Fayette's+DSL+Lesson+Plan

I am looking forward to sharing my DSL lesson plan for week 7.

Unit Plan Assignment: Digital Story Telling Grade Level: 11th and 12th Subject: Accounting Unit or Topic of Study: The Account Cycle for a Proprietorship Materials and Resources:  Content Standard/Objectives: (Cathedral High School, 2008) Students will demonstrate accounting procedures used in an accounting system. Students will explore ethical business decisions. Students will navigate the Internet applying appropriate research techniques. Students will manipulate tools to create and format documents using appropriate software such as Word. ISTE: NETS-S (2008) Brief Description of Assignment Making ethical decisions is something possible for all to learn. In this lesson students will explore a guide to evaluating ethical business decisions.  Before-Class Preparation <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Distribute a graphic organizer for students to use organize the results of their research. Students will be given the option of using the distributed organizer or create one of their own. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Create four groups by having individuals select cards that are colored coded. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Review with students how to use Wiki as a collaborative tool. Encourage students to use Wiki or email to collaborate if they need to work outside of class time. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Instructional Activities <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Students will take 10 minutes to discuss their prior knowledge about corporations that they are familiar with that have been in the news about corporations that were involved in financial scandals. This discussion will include defining ethics and business ethics as a review from what was discussed previously. Students will also be given suggested names of corporations that they may want to research. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Students will use 20-30 minutes to respond to a handout where they can create good questions to research about accounting scandals that have taken place in the past ten years. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Students will work in groups to locate articles that give results to their inquiry about accounting scandals. They will use two class periods to complete this. The groups may decide how they want to record the research results using a word processing to create notes; Inspiration software to create graphic organizers, or index cards. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Students will create a digital storytelling activity to present the results of their research before their peers. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Assessments and Monitor <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Students will turn in their graphic organizers. I will conference with each group about the results from their completed organizers before they begin their digital storytelling activity. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Students will present their results of the research using a website such as toondoo.com. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Students will complete a word document writing a one or two-paragraph summary that describes what happened and the individuals involved.
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">LCD projector
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Accounting Textbook
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Computers
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Creativity and innovation
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Communication and collaboration
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Digital citizenship
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Technology operations and concepts