Lesson+Plan+Ten

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Grade Level: Second Grade

Unit: Social Studies

Lesson Objectives:  Time required to complete this lesson: approximately one hour.
 * Student will understand how to use a virtual tour as a learning tool.
 * Student will be able to identify at least five new capitals of the United States.
 * Students will understand how to find answers to questions using the Internet as a resource.
 * Students will be able to actively engage themselves in a virtual tour.

Title of lesson: Capitals of the United States

Description of lesson: This lesson focuses around a virtual map tour of the United States. Students will be partnered with a classmate to complete this activity. The main purpose of this lesson will be for students to use the MapWing virtual tour as an effective learning tool. Students will view the virtual tour of the capitals and then be responsible for answering the given questions in the map tour. Each question comes with a link to a website, which will help students find the answer to their question. Students will collectively learn how to use the internet websites as a research tool. After completeing this portion of the assignment, students (as partners still) will choose five new capitals and do their own research. Students will use Internet websites as well and be resposible for coming up with five facts or questions per capital. Students will then share their newly attained information with other classmates.

Assignment: The main assigment portion of this lesson is when the student's collectively do their own research on five new capitals not mentioned in the virtual map tour.

Resources/materials needed: -Internet with Mapwing access -any pens/pencils/paper that students feel the need to use

Technology used: The technology used for this assignment is the virtual tour created by [|www.Mapwing.com].

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: This virtual tour allowed students to sort through and research information on their own. This form of technology truly allows students to construct their own knowledge, at their own pace. The virtual tour is highly interactive and keeps student's attention spans for a longer period of time than a lecture in class.