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Cha Cha en Chihuahua Travel the Mexican states. Cherie Gans Enterprise High School, Redding, CA.
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Cha Cha en ChihuahuaTravel the Mexican states Cherie Gans Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
My name is Cherie Gans and I am a Spanish teacher at Enterprise High School. My web site is http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~cgansMy e-mail is cgans@suhsd.netThis is a lesson for Spanish I or II students on the Mexican states. The students will research and create a PowerPoint presentation they will narrate in Spanish on the state of their choice. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Expectations • To use Excel • To create a technology-based lesson to be used in my classroom • To put a lesson on a web site • To make an inter-active web site. I was worried to death! CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Outcomes The sun started to shine again! I learned the following: • Graphing with Excel • Web page creation in Netscape Composer • Linking pages and projects • PowerPoint • Excel • Downloading and Uploading techniques CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Student Success! • High interest for students--themselves traveling • Meets standards • Practice speaking, writing, reading in Spanish • Experience a culture--up-to-date! • Become familiar with our neighbor to the south! CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Shortcomings • Students got distracted when researching their state • Some Mexican states had very little info on Internet • Teacher needed more time to help each student • Photos and PowerPoint took lots of time • Students nervous CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Student Data: (data hypothetical) Fabulous Improvement! Students went from not knowing much at all, to having a sound knowledge of the Mexican states. CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Speaking Practice Important for Speaking Success CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Correlation of Culminating Activity and Post-test CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Sexual Stereotypes? Maybe... CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Summary • This project helped fulfill a desire of mine--for my students to use the Internet for current information. • The class was an excellent review of Excel and PowerPoint and taught new computer skills. • This will be a doorway to other teachers’ lessons I want to do. • I’m hopeful that students will find my lesson a interesting way to get acquainted with Mexico! CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology
Student Work Around March, 2002, you’ll see wonderful slides from my students’ PowerPoint presentations! CTAP 295 Teaching with Technology