Lesson+No.1+-+MindPoint+Quiz+Show+with+CPS

=**MindPoint Quiz Show with CPS**=
 * [[image:clickers2.jpg width="356" height="237" align="right" caption="Photo: St. Johns County School District, St. Augustine, FL.  (http://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/depts/itd/CPS)" link="http://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/depts/itd/CPS"]]Creating Innovative Uses of Technology:**
 * An Individual Project**
 * By**
 * Sharon MacDermaid**


 * Rationale**
 * Lesson One**

Students will utilize eInstruction’s CPS response system to work through a Chapter review activity for Chapter 9 of the Holt Middle School Mathematics Course 2. Chapter 9 covers measurement of two-dimensional figures. The main topics of the chapter are Perimeter, Circumference and Area.
 * 1. A brief description of #1 lesson plan**

Technology needed includes: One classroom computer with Windows® 7 compatible, Windows® XP (SP2) and Vista® (SP1) or Mac OS® X 10.4.1 or higher; One Data Projector connected to the classroom computer; One set of eInstruction’s CPS number response pads with one response pad per student; ([]) and MindPoint Quiz Show SE software (Holt Middle School Mathematics Course 2.)
 * 2. The technology and resources involved (e.g. facility, network, equipment, software, online program, and websites’ URLs)**

Teachers need basic computer knowledge and must be able to operate a connected data projector. Teachers must be familiar with the use of Quiz Show software and need to be able to locate the correct data file for use in this lesson. Additionally teachers need to know how to set up and use eInstruction’s CPS numbered response pads and how to troubleshoot them if one or more of the response pads do not respond correctly.
 * 3. What skills, knowledge, and pedagogy are required of teachers**

Students will need to have knowledge of Chapter 9 of the Holt Middle School Mathematics Course 2 text. There is no advanced skill set required for students using a CPS response pad.
 * 4. What prior skills and knowledge are required of students**

Students will be asked to register their clicker with the base computer and will then participate in a review game. Quiz Show is set up like a game show. Students are presented with multiple choice questions and will select an answer on their handheld “clicker” to participate in the activity.
 * 5. What are students asked to do exactly (product or process)**

The teacher will load the Quiz Show software and will hand out the clickers to the students. Students will use their clickers to join the games and will work through review questions. Once students decide on an answer they will click in to select that answer. The system will calculate the number of correct and incorrect responses. The software gives the teachers the option to skip questions and to show detailed explanations of answers once all of the students have answered.
 * 6. What are the procedures of the project (steps to teach the technology skills)**

One advantage of this project are that it allows the teachers to automatically integrate the use of clickers with the Quiz Show reviews that come standard with the Holt Math text. There is no need for the teacher to create the review materials. Another advantage is that the review session is more interactive and promotes greater student involvement as all results are tracked through the computer. Additionally there is a certain amount of pride and satisfaction that comes to a group of students when everyone in the class gets a question correct. Students will become more supportive of each other and will become a more cohesive learning team when this happens. This encourages students not to guess but rather to work through the questions using the correct formulas and methods.
 * 7. What are the advantages of the project**

In most case the biggest disadvantage of this activity is the limited number of resources most schools have. My school only has 2 classroom sets of clickers so there are generally only utilized by a few teachers. If teachers are not able to use the clickers often it is difficult for them to become comfortable enough with the technology to want to use it repeatedly.
 * 8. What are the disadvantages of the project**

__Active learning__ is the primary instructional strategy used with the clicker systems. Students will be __activating prior knowledge__ while working through the test review. Because everyone has to participate through the use of the clickers all more students will likely participate in __class discussions__ as the correct solutions are discussed along the way. In this lesson Quiz Show is used to present questions to the class, however, PowerPoint or other equivalent __slide shows__ could also be used to present questions to the class in order to prompt a response with the clickers.
 * 9. What types of effective instructional strategies are included?**

eInstruction clickers can be used across all subject areas. Clickers can be used with very young primary grade students, middle school students, high school students as well as with college level courses.
 * 10. What are the possibilities that the innovation can be transferred to other teachers, subject content, and different school settings**


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