Technology for Teaching ECE Language Arts

Content: Kindergarten Standard 3, Objective 4, Orally manipulate phonemes in words and syllables (manipulation).

Pedagogy: The students will be given explicit instruction in the classroom about phonemes and have practice as in a whole class context. In this activity, the children will be required to manipulate and substitute the middle vowel in words to create new words. With this program, children can actually see how the vowels can replace one another to create new words, and understand the different ways that words sound and look with new and different middle phonemes. This activity will provide them with an opportunity to visually see how replacing the phonemes creates an entirely new word.

Technology: The program we use is a game in which children click and drag letters to place them in blanks to create as many actual words as possible. This game was taken from the Scholastic website: (http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/vowels/index.htm)

Technology for Teaching ECE Maths

Content: Kindergarten Math Standard 1 : Objective 3
Model, describe, and illustrate meanings of addition and subtraction for whole numbers less than ten.

Pedagogy: For this activity, students will be able use manipulatives (virtual) to see the practical application of addition for whole numbers less than ten. Having the children exposed to both the manipulatives and the numerals on the computer screen with reinforce what they are doing. Because this activity is in the form of a game, this will motivate students to want to get the answer right so they can win the game.

Technology: We will use a game called Ten Frame in which the students move virtual checker pieces to represent numbers being added to create the sum. We got this game from the Illuminations: Resources for Teaching Math website (http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=75).