Blog Journal 4

The Dynamic Instructional Design model is made to make the lesson planning process easier and more efficient in designing lesson plans for classrooms. This makes it so that teachers can specify lesson for their students and focus on what they really need to know, rather than the basic and vague descriptions of things. The lesson plan I found is one for 3rd-8th graders learning about life science. In this lesson students will make an edible coral polyp and learn the structures of the species along the way.

To begin, this lesson plan is very broad in the students it can serve. There doesn’t seem to be any prior knowledge needed to be on topic, because the lesson can begin with some vocabulary and a discussion about the topic. Next, the objectives for the lesson seem to be pretty simple as well, but they are very speccific to the lesson and discussion, like the students will build simple polyps and they will understand why coral is an animal and not a plant. These objectives show what the student will know and do, and not completely based on the teacher. This lesson plan also has clear learning strategies, like the group discussion they will have and the building of the polyp, which are directly correlated to the objectives for the lesson. This lesson does not require any technologies like computers and I think thats why I like this lesson, because not everything in classes should revolve around a computer. At the end of the lesson there is a review time where students can ask lingering questions abput the topic and I feel that this is one of the most important steps in the lesson because no matter how great the activity may be, the student can have a very important question never answered and that would be all they remembered. In all, this plan covers almost all of the bases for the lesson they are trying to teach, and I don’t believe there is much I would change.

Lesson Plan Link: https://www.calacademy.org/educators/lesson-plans/build-a-coral-polyp

Open content and open source are different because open content is any content other than software that is licensed and is free for the public to use, while open source is the software free to the public. There are sometimes restrictions on open resources such as the need for a specific license or prohibiting commercial use, which make these less open than others. there are also some choices made by the owners that can make using the open content harder to point that it is questioned if they are even open anymore, such using a format that is really expensive to edit, or making it so hard to edit that there must be a level of expertise to be able to use it. Source

I also commented on Sheighlin’s and Jennifer’s Post 3!