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My name is Linda Berry, I teach 6th & 7th Grade Technology Applications. My lesson poses an open-ended question – What do you know about Ulysses S. Grant? Students will use the internet to find the information about Ulysses S. Grant; they will also make sure the information is valid, before using it on the voice thread collaborative tool to record their answers. Content Standards: Students engage in conversations, and present information. The learning outcomes, skills, and content area objectives; or standards the lesson will address is learning information about the historical person Ulysses S. Grant. ISTE NETS-S: Communication and collaboration, Research and information fluency, Technology operations and concepts. Before the lesson students will create a voice thread with the assistance from the Teacher and record information on the trial voice thread. The class of twelve students will be divided into three groups of four students – students are grouped to accommodate the diverse learners two class periods of 50 minutes. During the first class students will, in their groups, discuss questions they would like answered about the famous person -at least six questions. In the second class period 55 minutes students will choose two search engines, and establish the validity of the website chosen based on the verifying website worksheet given them by the instructor. Students will began finding information about the famous person and copying and pasting it into a word document. During the third class period – 55 minutes, students will continue finding information about the famous person, copying and pasting it in to a word document. During the fourth class period – 55 minutes, students will began discussing what they want to put on the voice thread; and students will began rehearsing their entry amongst themselves in each group– 55 minutes. During the fifth class period – 55 minutes, students will began recording their information on the voice thread collaboration tool for the final artifact. After students have completed the cooperative learning voice thread activity I will evaluate the artifact by the correct completion of the voice thread, as well as the information presented on the voice thread about the famous person. Materials and resources for this project are: Computers, internet, and a voice thread site.