Trail+Tweets

==The 2nd grade team and teacher-librarian collaborated on a project designed to help students step back into the past and experience what is was like to be a member of a emigrant family heading West in a covered-wagon on the Oregon Trail in the 1840s. Students were assigned a role/character, e.g., Ma, Pa, child, grand mother, grand father, blacksmith, etc., and then students were grouped into wagons. ==

==Through classroom lessons and activities and research using LMC resources, Oregon Trail Pathfinder and MackinVIA ebooks, students immersed themselves in the day-to-day rigors and challenges faced by emigrants on the Oregon Trail. Students used a graphic organizer to record facts and cite sources and demonstrated mastery of this topic by tweeting from the trail in character. Students drew upon their research to post daily Tweets from the Oregon Train in response to a prompt from their “wagon master” via Twiducate a Twitter-like microblogging tool for students. ==

GoWest Graphic Organizer

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=Standards =

Writing Standards
1. Practice conventions, e.g., grammar, punctuation, fluency.

2. Personal narrative, voice and sentence fluency.

3. Expository writing drawing upon a well established schema and prior knowledge (background research)

4. Conversational literacy (online communications)

Research Standards
1. Utilize appropriate searching techniques to gather information from a variety of sources.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Acquire information, with teacher assistance, from classroom lessons and activities, and other sources including books, ebooks, Safe Searching Resources, and Internet-based resources), and collect data about the topic.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Identify important information and write brief notes about the information.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Sort relevant information about the topic into categories with teacher assistance.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Report important findings to others.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">AASL 21st Learner Skills
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">NETS-S (to be completed by TL, if applicable):

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. Creativity and Innovation.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Communication and Collaboration.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Research and Information Fluency.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Digital Citizenship

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Technology Operations and Concepts.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Google Chromebook Skills:
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) Login into fsastudents.org acct (using Chrome)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) Access Twiducate Trail Tweets Classroom conversation and prompt

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">3) Practice typing skills via Twiducate posts

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">4) Signing out of a Chromebook and storing it properly