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Fourth Grade Technology Rich Lesson Plans

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Raleigh Bound!! A Virtual Tour
What Flavor Are Your Skittles?
 Shaping Up in Geometry 

 Rikki-Tikki Research
Geometric Glossary
Gaggle Gaggle
Investigating the  Technological Impacts on N.C.

Publishing a Narrative.... Our Trip to Raleigh 

Famous North Carolinian Research

 Research NC Symbols
Symbols Scrapbook

Internet Research and 
Slideshow

Hyped up Over North Carolina Symbols

Northern Neighbors
 Magnificent Minerals  Geometry House!
NC Facts and Symbols What's the Clue?
Cinderbank
Rocks and Minerals Composition Database Introduction of Teacher Web Page:  Sample 1,  2,  3 TRLP Home

Raleigh Bound!! A Virtual Tour

Gail Whitley 
Morehead Elementary School at Camp Glenn
April 22, 2002

Subjects included in this Lesson Plan: Technology, NC Social Studies & Science

Brief Description: Students will navigate a DPI web site to answer questions as they preview the Capitol, Legislative Building, and Museum of Natural Sciences before our actual field trip to Raleigh.

Approximate time required: One class period (30 minutes)

Standard Course of Study Goals and Objectives: 
Technology Goals 
1.1 Identify the ways in which technology has changed the lives of people in North Carolina. 
3.5 Evaluate information found via telecommunications for content and usefulness.
Social Studies 
1.1 Identify, locate, and describe ways of living of the major Native-American groups in North Carolina, past and present.
1.2 Describe the origins and characteristics of major groups that settled in North Carolina and assess their influence on North Carolina customs. 
1.3 Analyze similarities and differences among North Carolina's people, past and present. 
3.3 Suggest some influences that location has on life in North Carolina. 
4.2 Describe the major physical and cultural characteristics of regions within North Carolina.  
8.1 Identify major government authorities at the local, state, and national levels; know how they are selected and state their general areas of responsibility. 
12.1 Identify people, symbols, and events associated with North Carolina's heritage. 
12.2 Assess the influence of an important event from North Carolina's past on life today.
Science
1.01 Relate structural characteristics and behavior of a variety of animals to the environment in which they are typically found,
1.02 Determine animal behaviors and body structures that have specific growth and survival functions in a particular habitat.
1.03 Evaluate living and nonliving things that affect animal life:

  • Other animals.
  • Plants.
  • Climate.
  • Water.
  • Air.
  • Location.

2.03 Assess the uses of rocks and minerals.


Teacher's Lesson Goals/Objectives: The student will access information from the Internet on a DPI web site, read for understanding, and discover information about North Carolina's capitol, the legislative building, and North Carolina's governors.

Materials/Resources Needed: 

Pre Activities: 

  1. This is designed to be a culminating activity of various 4th grade studies. Though not a prerequisite, units on N.C.'s government emphasizing jobs of elected officials and the three branches of government are an excellent preparation for this activity. 
  2. Teacher demonstrates how to navigate around the DPI web site.  Students creates a rubric to evaluate the web site for content and usefulness.  

Activities:

  1. Discuss ways in which technology has changed the lives of people in North Carolina.  (How did we learn about NC before computers and the Internet?  How has learning changed with computers and the Internet?)
  2. Students will access the appropriate web-search engine and type:  http://www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us
  3. They will go to Carolina Clips page and click of Raleigh.
  4. Using the scavenger hunt question, students will locate and record the needed information.

Closure: Students will share the information orally and check for accuracy.

Assessment: Scavenger Hunt is checked for correct answers. 


___________________________________________________________________


Name_____________

Raleigh Scavenger Hunt

Take a virtual preview of our field trip to Raleigh. 

Directions:  

  • Go to the Department of Public Instruction's web site at http://www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us
  • Go to Carolina Clips 
  • Click on Raleigh. 
  • Click on the places shown on the map of Raleigh to answer the following questions.

State Capitol

  1. When was the capitol built?______________________________
  2. How high is the building from the rotunda to the crown of the dome?____________
  3. Of what material (rock) is the exterior of the building made? __________
  4. What happened to the building in 1831? _____________________
  • (Go back to the maps of Raleigh and go to the Legislative Building.)

Legislative Building

  1. On which floor is the Senate and House Chambers located? _______________
  2. On which floor is the Main Hall and Display Areas? ____________
  3. On which floor is the Post Office? ___________________________
  4. On which floor is the office of Lieutenant Governor Beverly Purdue? ____________  
  5. What are the two dates on the State Seal? _______________________
  • Go back to the maps of Raleigh and go to the Museum of Natural History.
  • Click on NC Museum of History Web page site
  • Click on Educational Services
  • Click on NC Historical Time Line

Museum of Natural History

  1. In 1566-1567, Spanish explorer Juan Pardo, seeking gold, leads an expedition through what is now western North Carolina. Pardo visits the three different tribes of Indians.  Name the three tribes he visited.  _______________, _______________ and ___________________ Indians.
  2. In 1585, the first English settlement is established at Roanoke Island, and Ralph Lane is appointed governor. The Roanoke Indian people, some of whom initially welcome the colonists, begin to see the English as ________________________. 
  3. In 1700, the Chowanoc and Weapemeoc peoples have gradually abandoned their lands. Some have become _____________ or _________________, and others have migrated south to join the Tuscarora. Only about 500 Native Americans remain in the Albemarle region.
  4. In 1838, approximately 17,000 North Carolina Cherokee are forcibly removed from the state to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). This event becomes known as the ___________________________.
  5.  An estimated 4,000 Cherokee people die during the 1,200-mile trek. A few hundred Cherokee refuse to be rounded up and transported. They hide in the ______________ and evade federal soldiers. 
  6.  The federal government eventually establishes a reservation for the Eastern Band of ___________________.
  • Go back to the Web Resources menu and choose a site that will answer questions about N.C.'s Governors.

N.C.'s Governors

  1. During which years did James B. Hunt, Jr. serve as governor? ____
  2. Who is our current governor? ______________________________
  3. During which years did Morehead serve as governor? ___________

The State Symbols

  1. Students at a Wilson County school petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly for the establishment of the ____________  as the Official State Vegetable. Their assignment led to the creation of this state symbol. North Carolina is the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the nation, harvesting over 550 million pounds of the vegetable in 2000. The sweet potato is high in vitamins A and C and low in fat and was grown in North Carolina before the European colonization of North America.
  2. North Carolina ranks 20th among dairy producing states in the nation.   __________  is the official state beverage.
  • When you have finished answering the scavenger hunt, you may browse any information contained within this web site. Do not quit and go to another web site!

Extra credit:  For further information on the Museum of Natural Sciences, go to  http://www.naturalsciences.org  to do a scavenger hunt in that museum.

  • To take a virtual tour of the museum, choose Exhibits, then choose New Museum tour and click of the floor you wish to visit."


Museum of Natural Sciences
First Floor

  1. What is the world's only dinosaur with a fossilized heart?_____
  2. What whale skeleton hangs in the Coastal Carolina hall? ____________
  3. What carnivorous plant grows in the Coastal Plain? ________________

Second Floor

  1. One of North Carolina's treasures is a tall mountain.  How tall is it?_____       What is its name? _____________________ 
  2. Which waterfall served as the model for the one we will see in the Mountains to the Sea exhibit? _____________________________
  3. What special exhibit opened on April 20, 2002? _______________

Third Floor

  1. What dinosaur is featured in the Terror of the South exhibit? _________

  2. Which region of N.C. contains the greatest fossils from Prehistoric North Carolina? ________________________________


Fourth Floor

  1. List 5 arthropods. _______________________________________

  2. What might fly by in the Living Conservatory? __________________

 
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