Technology Integration Lesson Plan

For my technology integration into a lesson plan I used my football topic from the Padlet assignment. For a fun spin on the football unit I found a lesson plan online for Ultimate Football. Ultimate Football is a modified version of Football which instead of using downs, it requires a certain number of passes be completed before a team can score.

This lesson was able to fit in with many of the standards set by both New Jersey and the International Society for Technology in Education. Most of the standards met were in regards to strategy, critiquing and adjustment. Football allows for the learning of specific defensive strategies and offensive plays and schemes that will hopefully help teams overcome the play style of their opponents. And having students self-critique and critique their classmates creates more successful and more competitive teams, and more skilled individuals. The ISTE standard deals with feedback and adjustments using the technology provided for them.

For the class I would require one football, eight cones, a roll of floor tape and 2 iPads. The cones would be designated as the front and back corners of each endzone, which is the area that a player with the ball needs to be inside of to score points. The floor tape will be used to outline the sidelines as well as the front and back of the endzone. The use of the iPads is part of the technological integration and will be discussed later.

To start the class I would have the students stretch in their lines to help prevent injuries during the game. I would then have them move to playing an instant activity, this being Sharks and Minnows. This is a tag game that has all but two students on the sideline and they have to make it to the other side without being tagged by the two “sharks”. If one of these students is tagged they become “seaweed” and can tag the running students as well.

From here we would move on to a review of information of rules and background from the flipped lesson I would send them for homework. I would utilize the flipped lesson as a way to save time in class and allow more time for actually doing to game or activity and have the students come in with an understanding of what they will be doing the next day or even next unit.

I would then break them into their three teams and from there determine which two teams would start off playing and which would be on the sideline first. As the teams cycle out the iPad then comes in to play. I would be using one of the iPads to record the games with the Hudl Sideline app. This would then stream to the other iPad using the same app and students on the team on the sideline would be able to go back to the clips and be able to look at their form, strategies and be able to make adjustments. The students could then also use the iPad for the Sketchpad app. This can be set up so that the students can draw offensive and defensive arrangements and strategies to help them be more successful next time they are in the game. When they are on the sideline they will also be responsible for evaluating throwing technique using a rubric provided. They can do this by watching the game as it is going on or by also using the Hudl Sideline app to point out their assessment partner.

Since it is the day before winter break, my homework for the students would be to have a good holiday break. On top of that I would advise them to take their clothes home to have them washed for sanitary reasons and to make sure they bring them back after break.

With the technology integration that I have put into the lesson plan I think it would help the students improve much more than if they did not have that technology. For the flipped lessons, as stated earlier, it would help increase time that students can work on skills and play games and activities. And the iPads and apps which allow the students to see their mistakes and fix form if necessary as well as creating their own plays and alignments. Giving this much freedom to the students should increase their interest and create a more fun learning environment which is one of the most important goals of a teacher.

Link to lesson: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1QI4spHWmIrd1hocUdpRWNYWXc/view?usp=sharing