Grade/Subject: High School Agriculture

Lesson Plan

Teacher: Robert Ortiz

Grade/Subject: High School Agriculture

Lesson Title: Aquaculture Presentations

Date: 7/8/08

Materials: Power Point Presentation, Text Book, Computers, LCD Projector

Objectives:

The learner will identify different types of aquatic plants and animals with 90% accuracy.

The learner will correctly explain the life cycle of an aquatic organism.

The learner will correctly diagram the growth habits of an aquatic organism.

The learner will correctly demonstrate an understanding of how to use electronic media.

Modifications:

Time / Process / Activities
3 min / Anticipatory / Start the class with a gold fish in a glass bowl. Ask the students who can name the parts of the fish. Who knows exactly what the fish eats? What is its life cycle? Have brief discussion.
Objective / The student will create a power point presentation, or a typed report, or create a simple web page based on their research on an aquatic organism.
30 min / Input / Lecture with power point presentation. Use the textbook to identify parts of a fish. Look at web sites that show life cycles and parts of different aquatic organisms. Bring in a guest speaker (DOW, or fish hatchery owner) to talk with the students.
30 min / Modeling / Open the unit on aquaculture with a power point. Then give a brief overview of the assignment and where to get help learning the computer media. Show them how to get started on their research.
5 min / Questioning / What is aquaculture? Why is aquaculture important to you and me? What organism are you going to research? Any questions over the assignment?
15 min in class / Guided Practice / Students will take notes from the lecture and power point, and then they will begin to research their topic. The students will make a power point presentation, or a typed report, or create a simple web page with their research on an aquatic organism. They must cover the life cycle, the habitat, the environmental contribution, and the anatomy. Then they will present it to the class.
1+ hr at home / Independent
Practice / The students will save their project to a disk and finish the project at the library or their personal computers. They need to be prepared to present in one week.
1 hr / Continuation / The students present their project to the class. The class assesses the presentations for a grade.
1 hr / Assessment / The students will have to give the common name of 10 different aquatic plants and animals. Examples will be laid out in the lab, and they will walk around the class and identify them.
In the presentation the student will correctly explain the life cycle of their chosen organism. The presentation will also include a diagram of the growth habits.
By creating and using electronic resources the student will demonstrate how to use electronic media.