Social Networking Learning Activity
Social Networking Learning Activity
JANEAL GROSINGER - EDTECH 541
Divide into groups of 3-4 students. Once the groups are set, the teacher will set up each group of students on multiplayer game mode of Minecraft.
Work with your group to find the items in the treasure hunt listed below.
Save a picture of the item on their computer.
Use the Google Sheet template to identify how many of each item you found.
Complete the entire Google Sheet with your group members by multiplying the number of items found.
Upload the pictures you saved into the correct space of the Padlet webpage.
Label each item with your names. (all students in the class will use the same Padlet)
Connect Minecraft to real-life situations by taking photos at home that represent items you have searched for on the Minecraft Treasure Hunt.
Take pictures of as many of the Treasure Hunt items as you can find in and around your home, neighborhood, countryside, store, or other places of interest.
Visit relatives homes, the zoo, go on a nature hike, drive to a river or lake, pet store, or visit a neighborhood store to find villagers, flowers, animals, water, trees, chickens, turtles, and caves.
Take a picture of the item on either a cell phone or a digital camera.
Download the pictures to the Google Photo site to share with classmates.
As an added bonus, share your home photos with another class in the school, without sending the Treasure Hunt list, and see if they can find the items you took pictures of in their Minecraft program!
Cat / Ocelot
Chicken
Cow
Fish
Horse
Pig
Polar Bear
Sheep
Turtle
Caves
Ice Structure
Ravine
Snow
Village
Water
Villagers
Red Flowers
Tree
Yellow Flower
Dolphin
Purple Flower
Underground Fortress
Read this webpage on how to use multi-player mode in Minecraft for Education.
Grade: 2nd Content Area: Math - Multiplication
The purpose of this lesson is to help students learn to work collaboratively in small groups of 3- students and to practice their multiplication skills.
Teacher will use a Smartboard or overhead projector to display the list of items that need to found in the Minecraft Multi-player World.
Teacher will either divide the students into groups of 3-4 students, or allow the students to create their own groups.
Each group of students will work together inside the multi-player mode of the Minecraft world to find the items needed for the Treasure Hunt. Teacher may want to review with the students the different keyboard shortcuts for how to make their avatar move and fly within the program. Some of the items they need to find may be very far apart.
When the students find an item, they should save it to the laptop desktop to use later in Padlet. When all items are found, students can close the Minecraft program. Students should label (title) each entry with the names of the students so the teachers knows who contributed.
Students will now work collaboratively within their groups in an Google Sheet template. Each group should download one copy of the template and work together.
Students will record the number of items they found for each treasure an then multiple it times the number of students in their group. Students should show their work on how they completed the multiplication in the last column.
For the second part of the activity, it is recommended to offer this as homework on a Friday afternoon, or give the students a week to find the treasures.
Students will find several of the items, but obviously not all of them. Try to let the students be creative, do not tell them exactly where to find each of them, but it is ok to offer suggestions. Students can work with partners if you choose.
Examples: Zoo (polar bear, ocelot), a drive through the country will find (pig, horse, cow, sheep); a pet store will find (fish, turtles, chicks); at home you will find (cat, flower); and at the neighborhood store you will find (villagers, flowers, water). Let the students use their creativity!
As an added bonus, have the students send their pictures, without the treasure hunt list, to another grade, and ask them to find the same items within the Minecraft world!
Students who demonstrate understanding of the characters can:
Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
Apply multiplication skills to real-world situations.
Create complex categories while negotiating meaning with others .
work on the Google Sheet simultaneously as other students in their group
work together within the Minecraft multi-player world to find the items in the Treasure Hunt.
solve multiplication problems in Google Sheets to find the total number of items found.
The Google Sheets webpage will be used to answer all multiplication questions for this lesson.
This link is a template. Students should make a copy of the template
The Google Photos webpage will be used to post the pictures of the Treasure Hunt items that each student found at their home or in the neighborhood.
Observe the columns in a Padlet and correctly identify the item they are searching for
Upload a picture onto the Padlet and correctly label the image
Work collaboratively with other students to complete the assignment
Log onto your laptop computer to the Voice Thread page.
Listen to the directions on the first slide. You do not need to comment on the first slide.
For each following slides, leave a comment on the slide in response to the question.
Be creative with your answer so it does not match the answer of other students. It is expected you answer in FULL sentence.
The teacher will select a topic for all students to use to create your own VoiceThread.
Search the internet for creative common images to use for your VoiceThread presentation and download them into a file on your laptop.
Uploaded the photos to VoiceThread and placed in the proper order.
Record your voicethread, one for each of the images. It is recommended that at least 4 images are uploaded for this activity.
Share your VoiceThread with at least 3-4 students for them to respond.
Share your Voice Thread with the teacher for grading.
Grade: 2nd Content Area: VoiceThread Practice Lesson
The purpose of this lesson is to help students learn to work on VoiceThread for future presentations.
This is a great activity to use as part of a centers-based learning activity. By doing this, you will only have 4-5 students recording at a time, instead of all 20-25 students in the class doing it at the same time.
The teacher will show the VoiceThread presentation and walk the students through how to use their laptop microphone to record a response to the original presentation.
Teacher should explain to students how to listen to the original, click the comment button, speak a response, and save their response. The teacher should play back the response so the students can hear it.
Students should then log into the voicethread program and listen to the presentation.
Students can listen to the entire presentation once through before recording their response, if needed.
The teacher should be walking around the room offering guidance as needed.
Ask the students to listen to the entire presentation again before leaving the station to make sure their responses were recorded on each slide.
As part of a whole class lesson or part of another centers-based activity, the students should begin looking for images to use in their own presentation.
The presentations can be based on a book they recently read in class, a social studies or science project, or an idea of their own choosing.
Students should create their own voicethread presentation, share with 4-5 other students and then share with the teacher for grading.
Students who demonstrate understanding of the characters can:
Work with presentation materials for practice and final summative assessments.
The standards identification will vary depending on whether you use this practice for a social studies, science, literature, or math lesson.
Create presentation materials using technology skills of uploading photos.
Refine speaking skills within a presentation.
Collaborate with other students by engaging in peer reviews.
Respond to the presentation in their own words and listen to the views of fellow classmates
Listen to the original presentation and answer the questions on a recording
Create their own VoiceThread presentation and share it with other students
Work collaboratively with other students to complete the assignment
Google Sheets
The Google Sheets webpage will be used to answer all multiplication questions for this lesson.
This link is a template. Students should make a copy of the template