Mr.+Rem's+SGI

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** Mr. Rem’s SGI Life Science Requirements **


 * 1. Students will choose a living organism/life science topic to become an expert about. Your topic will need to be approved by the teacher by the assigned approval date. **


 * 2. Students will create a lesson that will include a required number of media pieces about a topic of their choice and teach their lesson presenting their required number of media pieces to 2 or 3 different randomly selected peers, who must score you using the provided rubric from the teacher. Teacher may make substitutions if students are absent on evaluation/presentation days **


 * 3. Their lesson must include: **
 * a. An essential question about the organism or topic they are focusing on **
 * b. Name of the organism or topic **
 * c. A picture with labels or caption of the organism or visual **
 * representation of main topic this must be included in one of their media pieces **
 * d. The utilization/incorporation of assigned number of **
 * media/learning resources. **
 * Note teacher will assign your color for the amount of creative media you must include- **
 * (Green- 4 or more, Yellow- 3 or more, Red- 2 or more) **
 * e. You must teach a minimum of five key vocabulary words in all **
 * students lessons (you cannot achieve the highest score by only **
 * including 5 words see attached rubric) **
 * f. You are encouraged to also include: special features or **
 * characteristics, trivia, current events or interesting facts about the **
 * organism or topic chosen **


 * 4. Students will use the lesson model below to create their lesson **
 * engagement- quick attention getter **
 * exploration- opportunity for students to explore a topic **
 * explanation- formal explanation of a concept **
 * evaluation- simple quiz or graphic organizer something you create (in addition to the teacher provided scoring rubric) **

Lesson Evaluation Tool
Topic they choose: Description of media they used for the mini lesson:
 * || Name of presenter Evaluator (your name): _

__ What they taught me: __

__ Suggestions I have: ___

Good things about their lesson:___ ||  ||


 * Peer Rubric **** DIRECTIONS: Circle your judged point value for each criteria block. **


 * ** Scale **

** Criteria ** || ** 5 ** || ** 4 ** || ** 3 ** || ** 2 ** || ** 1 ** || ** 0 ** || ** explained ** || ** 5 required vocabulary words explained ** || ** 4 required vocabulary words ** ** explained ** || ** 3 vocabulary words ** ** explained ** || ** 2 or less vocabulary words ** ** explained ** || ** None ** || ** Lacked neatness or color ** || ** Visual lacked neatness and/or color ** || ** Visual lacked neatness AND color ** || ** Visual not included or was poor ** || ** None ** || ** lesson was average in engagement and creativity. ** || ** Presentation / ** ** lesson was __below__ average in engagement and creativity. ** || ** Presentation / ** ** lesson was not very engaging and/or creative. ** || ** Not Creative ** ||
 * ** Vocabulary ** || ** More than 5 key vocabulary words **
 * ** Picture/Visual ** || ** Neat colorful and attractive, original and self created with topic listed ** || ** Visual computer generated or borrowed from another source **
 * ** Creative and Engaging to Audience ** || ** The presentation/ lesson was very engaging & creative. Presenter went above and beyond. ** || ** The presentation/ lesson was very engaging and creative. ** || ** Presentation/ **
 * ** Overall Effort and Detail ** || ** The presentation and material showed the maximum amount of effort and detail. ** || ** The presentation showed great effort and detail, but more could have been done. ** || ** The presentation showed average effort and detail. Much more could have been done. ** || ** The presentation showed below average effort and detail. Much more could have been done. ** || ** The presentation showed little effort. ** || ** The presentation showed no effort. ** ||


 * __ Student average score:( _____/20)/2 = /10 Teacher Score: /10 Average= /10__**


 * __ Media score to be completed by the teacher: __**
 * ** Point scale > ** || ** 10 ** || ** 8 ** || ** 6 ** || ** 4 ** || ** 2 ** || ** 0 ** ||
 * ** Media ** || ** Included more than their required media types as listed on their planning sheet with all requirements met. ** || ** Included the required amount with all requirements met. ** || ** Lacking 1 of the required media types as listed on their planning sheet and or 1 or more of the requirements was not met. ** || ** Lacking 2 of the required media types as listed on their planning sheet and or 2 or more of the requirements was not met. ** || ** Lacking more than 2 of the required media types as listed on their planning sheet and or more than 2 or more of the requirements was not met. ** || ** Did not complete. ** ||

SGI Project Plan Color: _ Name:_ __ Topic: ___

EQ: _

Create your plan below- What will you do for each of the parts of the lesson? -A quick attention getter for your audience. || Explain what you will do for this:
 * __ Engagement __

Will you use any media for this? What will you use? _ || -A 2-minute opportunity for students to explore your topic on their own. || What media will you use? __ Explain what you will do for this: __ || __ -A 2-4 minute explanation of your topic to your audience. __Must include your vocabulary terms__.__ || What media will you use? Explain what you will do for this: || -A 1-2 minute quiz to see what your audience learned. Must have materials for up to 4 people. || (Circle one) White Board Quiz Paper Quiz Quizlet Game Quiz
 * __ Exploration __
 * Explanation
 * __ Evaluation __

Graphic Organizer Other?

__ Include 6 questions with answers below. (Use additional paper if needed.) __ || Media Choices __ Directions:First find out your color level from your teacher, then see below to determine your requirements for this class. Based on your assigned color level you must create your own __**original** __pieces of required media. These items should not be already created by someone else! You may insert clip arts or video clips or facts as part of your media if and only if you give credit to the sources.__

__ Level Red- choose at least 2 creative media items from the table below to include in lesson. __ __ Level Yellow- choose at least 3 creative media items from the table below to include in lesson. __ __ Level Green-choose at least 4 creative media items from the table below to include in lesson. __

Required Media (Counts as one required media item) __

! > Poster / Picture about your topic including title, labels and/or a caption. (May be on 8 ½” X 11” paper or larger)

(6 frames required) |||| Concept Map (6 concepts required) |||| Tri-fold (6 concepts required) || Corner Tri-fold (6 concepts required) || (6 concepts required) |||| Learning Cube (6 concepts required) |||| Other? (describe it) (6 concepts required) ||
 * NON-DIGITAL CREATIVE MEDIA **
 * Storyboard
 * Pop Up Book

Make sure it is okay with your parents.)
 * DIGITAL CREATIVE MEDIA ** (Must create an account with an email address.

Copyright!!! You may not use copyright material in your presentations. Please choose form the open source, public domain links below for clip art and pictures.

WP Clipart

Incredible @rt clip art

Free Digital Photos

Googe Docs Presentation [] (3 slides required)

SlideRocket [] (3 slides required) []
 * Comix

(3 frames required) || []
 * Quizlet

(5 concepts required) |||| Prezi []

(3 frames required) || Name: _ Section:

** Mr. Rem’s SGI Life Science Requirements **


 * 1. Students will choose a living organism/life science topic to become an expert about. Your topic will need to be approved by the teacher by the assigned approval date. **


 * 2. Students will create a lesson that will include a required number of media pieces about a topic of their choice and teach their lesson presenting their required number of media pieces to 2 or 3 different randomly selected peers, who must score you using the provided rubric from the teacher. Teacher may make substitutions if students are absent on evaluation/presentation days **


 * 3. Their lesson must include: **
 * a. An essential question about the organism or topic they are focusing on **
 * b. Name of the organism or topic **
 * c. A picture with labels or caption of the organism or visual **
 * representation of main topic this must be included in one of their media pieces **
 * d. The utilization/incorporation of assigned number of **
 * media/learning resources. **
 * Note teacher will assign your color for the amount of creative media you must include- **
 * (Green- 4 or more, Yellow- 3 or more, Red- 2 or more) **
 * e. You must teach a minimum of five key vocabulary words in all **
 * students lessons (you cannot achieve the highest score by only **
 * including 5 words see attached rubric) **
 * f. You are encouraged to also include: special features or **
 * characteristics, trivia, current events or interesting facts about the **
 * organism or topic chosen **


 * 4. Students will use the lesson model below to create their lesson **
 * engagement- quick attention getter **
 * exploration- opportunity for students to explore a topic **
 * explanation- formal explanation of a concept **
 * evaluation- simple quiz or graphic organizer something you create (in addition to the teacher provided scoring rubric) **

Topic they choose: Description of media they used for the mini lesson:
 * || Name of presenter Evaluator (your name): _

__ What they taught me: __

__ Suggestions Ihave: ___

Good things about their lesson:___ ||  ||


 * Peer Rubric **** DIRECTIONS: Circle your judged point value for each criteria block. **


 * ** Scale **

** Criteria ** || ** 5 ** || ** 4 ** || ** 3 ** || ** 2 ** || ** 1 ** || ** 0 ** || ** explained ** || ** 5 required vocabulary words explained ** || ** 4 required vocabulary words ** ** explained ** || ** 3 vocabulary words ** ** explained ** || ** 2 or less vocabulary words ** ** explained ** || ** None ** || ** Lacked neatness or color ** || ** Visual lacked neatness and/or color ** || ** Visual lacked neatness AND color ** || ** Visual not included or was poor ** || ** None ** || ** lesson was average in engagement and creativity. ** || ** Presentation / ** ** lesson was __below__ average in engagement and creativity. ** || ** Presentation / ** ** lesson was not very engaging and/or creative. ** || ** Not Creative ** ||
 * ** Vocabulary ** || ** More than 5 key vocabulary words **
 * ** Picture/Visual ** || ** Neat colorful and attractive, original and self created with topic listed ** || ** Visual computer generated or borrowed from another source **
 * ** Creative and Engaging to Audience ** || ** The presentation/ lesson was very engaging & creative. Presenter went above and beyond. ** || ** The presentation/ lesson was very engaging and creative. ** || ** Presentation/ **
 * ** Overall Effort and Detail ** || ** The presentation and material showed the maximum amount of effort and detail. ** || ** The presentation showed great effort and detail, but more could have been done. ** || ** The presentation showed average effort and detail. Much more could have been done. ** || ** The presentation showed below average effort and detail. Much more could have been done. ** || ** The presentation showed little effort. ** || ** The presentation showed no effort. ** ||


 * __ Student average score:( _____/20)/2 = /10 Teacher Score: /10 Average= /10__**


 * __ Media score to be completed by the teacher: __**
 * ** Point scale > ** || ** 10 ** || ** 8 ** || ** 6 ** || ** 4 ** || ** 2 ** || ** 0 ** ||
 * ** Media ** || ** Included more than their required media types as listed on their planning sheet with all requirements met. ** || ** Included the required amount with all requirements met. ** || ** Lacking 1 of the required media types as listed on their planning sheet and or 1 or more of the requirements was not met. ** || ** Lacking 2 of the required media types as listed on their planning sheet and or 2 or more of the requirements was not met. ** || ** Lacking more than 2 of the required media types as listed on their planning sheet and or more than 2 or more of the requirements was not met. ** || ** Did not complete. ** ||

SGI Project Plan Color: ___ Name:___ Topic:

__ EQ: ____

Create your plan below- What will you do for each of the parts of the lesson? -A quick attention getter for your audience. || Explain what you will do for this:
 * __ Engagement __

Will you use any media for this? What will you use? _ || -A 2-minute opportunity for students to explore your topic on their own. || What media will you use? __ Explain what you will do for this: __ || __ -A 2-4 minute explanation of your topic to your audience. __Must include your vocabulary terms__.__ || What media will you use? Explain what you will do for this: || -A 1-2 minute quiz to see what your audience learned. Must have materials for up to 4 people. || (Circle one) White Board Quiz Paper Quiz Quizlet Game Quiz
 * __ Exploration __
 * Explanation
 * __ Evaluation __

Graphic Organizer Other?

__ Include 6 questions with answers below. (Use additional paper if needed.) __ || Media Choices __ Directions:First find out your color level from your teacher, then see below to determine your requirements for this class. Based on your assigned color level you must create your own __**original** __pieces of required media. These items should not be already created by someone else! You may insert clip arts or video clips or facts as part of your media if and only if you give credit to the sources.__

__ Level Red- choose at least 2 creative media items from the table below to include in lesson. __ __ Level Yellow- choose at least 3 creative media items from the table below to include in lesson. __ __ Level Green-choose at least 4 creative media items from the table below to include in lesson. __

Required Media (Counts as one required media item) __

! > Poster / Picture about your topic including title, labels and/or a caption. (May be on 8 ½” X 11” paper or larger)

(6 frames required)
 * NON-DIGITAL CREATIVE MEDIA **
 * Storyboard

[|Storyboards] |||| Concept Map (6 concepts required)

[|Concept Maps & G.O.s] |||| Tri-fold (6 concepts required) || Corner Tri-fold (6 concepts required)

[|Triorama Tri-fold Corner] || (6 concepts required)
 * Pop Up Book

[|Pop Up Books] |||| Learning Cube (6 concepts required)

[|Learning Cube] |||| Other? (describe it) (6 concepts required) ||

Make sure it is okay with your parents) || Googe Docs Presentation   []
 * DIGITAL CREATIVE MEDIA ** (must create an account with an email address)

(3 slides required) |||| SlideRocket []

(3 slides required) []
 * Comix

(3 frames required) || []
 * Quizlet

(5 concepts required) |||| Prezi []

(3 frames required) ||  ||

*Note this may supplement your instruction but will not count toward your created media. || Teacher Tube []
 * EXPLANATION DIGITAL MEDIA **

|| School Tube []

|| Britannica Online []

||

Mr. Rem’s SGI Schedule


 * ** Class # ** || ** Task ** || ** Who ** ||
 * 1 || 1. Explanation of project / Color assignment

2. Exploration of topics || # Mr. Rem

DATE: || Students ||
 * 1) Students ||
 * 2 || * Topic (submit)
 * EQ (submit)
 * Start work on visual / poster
 * Explore media choices || Students ||
 * 3 || * Media Choices (submit)
 * Continue work on visual / poster || Students ||
 * 4 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Show one completed media item to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 5 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Create quiz evaluation
 * Show one completed media item to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 6 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Show created quiz evaluation to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 7 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Be ready to show project to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 8 || Presentations Due
 * 9 || Presentations Due || Students ||

*Note this may supplement your instruction but will not count toward your created media. || Teacher Tube []
 * EXPLANATION DIGITAL MEDIA **

[] || Britannica Online [] ||
 * School Tube

Mr. Rem’s SGI Schedule


 * ** Class # ** || ** Task ** || ** Who ** ||
 * 1 || 1. Explanation of project / Color assignment

2. Exploration of topics || # Mr. Rem


 * 1) Students ||
 * 2 || * Topic (submit)
 * EQ (submit)
 * Start work on visual / poster
 * Explore media choices || Students ||
 * 3 || * Media Choices (submit)
 * Continue work on visual / poster || Students ||
 * 4 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Show one completed media item to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 5 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Create quiz evaluation
 * Show one completed media item to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 6 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Show created quiz evaluation to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 7 || * Continue work on visual / and media
 * Be ready to show project to Mr. Rem || Students ||
 * 8 || Presentations Due

DATE: || Students ||
 * 9 || Presentations Due || Students ||