what they were about to
  do.
• Using Kidspiration there were to create a self
  map using the words and sentences they wrote on
  paper.
• I taught them how to open the program and the
  template.
• I showed them an example before dismissing them
  to there own computer.

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Stage 2Create Technology ProductHere is the
teacher sample
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The Dell Lab
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Mrs. Totmans Class in the Dell Lab
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Stage 3Implement Product

• The students at this point are to open the
  program and start on there map.
• After filling in the information they were asked
  to save it to there server space and print it on
  there own.
• Here is one example

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Work in Progress
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Stage 4Evaluation/Reflection

• In order to see what the students grasped from
  this lesson I wrote three questions on the board
  for them to answer on a piece of paper.
• Here are the questions
• Tell me 3 things you learned today?
• What 3 things did you like about the activity?
• What was the most difficult?
• My overview of this lesson was a very good
  experience the students were familiar with the
  program and they got to work right away. Some
  did have problems saving and printing but their
  peers came to their rescue.
• My teacher said the lesson was well organized by
  having the students have the written work before
  going to the lab. I refresh the students skills
  on how to get into the program and allowed the
  students to recite back the directions and the
  steps of the assignment.