Whole Didactic Unit

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Summary Poster

What is an Interactive Whiteboard?

Interactive whiteboards for higher education

An interactive whiteboard is an instructional tool that allows computer images to be displayed onto a board using a digital projector. The instructor can then manipulate the elements on the board by using his finger as a mouse, directly on the screen.

They are a powerful tool in the classroom adding interactivity and collaboration, allowing the integration of media content into the lecture and supporting collaborative learning. Used innovatively they create a wide range of learning opportunities. They are an extremely flexible tool which can be used with both the youngest primary school children and university graduates.

An interactive whiteboard can be a cost saver as this technology demonstrates how one computer can provide learning stimuli for a whole classroom. This is more cost effective than equipping an entire IT room, or every student with a laptop.

Examples of the features available when using an interactive whiteboard:
• Add annotations
• Highlight text
• Add notes and drawings and then save them to be printed out and shared, or added to a virtual learning environment.
• Show pictures and educational videos to the whole lecture theatre. You can label parts or highlight elements of an image.
• Demonstrate the content available on a website in a teacher-directed activity

Interactive whiteboards as a pedagogical tool

Teaching with an interactive whiteboard allows lecturers to accommodate all different learning styles:
• Tactile learners get to touch and move things around the board. They can also make notes and highlight elements.
• Visual learners benefit from a clear view of what is happening on the board.
• Audio learners can participate in a class discussion.

Some useful links

Video Primary ICT - Advanced Whiteboard Techniques  : In this link there is a video talking about the whiteboard and ICT in Primary Education.

Tecnología y Educación - Contenidos para pizarras digitales interactivas : Here we have resources for the digital whiteboard fos a wide variety of contents.

SMART - Pizarra digital interactiva : In this link there are some useful tools for teachers

BBC - Info about white boards : Here we have informations about the digital whiteboard.

Blog - TICs en primaria : In this blog we have information about the digital whiteboard and about how to create portfolios. 

Actividad flash - cuerpo humano : Here we have a blog about the Human Body.

Inner Body - Human Anatomy : In this webpage there are the different system of the body represented with images.

Visible Body : Here we have represented the several parts of the body system with images.

Human body 3D Anatomy :  Here we have represented the several parts of the body system with images.

Aplicación flash - Juego del cuerpo : This webpage is a game about the different parts of the human body systems.

Build a body game : This webpage is a game about the different parts of the dygestive systems.

Digestion interactive game for kids : Here we have a interactive game about dygestive system.

Top 10 Interactive Whiteboard Websites & Resources : In this webpage there are the top 10 interactive whiteboard websites and resources.

Why to use interactive whiteboard?  : Here we have the reason why using the digital whiteboard.

The Skeleton : In this link there is informations about the different human body systems.

Other websites to work with posters and for making your own activities or content:

• Glogster
• Jclic
• Ardora
• Scratch

It is obvious that you can look through the webpages we have recommended so you can find even more materials and resources

Evaluation

Assessment and evaluation. Both lend us notice the work and learning of children, and evaluate effort and results.

We are going to focus almost all time in assessment, through formative evaluation, by using feedback and focusing on helping children with diary work and fails. This process provide us with the necessary knowledge about how students are understanding the lesson and their motivation in a continuous way. Identifying areas of problems and improvement.

The teacher will evaluate the student not only through the diary , but also with the direct systematic observation the teacher have done during the previous classes. In addition, we are going to use the following Scale card models:

- Evaluation criteria we are going to evaluate:
*Knows the components of the body
* Analyzes the respiratory system
*Analyzes the circular system
* Analyzes the digestive system
* Defines the nose and lungs
* Locate the nose and lugs
* Defines the mouth, stomach and intestine
* Locates the mouth, stomach and intestine
* Takes care of the main healthy habits
* Knows how to work with digital whiteboards
* Does a wordsoup
* Recognizes our heartbate
* Elaborates the diary

Methodology: Lesson 4

- Objectives: To finalizate the sheet, to learn how to express feelings, to do the diary, to use the whiteboard, to learn about the webpage and to value healthy lifestyle. 

- Materials: paper, pencils, sheets, whiteboard and the webpage.

- Description:
In this session children are going to work with the following link: Human-biodigital

The teacher will open it in the "Staying healthy" section. And inside it the teacher will explain the Nutrition and Fitness Center and It's Time to Play with the white board. Children learn about food and fitness. 

It is important they understand that eating a healthy diet will help them to feel energized. Moreover kids and adults feel better about their bodies when they feel strong, and moving doing sport! 

 Next activity will last about 20 minutes and children have to performance different situations of the sheet with the goal of expressing themselves, their feelings and teaching them that it is not only important to care the body but also the mind. Taking away bad feelings, our daily health also improves.

Activity- How would you feel if...? (Extracted from: Kids health)

Also, students will finish their diary along 10 minutes. After that the teacher will provide a sheet that students have to do to internalize the contents of the day.

In the finally 15 minutes, students will be divided in three differents groups. The teacher will ask the following question: What have we learnt? Pupils will write in a paper every idea they have. In the last 10 minutes they will write on the digital whiteboard them in order.

Methodology: Lesson 3

- Objectives: To use whiteboard and to know the circulatory system.

- Materials: El blog de Segundo, the video, the webpage and the heart image.

- Description:

Firstly, we will devote the first 5 minutes to review the elemental content of body systems (digestive and respiratory systems) learned in the previous sessions during 5 minutes.

Once we have retained them in our memory with the brainstom, we are going to start learning the contents of the third session. The central topic will be the CIRCULATORY SYSTEM.

We will use the followinf video to introduce this new topic:

It is a brief explanation (3-5 minutes) of this system function. Besides being audiovisual, it exposes our heart in motion.


The teacher is going to explain the colours of veins and arteries with the white board so that the relate each color with a different concept and they won't confuse them (15 minutes). After that, the teacher will do questions about the topic and the child who answer properly will imitates the teacher (colouring the heart).

In the following 5 minutes the teacher will explain children how to count their heartbeat and then, they will do it. After that, the teacher will show students that we are full or veins and arteries with the following webpage during 15 minutes: (click on the image)

We understand what are the veins, arteries and heart and we will check the learning by doing the following interactive activities (during 10 minutes) (click on the image)

Finally, pupils will write in the diary everything they have done along the last 5 minutes.