ITEC 7481: LMS Activities for Module 4

LMS Activities OCA Alignment & Development

Module 4 Designing Online Learning Activities, Part 2
Continue to familiarize yourself with your LMS. Practice adding E. Learning Modules
at least one lesson or assignment activity, etc. to your online TO DO: Begin adding the materials for
course. all of your modules.

Describe your work during Module 4 in developing your LMS. Include details about
how you are working toward getting your online class set up for implementation
next semester.

In this module, I worked on finding materials to add to each week’s assignments.

The online life science course begins with Week 1 on non-living and living features. I
used the cobb resources mostly and found a digital lesson that provides good
content to begin the course. In this week’s activities, students will be learning about
non-living characteristics and living characteristics. A misconception of young
students is that they think that plants and trees are nonliving. After, reading further,
trees, plants, flowers, are all living and breathing organisms that need food, water,
and air to survive. In week 2, students will observe and collect leaves in a leaf hunt.
In their collection, they can use the leaf matching cards, to identify the leaves they
have found. Also, students will take one leaf to attach to their journal to write
observable characteristics of the leaf. The words used in their journal will be used as
assessment toward understanding that leaves can be different colors, green, brown,
orange, and red. Also, that leaves can be pointy, round, thin, and wide. In week 3,
students will be learning about fruit-producing plants. A read aloud book, A Fruit is
a Suit Case of Seeds, by Jean Richards gives many examples of fruit producing plants.
The audio book is embedded from You Tube, and students can listen to learn about
pitted fruits, fruits with seeds on the outside, and fruits that are hard to see. After
the story, a cluster web graphic organizer is an activity for students to write fruit
producing plants and the many types of fruits on the page. The next activity in week
3, is to dissect an apple and use senses to observe it. Students will need to meet in
small groups for this activity. They will each get a sample of types of apples, such as
red delicious, Mcintosh, green apples, and students will use dissecting tools to
observe color, taste, touch, and look at the seeds. Week 3’s activity includes students
to write a list of steps to dissect the fruit, and also to reflect on the apples taste. Is
the apple that I tasted, sour or sweet? The reflection will be included in the
discussion question in the learning management system. In week 4’s activities,
students will use digital resources and the interactive science software called Ed, to
view a digital lesson and inquiry flip chart to learn about what plants need. This
resource allows for student to listen, interact, and view pictures of plants. Then,
students will plant a seed and predict how they think the seed will change and grow.
The assignment 4 is to submit the type of seed they planted and their prediction of
how their plant will change as they give it water, sunlight, and time. The week’s
content materials that I have used are primarily from the cobb teaching and learning
website. These science materials are available to cobb county school students and
teachers. The blended online course has student collaboration time each week.

Julia S. Fuller, 2014

ITEC 7481: LMS Activities for Module 4

Julia S. Fuller, 2014