Student Response System (SRS) Activity

Name: Rori Brewer

Grade Level: 7
Content Area: Social Studies
Standards Addressed: Geographic Understandings - SS7G9
The student will locate selected features in Southern and Eastern Asia.
a. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map: Ganges River, Huang He
(Yellow River), Indus River, Mekong River, Yangtze (Chang Jiang) River, Bay of
Bengal, Indian Ocean, Sea of Japan, South China Sea, Yellow Sea, Gobi Desert ,
Taklimakan Desert, Himalayan Mountains, and Korean Peninsula.
b. Locate on a world and regional political-physical map the countries of China,
India, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.
Student Response Technology Used:
Quizlet
NearPod
Socrative
PollEverywhere
iRespond
TodaysMeet
Plickers.com
Technology that Students will use to respond to questions/prompts:
Computer
Hand-held student response system (such as i-Respond)
Phone
Tablet (such as iPad)
Other wireless device (such as iPod
Touch)
None: students will use Plicker cards printed out by the teacher
and the teacher will check responses by using the camera feature on an
iPhone or iPad
Describe the instructional activities that will occur prior to the SRS
Activity and how you will introduce the SRS Activity: The SRS activity will
be used as a pre-assessment in order to gage student understanding of what will
be taught before the lesson starts, and get them interested to learn the answers if
they do not know them. The teacher will introduce the topic of the geography of
Southern and Eastern Asia and start the SRS Activity.
Describe the purpose of the SRS activity (Check all that apply)
Assess Prior Knowledge
Anticipatory Set (Create Interest in a Topic)
To
Illuminate Common Misconceptions
Formative Assessment of Content
Knowledge (for purposes of differentiation and mastery for ALL students!)
Summative Assessment of Content Knowledge
Test Preparation
Survey/Poll
Discussion Starter
Homework Collection
Other
Additional explanation of purpose (optional): By assessing students prior
knowledge, the teacher can adapt the lesson and gage student knowledge and
interest in a topic before it starts. Using the plicker cards is new and will motivate
students to participate.
Type of session:
Teacher-Paced
Student-Paced
Identification of students:
Students will log-in so their individual scores will be available to you after the
session
SRS Activity will be anonymous
Briefly describe what will happen during the SRS Activity: The teacher will
have prepared the quiz questions and printed out plicker cards before the class
starts. The teacher will download the Plickers app onto an iPhone or iPad and
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enter students names, assigning them each to a specific plicker card. Then, the
teacher will enter all the questions for the assessment into the Plickers apps to
prepare for class. During class, each student will receive their Plickers card and be
able to view quiz questions on the interactive white board as well as listen to the
teacher ask the question and give each option (A-D). Students will hold up their
cards to show their response, and the teacher will use the iPhone or iPad to record
and save the responses.
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking Required (check all that apply). See
http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Types of Questions/Prompts (Check all that Apply):
Multiple-choice
Multiple Select
True/False
Yes/No
Short Open-ended
response or fill-in-blank
Longer open-ended response
Provide samples of questions/prompts to be given to students: Download
complete list below this lesson plan in a Microsoft Word file.
1. Which of the following countries is NOT in Southern and Eastern Asia?
A. Japan
B. South Korea
C. Turkey
D. Vietnam
2. The Mekong River runs through all of the countries EXCEPT
A. Vietnam
B. Laos
C. China
D. Japan

Right/Wrong Answers: Will there be right/wrong answers to these questions? :

Yes
No
Mixed (Some will have correct answers, others will not.)
Immediate Corrective Feedback:
Will you pre-select correct answers to some or all of the questions and display the
correct response to the class after the SRS activity?
Yes
No
Why or why not? Yes, immediately following the assessment, I will begin the
lesson in which I will give them the answer for each question so that they have
quick feedback and will know what they need to learn.
Use of Data: The information from this activity will not be used as part of a
grade, rather it will be used to assess each student and see what they need to
learn, as well as spark interest in the topic before it starts. I will use this
information to change my focus, but at this point I will not need to differentiate
the classroom based on this data because it is a pre-assessment. After studying
the lesson, I will create a new assessment in which I will test students on what
they have learned. At that point, I will use data to differentiate the class.
Describe what will occur after the SRS activity: I will begin the lesson about
the geography of Southern and Eastern Asia with an interactive white board
lesson, answering all of the questions asked during the SRS activity during the
lesson.
Describe your personal learning goal for this activity. (For example: What
are you trying that you have not tried before? What do you hope to learn from
this activity? How do you hope it will help students learn? You must design
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something that will help you learn something new! Honor System!) I want to see
if using SRS activities will increase student interest in the topic. I also want to give
shyer students or students who are English language learners a chance to
participate in class in a new way that may increase their confidence and
engagement with the class. I also want to see what students are bringing to the
lesson from previous instruction or their personal interest in the topic.