VISD Secondary Daily/Weekly Lesson Plan

Content Area: Conway-PACE

Unit #4 –Keyboarding – Advanced lessons on Typing.com, 3D modeling with Sweet Home 3D, SketchUp, & Minecraft

Number of Days in Unit: 9 Weeks

Day and Date: Monday-Friday April 25 – April 29, 2016
Daily Focus
(Readiness/Supporting) / Instructional Objectives / Activities & Timeline
* TEKS
127.4.c.2.c-e
127.4.c.3b
127.4.c.4b / 5E Model
x☐Engage
x☐Explore
x☐Explain
x☐Elaborate
x☐Evaluate / By the end of class today, I will be able to …
Identify and use proper keyboarding posture, finger-positioning, and touch-typing fundamentals…also derive a grade from words per minute and accuracy.
·  Making appropriate modifications, estimates, and substitutions when faced with limited supplies to complete a project
·  Begin Design Process/Engineering-Scientific Method Research & Design - Catapult / Warm-up
Typing Instructor
Sweet Home 3D, SketchUp, & Minecraft
Academic Vocabulary
see previous vocabulary re:
Sweet Home 3D, SketchUp, & Minecraft / *Detailed Activities
Students will practice the home row keys with Typing Instructor.
Students will follow examples of teacher installing software to their computers by locating My Computer/Windows Explorer, the C drive, folders, files, and subfolders.
Students will practice the advanced lessons with Typing Instructor and test on them daily.
Students will create a “public/community” building (e.g. church, school, library, restaurant, grocery store) 2D layout in Sweet Home 3D. They will convert it to a #D model in SketchUp (optional for time). They will finally create the building Minecraft where many modifications, estimates, and substitutions will be required
Materials
Computer
Projector
Insight / Essential Questions with Bloom’s Taxonomy/Costa’s Inquiry Level
How have computers changed engineering and architecture?
Who else might need to use CAD software?
How much of the design process should we allow computers to control? / *Closure
Students will turn in or save completed work
Technology Tools
☐Teacher: Computer, Projector, Insight
☐Student: Computer / CCRS
Use technology appropriately.
Use technology to communicate and display findings in a clear and coherent manner.

* Detailed Activities: This is what you will see when you walk into my class today; should include: Instructional methods and grouping, high-yield strategy(ies), differentiation, accommodations.

* Closure: example - exit ticket, questioning strategies for assessing what students learned in class today

* TEKS: Including TEKS for content and technology applications

Additional resources for using this lesson plan template may be found at Curriculum Components and Resource Handbook and CSCOPE.

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