Technology Integration Matrix: Lesson Modification 5th grade Science

1. TIM IN THE CLASSROOM
JUDITH VINCENT AND ERIC FASONE

2. LESSON PLAN: 5TH GRADE SCIENCE
Instructional goals and Standards:
SC.5.L.15.1; SC.5.L.17.1 : Students will be able to explore how
natural and human-cause events can change an environment.
Pedagogical Practices: For this particular lesson we as teachers
provide connecting new material to past learning and assisting
students to see the continuity in their learning over time. During
this weeks lesson the students have been learning about the
adaptation of animals and plants. Students are required to take
two column notes
• Lesson Plan: Procedure: Engage students with the You Tube
video on Climate Changes and its affects.
• Continue lesson with the digitally interactive lesson on
environmental changes found in Science Fusion, Grade 5, Unit
9, Lesson 1: “How do Environmental Changes affect
organisms?”
• Have students answer discussion questions verbally, on white
boards, or sticky notes.
• Address misconceptions.
• Students will write 2-column notes.
• Summarize learning verbally and have students write it at the end
of their notes.
• Recap and wrap up by having students show understanding of
content via the lesson quiz.
• Assessment: Mini Assessment SC.5.L.17.1

3. CURRENT LEVEL ON THE TIM: BEFORE
MODIFICATIONS
Before any modifications the science lesson falls under the Entry level on the TIM matrix. During this lesson
the teacher is using technology to deliver the curriculum content to the students. For example, the teacher
is using a video from Science Fusion to teach how environmental changes effect different organisms. Also,
the students are not using any sort of technology themselves to interact with the lesson or to even take
down notes.

4. MODIFICATIONS
• To move up at least one level on the TIM I would need to incorporate technology usage among the
students. The technology tool that the students will be using are laptops. The reason for laptops goes
back to affordance &limitation. At our school laptops are more accessible and affordable than iPads.
During the lesson the teacher will continue to use Science Fusion as a tool to teach the students will be
given a laptop and will have the opportunity to take two-column notes on Microsoft Word, Microsoft
One Note. The teacher will monitor the students to make sure that they are on task and using the
device correctly. Once students have completed their notes they could always save it on a flash drive so
that it could be easily accessible to review or add on new information to their notes. Before the
modification the students were not actively engaged in the lesson. The entire lesson only consisted of
the technology that the teacher was presenting the curriculum. To take to the next level I decided to
integrate more technology usage by having the students engaged with the lesson by having them take
down their own notes using laptops. So the students were using technology tools to connect to new
information rather than to passively receive information.