Spring SlideShow
Ann Frances Coronado
Beaufort Elementary
Title: Who Said It’s Spring?
April 3, 2002

Subjects included in this Lesson Plan: Language Arts and Technology

Brief Description:   After reading and discussing a book about springtime students will work cooperatively to create a poem, slide show and book entitled “Who Said It’s Spring?”

Approximate time required: 30 minutes

Standard Course of Study Goals and Objectives 
Technology
2.5 Participate in the creation of a class multimedia linear story.

Language Arts
2.04 Use preparation strategies to anticipate vocabulary of a text and to connect prior knowledge and experiences to a new text.
4.05 Write and/or participate in writing by using an author’s model of language and extending the model.
4.06 Compose a variety of products. 

Teacher's Lesson Goals/Objectives: The student will recognize signs of spring. The student will work cooperatively with classmates to write a poem and make a slide show and book about spring. 

Materials/Resources Needed: 
How Do You Know It’s Spring? by Allan Fowler
AppleWorks (slide show application)
Apple Presentation System

Pre Activities: Read How Do You Know It’s Spring? to the class.

Activities: 
1. Make a graphic organizer of things you see, hear, smell and feel in the spring.
2. Have each student refer to the graphic organizer as they contribute a sentence to the poem “Who Said It’s Spring?”
ex. John said it’s spring when he saw the flowers blooming.
Jane said it’s spring when she heard the birds chirping.
3. As each student contributes their sentence type it on the computer to make a slide show.
4. Print out each child’s page and have them illustrate it. 
5. Assemble all pages to make a class book.

Closure:
-Have students present their slide show to the rest of the class.
-Place the class book in a reading center to be read independently.

Assessment: 
-Slide show presentation
-Class book

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