INTERACTIVE LESSON

Title

I Can Look in the Mirror

SUMMARY

It is key to direct my Interactive Lesson on Self-Worth to the targeted age group where children are at an age where they question their worth in their homes and society. Clinical psychologist Robin F. Goodman informs us that “Girls' self-esteem peaks when they are 9 years old, then takes a nose dive." At age 9, students are leaving third grade and beginning their school year as a 4^th grader. I am focusing on delivering my instruction to fourth graders in the Elementary School level both boys and girls. Many times we seem to focus research and statistics concerning self-esteem towards girls, yet everyone has self-worth, and should not be gender-biased. For most kids, the transition to fourth grade is like merging into a social fast lane. "Gone are the comforts of early elementary social stability: here to stay (for a while!) are gossiping, teasing, and unblinking peer scrutiny."We must help our children build a powerful armor of self-worth for themselves to defeat and withstand the vicious and cruelty of the media world.

STANDARDS

State/National

NETS

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http://standards.taskstream.com/standards/print.asp?TargetID=knh3c9e8eafgzu 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

My Blog

Students will create their own personal Blog and write daily journal entries reflecting about their daily routines and lesson topics for the day relating to activities and interactive games on

http://kidshealth.org/kid/index.jsp?tracking=K_Home

Students will:

1. Understand how to write blogs
2. Express their opinion in a blog entry
3. Assess other students' blog entries

Self-Portrait Collage

Using pictures, words, or symbols from home or the Internet, students will create a Collage representing things they enjoy doing or own, places they've been, people they admire, or careers they desire. They place their names on the back, and I post the collages around the room. I will have the other students guess which collage belongs to whom and state why they made that guess. (used for the background image of their personal blogs)

Software: Picasa3

Sounds of Stress-Free

Students will select appropriate music that demonstrates the meaning of being “Stress-Free.” Through their choices of music this will determine their personal definition of what is means to enable your body and Spirit to be healthy and without stress. (embedded to their personal blogs using mixpod.com)

http://www.mixpod.com/

Blog Entries

Students will write blog entries that are accurate, interesting, and relevant to the theme of their blog (Self-Worth).

http://www.blogger.com/home 

Building My Armor

Using the Student Blog Rubric, students will evaluate partner and self Blog.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B2LrGsLWydBXYmUwOTliYjMtYjA3Yy00MDBjLTgyODctNGY1ZDFmZTY4YThj&hl=en

“This is ME World!”

Students will showcase their Blog and share their experiences for their families, school, and community on “Family Night.”

School Website
http://sites.google.com/site/bpespueo/

HARDWARE

Mobile PC Laptops

SOFTWARE

Windows

Picasa 3

PREREQUISITE SKILLS

At the end of third grade and merging to the fourth grade, students must have a basic, fundamental, and good working knowledge of technology.

Technology Resources for Elementary Educators: Technology Goals (www.http://tr4ee.org)

1. Demonstrate safe, respectful, and responsible use of technology.

1. Produce a media-rich digital presentation about a topic of study.
2. Develop an understanding of the basic functions of the external and internal parts of the computer.
3. Use a variety of digital tools to complete tasks and solve problems.
4. Effectively navigate and use virtual environments.

• Working knowledge of the Internet with Netiquette Skills and a Digital Citizen.
  
• Use search engines and presentation software and various technology tools.
  
• Able to upload images and documents from one hardware to another
  
• Independent and Effective-User of technology in school or at home.
  
• A cooperative team member in partnership to learning from and with others.
  

All students must have a School AUP Form signed by themselves and parent or guardian.