Friday through Thursday (Friday is work day)

Students will be pulling all of the lessons together to create their Element PowerPoint and Podcast presentations. Students have the choice of creating their PowerPoint first then adding the podcast or recording the podcast and then creating the PowerPoint or creating both items together. If students work in groups both students must create a PowerPoint and participate in the podcasting. Students then decide which PowerPoint to use for their presentation. Students will present their presentations when they return on Monday.

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Thursday- Inspiration and Research

Today students will use Inspiration to record notes about the elements they are using for their presentations.

Students will also continue with their research. By the end of the period they will have completed a storyboard for their presentation and have started on the audio script.

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Wednesday- Inspiration and the Elements

Today students used the Inspiration graphic organizer software to create a study guide to understand the difference between metals and nonmetals. Students will be able to use this study guide to help them with their Elements presentation.

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Tuesday- Inspiration- Graphic Organizer Software

Today students will learn how to use Inspiration, which is a graphic organizer software program.

They will practice using the Anti-drug Red Ribbon theme.

Once they learn how to use the software program they will create a graphic organizer for their Element Podcast/PowerPoint presentation.

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Monday- What is a Periodic Table?

Today we listened to students' "Scary Stories" podcasts that they created on Friday.

Today's lesson is "What is a Periodic Table?" They will be creating a podcast and Power Point presentation about elements. Today's lesson gives them time to understand the concepts.

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Friday- Practice podcasts

Today students are going to create practice podcasts then work on a podcast exercise to give them the necessary skills to insert podcasts into their Project PowerPoint presentation.

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Thursday- Podcast

Students reviewed 2 different podcasts related to their upcoming Element assignment and studied the different components of a podcast.

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