Micro Lesson #1 - Planning Assessment

The objective of this lesson is for students to be able to gather information about one topic, in this case endangered species, and be able to write or speak about the topic effectively.  This will require that students synthesize information from multiple sources and produce one artifact that highlights the information they have taken in.  Their artifact must be presented in a manner that is organized in such a way that those looking at it will understand the concept without instruction.

For my lesson, students are required to find information about two different endangered species and compare and contrast the two.  This information is not written as a checklist, therefore connections between two subjects may have to be inferred.  While information for one subject may specifically state it takes a long time to reproduce, information for the other may state it takes 20 years to reach maturity.  It is up to the students to deduce that these two statements essentially boil down to the same thing.

This lesson is somewhat adaptable, however as I moved through developing it I found it difficult to come up with ways to complete the task that would utilize technology for every student.  Some students may simply be incapable of generating the artifact through 100% technological means.  For some, using crafts to create a chart rather than Microsoft Word, may be required.  To the other extreme, the layers are endless as to how many other pieces of information can be added to challenge more advanced learners.