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Hello! My name is Tabatha Younts and I am a third grade teacher in South Carolina seeking my Masters in Educational Technology through the University of South Carolina Aiken. The purpose of this webpage is to showcase an assignment that I completed within my Design and Development Tools II course. The goal of this assignment was to create an eLearning product using a rapid eLearning tool using the Dick and Carey Instructional Design Model.
Learners, Context, and Content
For this rapid eLearning tool assignment, I created an instructional unit for educators to use with South Carolina third graders. The “Heating Things Up!” unit can be used within a classroom or beyond the walls of a classroom at the educator’s discretion. This instructional unit was created based off of a formative assessment given to twenty-three third grade students. After administering the formative assessment, a need for further instruction and evaluation was evident. Students seemed to have an understanding that heat is needed to change states of matter, however, they showed a lack of understanding in heat processes, sources, transfers, and materials conduct or inhibit a transfer of heat.
Tool and Product Created
To create this unit, I used a tool called Articulate Rise360. Within the unit, there is an introduction about heat followed by three learning objectives that align with third grade South Carolina State Science Standards. My three learning objectives are students will be able to obtain and communicate information to compare how different processes (including burning, friction, and electricity) serve as sources of heat energy, analyze and interpret data from observations and investigations to classify different materials as either an insulator or conductor of heat, and obtain and communicate information to compare different heat transfer processes, including conduction, convection and radiation.
Each objective contains a written informative lesson in combination with pictures, videos, interactive flash cards, games, or an interactive photograph. The objective is then followed by a formative assessment review with immediate feedback on each question. At the end of the unit, there is a summative assessment, but the student has the freedom to go back to review any lesson at any time during the unit before completing the summative assessment.
Each objective contains a written informative lesson in combination with pictures, videos, interactive flash cards, games, or an interactive photograph. The objective is then followed by a formative assessment review with immediate feedback on each question. At the end of the unit, there is a summative assessment, but the student has the freedom to go back to review any lesson at any time during the unit before completing the summative assessment.
Click on the image below to view my final product.