Lesson+Overview

This lesson plan is written for third graders to complete in the media center. Groups of third grade students will be researching different children’s book authors to practice their research skills as well as demonstrate their knowledge on citing sources and using technology to effectively organize and display their findings/conclusions in a variety of formats, including the use of technology. Students will be creating VoiceThreads on the authors they research and present the VoiceThreads to their classmates.
 * Overview of Lesson:**


 * Essential Question(s):**
 * How can technology help us to inform others?


 * Desired Outcomes:**
 * Students will be able to follow an inquiry process to share findings/conclusions in an appropriate format to support written, oral, and multimedia information products and evaluate the products and the processes in an ethical manner.