Bleything

** Springfield **** High School **
 * Lesson Plan **
 * For 21st Century Educators **


 * Date: 4/23/10

Period(s): 5 **


 * Standard/Performance Indicator: #2 Use of a Wiki as a technology based oucome. **


 * Instructional Objective: Students will understand the effects of air pollution in a variety of different ways. **


 * Teaching Strategy: Teachers will set up a wiki with continuing links to take them through a series of activities including air quality maps, laboratories with acid rain effects, a website link with cameras capturing images of smog, view photos of property damage from acid rain, read about effects on human health, the role of weather, link to ozone data in their area, and links to particulate matter maps. Teachers will prep labs ahead of time. Teacher will set up forms for question and data entry on wikis. **


 * Student Activity: Students will follow a wiki with continuing links to take them through a series of activities including air quality maps, laboratories with acid rain effects, a website link with cameras capturing images of smog, view photos of property damage from acid rain, read about effects on human health, the role of weather, link to ozone data in their area, and links to particulate matter maps. Students will enter all answers and all lab data on the wiki on precreated forms. **


 * Materials Required: Computers with internet access, science laboratory, vinegar, soil, water, spray bottles, pH paper. Websites [|URL=http://www.ciese.org/curriculum/airproj/index.html], [|URL=http://www.ciese.org/curriculum/airproj/geneffects.html] **


 * Evaluation: Teacher will evaluate all responses on wikis. **


 * Extension/Homework: This will correspond nicely with Chapter 12 in Holt Environmental Science. **