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 * United States Capitals - A Fun and Interactive Lesson plan!!**

Students will learn the US Capitals by interacting with different forms of technology to do research and participate in group activities.
 * Objective:**

The lesson will be presented on an interactive smartboard. Each of the students will be given their own iPad. The students will also be granted internet access on a laptop that is connected to the desk. The iPads will link to the smartboard allowing it to be a portable interactive white board. Worksheets will also be passed around the class.
 * Lesson:**

The students of a 4th grade social studies class will learn the US state capitals. The teacher will ask capitals of 3 states before starting the lesson to recap on prior knowledge. The Teacher will then present a lesson on the state capitals and create a song that allows students to remember. The students will stand up and sing back the song. After presenting the lesson using the smart board the teacher will group the students into groups of 2 or 3. These groups will work together on answering questions that they will need to research using the Internet access. After regrouping the class as a whole will answer the questions. The team leader will write the answer they came up with on the iPad. After the teacher has the entire class’s screen on her main computer, she will choose someone from that group to read aloud their answer. After going through the entire worksheet, the students will be asked to pick a state and research the capital. The students will be asked to write a short paper including information on the states capital. Following the paper, students will be asked to use the interactive smart board to present their state and capital using the information they found. If this calls for using certain software such as power point, it is allowed. Images/videos are encouraged to be used.

Formative assessment: Is the worksheet and research as a group. Summative assessment: The individual paper and presentation – out of 35pts.
 * Assesment:**


 * Rubric:**
 * ** Rubric ** || ** Paper (15) ** || ** Presentation (20) ** ||
 * Topic was clearly stated || 0-5 || 0-5 ||
 * Technology was used (powerpoint) || 0-5 || 0-5 ||
 * Enough supporting Information (proper research) || 0-5 || 0-5 ||
 * Other forms of media used (images,videos) ||  || 0-5 ||
 * Other forms of media used (images,videos) ||  || 0-5 ||