An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Group 4

Rosa Laclaustra Patricia Chujman María Eugenia Díaz Silvina Tantone

Moderator: Jennifer Verschoor Online course on m-Learning offered by ESSARP. September 2013.

Mobile learning Lesson plan

An apple a day keeps the doctor away Introduction Students collect data on their food habits at dinner time, providing that this is the “family� meeting moment because they have lunch at school from Monday to Friday.

Aims Encourage our 13-year-old students to follow a healthy and balanced diet at home during schooldays.

Subjects Science - Language - Literature Duration 2 weeks Activities 1. The teacher presents the activity: a. Explains the importance of doing the required tasks day by day. b. Reminds students to make regular backup copies of the pictures taken at home. c. Shows how to edit pictures through befunky.com, which

is free for adding effects and does not need registration. d. Tells students that they will receive an email containing a survey, at the end of the week.

2. During Monday to Friday week, students take pictures in order to show what they have for dinner and who they have dinner with.

3. Students select 2 pictures per day, add a descriptive text and

effects through befunky.com, and share them online.

4. Every day in class, students show their pictures and briefly explain them.

5. At the end of the week, students complete an online survey

created by the teacher using https://surveymonkey.com/, which asks them to put a tick on the different meal categories

they had for dinner day by day.

6. The teacher analyses answers and shows the resulting charts offered by the software, so that the class may discuss if the students are following a balanced and healthy diet.

Resources Any device to take pictures and to record sound.

Internet connection.

Online storage for sharing photos.

Evaluation Process Students assess their participation in this collaborative project through evaluation sheets created with http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ Example: Multimedia Project : AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY •

Teacher Name: GROUP 4

Student Name: ________________________________________

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Presentation Wellrehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention.

Rehearsed with fairly smooth delivery that holds audience attention most of the time.

Delivery not Delivery not smooth, but smooth and able to audience maintain attention interest of often lost. the audience most of the time.

Sources

Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. Most documented in desired format.

Source information collected for graphics, facts and quotes, but not documented in desired format.

Source information collected for all graphics, facts and quotes. All documented in desired format.

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Very little or no source information was collected.

Attractivenes Makes s excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation.

Makes good Makes use Use of font, use of font, of font, color, color, color, graphics, graphics, graphics, effects, etc. effects etc. effects, etc. but but these to enhance to occasionally often presentation. these detract distract from from the the presentation presentaion content. content.

Content

Includes Includes essential essential knowledge information about the about the topic. Subject topic but

Covers topic in-depth with details and examples.

Subject

Content is minimal OR there are several factual

knowledge is knowledge excellent. appears to be good.

there are 1-2 errors. factual errors.

Extension work • Interview other students at school using any voice recorders in their mobiles, to find out about their own food habits at dinner time. •

Use pictures to make a short videoclip that represents a personal conclusion on the topic, through http://animoto.com/.

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Using http://www.glogster.com/ students make posters encouraging good eating habits and suggesting healthy

snacks. Students visit other classrooms and share their work with the rest of the school.