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Online Collaboration Lesson (Created Using a template from Cennamo, Ross, and Ertmer 2009) **Lesson Title:** How Does Water Quality Affect Our Lives? **Grade Level:** High School Students (9-12) **Related Lessons:** Pond Study, Drinking Water Analysis **Unit:** Water Quality **Content Standards:** Science as Inquiry (National Science Education Standards) · Understanding of scientific concepts · Skills necessary to become independent inquirers about the natural world · The dispositions to use the skills, abilities, and attitudes associated with science Life Science Content Standards Grades 9-12 (National Science Education Standards) · Interdependence of organisms · Communication and Collaboration ** Before-Class Preparation: ** This lesson will follow one in which students have done research on several different types of water. They will also have done a problem based learning project where they have applied that knowledge to something real in their lives. To apply this knowledge to this activity, students will need some introduction to the social, economic, and ecological ramifications of what is happening in the Gulf at the present time. Video news clips and a Powerpoint presentation given by the teacher will lay the groundwork for the knowledge that the students will need to get started. The teacher will also have made contact with teachers along the Gulf coast by searching Louisiana and Florida public school websites and contacting science teachers with listed emails. Through collaboration with these teachers, students will create blogs to discuss the disaster. 10 Minutes || · Students will view sample news clips to bring them up to date on the situation in the Gulf || · Video equipment || 10 Minutes || · Students will listen to a brief Powerpoint presentation explaining the severity of the ecological disaster taking place in the Gulf || · Computer & Projector || 30 Minutes || · Students will create blogs and do initial postings in groups of 3 || · Online Computers || 15 Minutes || · After one week of discussion, students will be given the assignment of posting how a similar disaster would affect the Great Lakes (My students are only minutes away from Lake Michigan) || · Online Computers ||
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**MONITOR** Once students have created their initial posting, an email will be sent to the teachers of the students in Florida and Louisiana with the sites of the blogs. The students will then continue dialogue with the students from the other states when it is convenient for them. A minimum of 2 postings per student will be required for the next 2 weeks. The teacher will set up a reader with subscriptions to the student blogs in order to track the student discussions.

**EVALUATION** Students will be evaluated on their participation on the blogs that they have created. It is expected that the students will be having meaningful discussions about the disaster and how it applies to the lives of the students with whom they are having the discussion.