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Lesson 8

Good Behavior

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Description of lesson: Students will watch the above video as a starter for a conversation about behavior, pragmatics, and social etiquitte. This will transition into discussing specific behaviors for outings, followed by identifying the most important behaviors, written on the board by the teacher as the students discuss. Then, the class will use the graphing tool to create a list of the most important things to remember to do.

Assignment:  In class, students will create a list, as a group, of the five most important good behaviors discussed in our conversation. The teacher will input these into the graphing technology as it is discussed. Students will be able to identify 'most important to least important' by correlating the size of the bars to the importance of the behavior.

Resources/materials needed: Internet, computer, projector, blackboard, chalk, animoto.com, onlinecharttool.com

Technology reflection: The video provides an interactive, visual starter for this lesson, giving postural and facial communication cues designed to prompt students thoughts about types of behavior. The graphing tool allows students to see their ideas in a professional format, which is invaluable to making the connection between what we see in graphs, and how it relates to real life.

Evaluation: Graphing is a pretty big concept, and I'm concerned that it will be confusing or not relate-able  to some students. I think the main idea here is to introduce the concept of 'same idea, different ways of looking' so that in the future, the basics of graphing are not foreign.