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Meet Cherrie Sneed
 Cherrie
Sneed is a computer technology teacher at Ashley River Creative
Arts Elementary School. She is also Technology Manager, and eChalk
Manager for the school. As the computer teacher, she teaches all
grades from K-5. To promote cultural awareness during February,
Black History Month, Cherrie had her students use the Internet
to research biographical information on their person. Using Howard
Gardner's seven areas of intelligences, the students determined
what intelligence area their person exhibited. For their final
product, the students used Microsoft Publisher to create
a brief biography of a famous African, describing his/her "intelligence."
Cherrie Sneed's Best Practice Strategy:
Promoting cultural awareness using multiple-intelligences and
Microsoft Publisher.
Lesson Plan Overview:
To motivate students to recognize multiple intelligences in famous
African Americans, Cherrie has the students research the Internet
for the person they have chosen using Google, Yahooligans, or
the websites designated on the fifth grade page of the e-Chalk
Ashley River Web Site.
Students take notes of the most important dates and events of
the person's life. Based on Howard Gardner's areas of intelligence,
students label their black history figure with one of Gardener's
seven intelligences. This information is included in the subtitle
of the biography. Students save an image of their famous Black
American to their folder.
Using Microsoft Publisher, the students type a short
biography of their famous African American that includes an imported
image. Students save their biography to their portfolio in My
Documents and also to a disk. Using a projection system, the students
present their biography to the class. The creation of a hall display
is the culminating activity of the project. The display is a matrix
showing each of the Gardner Intelligences, with the Black History
Figures rising in a bar graph above the axis that includes the
intelligence titles.
This cultural awareness project addresses the technology skills
of using the Internet for research, creating Publisher
documents, using writing skills to create a biography, importing
images, saving documents to disks and portfolios, and presenting
Publisher biographies using a LCD Projector.
Lesson plan
Directions for the Publisher Document
Sample Publisher Document
Pictures of Students
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