EDU 133: Lesson Plan with Educational Technology Integration 

Team​: Jordan Newman and Cassidy Woodley  

Lesson Topic​: Nature (trees)   Grade Level​: 9 
Lesson Objective​:  
 
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to ​create​ a visual representation of trees.  
 
EdTech Tool: ​Padlet - ​https://padlet.com/  
Lesson Materials/Resources​: 
(Special Preparation)  
● Research notes from previous day’s lesson 
● Laptops or computer lab 
● Email address (or Gmail log in to register for Padlet) 

Lesson Activity Plan 

Introduction  (PPT – Slides 2 – 3) 

18 min.  ● Let’s discuss about how important trees are in our world.  
  ● Slide presents pictures and names of different types of trees, how 
  they are important, how we can help them, which ones we have in 
  our community.  
  ● “​Yesterday, you and your partner picked a specific tree that is in our 
 
community to research about. Today you and your partner will start 
 
  researching and putting your presentation together.  
  ● “Padlet is like a digital poster board for you to add text, images, and 
  even videos.” (show ​tutorial video​) 
   
   
   
   
  ● Teacher Demonstration using Padlet (adding text, an image, and a 
Direct 
video) Teacher goes over size of text, colors, pictures, and length of 
Instruction 
15 min.  PPT.  
  ● Teacher checks for comprehension by involving students in adding 
  more features to the teacher demo board.  
  ● Explicit instructors are given for (login, sharing the board with partner 
  for live collaboration, expectations, and given the grading rubric) 
Guided   
Practice  ● Students are given time to login, view tutorial, select layout, and 
15 min.  share their board with their partners. 
  ● This is a time for questions and working together to get started. 
 
 
 
   
   
Ind. Practice   
(45min. x 2 =   
continues to  ● Students now begin to work collaboratively on creating their visual 
day 4 of unit)  board 
  ● Students are given 2 blocks of 45 minutes (across two days) to finish 
this project 
Assessment  ● Project is graded with a rubric, this rubric is given to students prior to 
of Objective​:  starting.  
● Students submit their project  
● Project is this posted to class website