Technology+Portfolio

= ** TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO PROJECT ** =


 * I. ELEMENTS OF THE PROJECT**
 * EATS Lesson: [|Launch Stoich Cooking.doc]


 * Student Samples (also has directions document)


 * Forms for student use have been submitted.


 * II. Summary of the Activity**


 * NETS-T:**

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
 * This project is student-centered. Students choose a food they like, select their partner with whom to work, and facilitate their class discussion. Students must connect food measurements to stoichiometric measurements. They use the wikispace to communicate class agreements of their periodic table.

Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
 * This project is completed using a class wikispace, some type of digital recording device and digital editing software. Students choose a food of their choice, cook their cooking show with their own personal flare, and complete questions specific to their recipe.

Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
 * Teacher models use of wikispace to students, communicates through email and posts with students about assignments and works to incorporate new technologies into the project.

Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership
 * With the creation of this project, I had to engage in learning new technology skills and applications, thereby modeling lifelong learning for my students. This also models leadership, as it would be easier to just continue with the same lesson plans I have always used.


 * NETS-S**

Creativity and Innovation
 * Students select a recipe of their choice, create atomic symbols for their ingredients, and must act in their cooking show. They are also creating an analogy of their food to chemicals, chemical equations, and stoichiometric calculations.

Communication and Collaboration
 * Students communicate in face-to-face and digital situations throughout the timeline of this project. They work online to develop their atomic symbols and masses; they work in pairs at a house to film their shows. They must use their wikispace to receive their calculation assignment from the teacher.

Research and Information Fluency
 * Students choose their recording device and editing software to complete the project.

Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
 * students are given a time line at the start of the project and must use time management skills to complete the project on time. They must work with their peers to select logical atomic symbols for the ingredients and find alternative symbols when the logical symbols have already been chosen.

Digital Citizenship
 * Students model digital citizenship by creating school-appropriate material to demonstrate their understanding of stoichiometry. This project also promotes lifelong learning as some are also learning to cook.

Technology Operations and Concepts
 * Students use a wide variety of technology applications in the creation of this project:the wikispace, a digital recoding device and digital editing software. Students learn how to use multiple applications together in this project.


 * III. Reflection of the Activity**

This is the second year that I have completed this project. The lesson went well in the idea that it was able to connect two units of chemistry that is often considered some of the most difficult content material with cooking (something that everyone does). Students are actively engaged throughout the whole project. Students are able to cook something they enjoy eating and have fun making the cooking shows. Having students complete a limiting reactant calculation using their cooking recipes made the limiting reactant calculations much less intimidating. This year students didn't put as much effort into editing their shows.

Next year I will continue to incorporate more cooking calculations into the unit. I will also offer more class time for editing.

In previous years before this assignment, I just did the traditional guided practice and lab situations. By developing a cooking analogy students were able to relate the science to an everyday life situation. Students are benefiting from learning to communicate online, making appropriate videos, and how to edit videos.