Foreign+Language

__ Grade: __ Fourth __ Content Area: __ Foreign Language __ Standard: __ Communities: Participate in multilingual communities and cultures at home and around the world. __ Benchmark: __ E. Attend, participate in or view target culture events and share with others. __ Purpose: __ The students will read __Romel’s Rainforest Home__ together.After reading the story the students will create podcasts to post on the class website that tells what it would be like if they lived in the rainforest. __ Technology: __ Smartboard- [] Inspiration-web organizers Mp3 recording device Audacity Class website- weebly __ Tried and True or New and Innovative: __ The pre-teaching activity would be considered a tried and true method.Smartboards have been around the classroom for awhile now and many teachers use it to read text together as a group.The podcasts would be considered a new and innovative method.It combines technology (mp3 players and audacity) in a new and innovative way. __ Preteaching Activities: __ This lesson will span the course of a week.
 * The class will read together __Romel’s Rainforest Home__ ( [|www.rainforest-alliance.org/education] ) and discuss what living in the rainforest would be like.The class will discuss what the differences between our culture and the culture of the rainforest.
 * The students will use the Inspiration program to create a web organizer of what their life would be like if they lived in the rainforest.Ex:what occupation would their parents have, how would they live, etc…
 * When their web organizers have been approved by the teacher, the students will use an mp3 player to record a narration of the Day in the Life of…. in a diary format.

__ Technology Day Activity: __
 * The students will use Audacity to edit their podcast with music and pictures.Once the podcast is ready the students will post their podcast on the classroom website.
 * Students will then listen to other students podcasts and fill out a teacher created rubric to provide feedback to students.

__ Supporting Research and Component Two: __