BASIC

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS, WORD TEMPLATE, NARRATED POWERPOINT

Name: Katie Imbriano

Grade Level: 8th Grade
Content Area: Georgia History
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Sway
Standards Addressed: SS8G1 Describe Georgia’s geography and climate.

Bloom’s Level of Critical Thinking:

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class:

This lesson will inform students how to Locate Georgia in relation to region, nation, continent, and
hemispheres. Students will answer a brief pre-assessment question about Georgia’s geographical features
via padlet anonymously. The questions will pertain to the following key terms:

1. Location

a. Where is Georgia located on a global perspective?

2. Continent

b. Which Continent is Georgia located on?

3. Hemisphere

c. Which Hemisphere is Georgia located on?

4. Nation

d. Which Nation is Georgia apart of?

Following the pre-assessment, students will preview a lesson with key terms pertaining to Georgia’s
geographical features through a Sway presentation. During the presentation, after each key term, the pre-
assessment questions will be re-visited. Time will be allotted for students to answer the questions after each
key term is discussed.

Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi):
Level 3-Teacher Centered

• Higher order thinking skills (i.e., application, analysis, synthesis & evaluation)
• Focus is on the content and the process
• Teaching may be learner-centered

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Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: Describe what viewers will
see and how this spreadsheet will be used in class as an example of what students will create or as a
template they will complete. If you are attaching an Excel file or an online spreadsheet/graphing
program such as Google Spreadsheet, you will also want to attach a .pdf so that those without the
software can access the file.
Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: Anything else you
want to say. If you are using/adapting another person’s lesson, cite the original source.