A+Gooooogle+Project

Grade Level: 10-12 Unit: Chemistry Assignment type: A Research Project Lesson objectives: Time required to complete this lesson: 3 to 4 weeks Title of lesson: A Gooooogle Project Resources/materials needed: Individual access to the web – Google Tools are all online.
 * Student will understand Google tools well enough to use 6 of them - specifically: Docs, Calendar, Scholar, Knols, Forms/Spreadsheet, and Images/Videos.
 * Student will be able to describe a chosen chemical’s affect on the world.

Description of lesson: With this research project we will use Google tools to document, from start to finish, an entire scheme of scientific understanding of the affect of a chosen chemical.

Assignment: Using Google tools, each student will engage in a research project that will enable the entire group to work together, while not necessarily all having to be together – either in time or space. Technology used: Google tools.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: Nearly all of this project will be carried out online, using Google tools. The integrated nature of Google tools will enable cooperation to take on a more recognizable form, as each student will be directly able to see what he/she is adding to the whole, as well as what everyone else is contributing, all in near real-time.

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