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ANTONIA LORA NATIVIDAD ORTEGA EVANGELISTA JIMENEZ 1. Why did you choose this lesson? Brief summary of original lesson plan design/goals of lesson. Students come to school with a different number of experiences and amount of language that they have heard. In primary classrooms, teachers nees to help build a student's vocabulary. There are many ways to teach vocabulary. The lesson plan we chose teach vocabulary using word maps concepts. We chose this lesson plan because it provides students with the opportunity of clarifying the meaning of an unknown word through a variety of strategies. The goal of this lesson plan was to teach students to use word maps to define an unknown word.The unknown word that this lesson plan is focused to is "carrot". Some of the strategies the teacher used to teach this word are: review materials from unit on eating healthy foods, food guide chart, etc.. When using the word map model, the information is organized in three ways: general class or category, attributes or properties, and examples of the concept. An effective approach to introduce word maps to students is through teacher modeling.

2. Which tool or tools did you choose to incorporate into this lesson to potentially improve it? We chose Wikis and Photopeach.

3. Wikis will give other people the opportunity to be part of the lesson plan. They could add, change, and/or erase any information to improve the lesson plan. Photopeach will allow us to embedded pictures and/or videos to make the lesson plan more interesting and vivid.

4. Do you feel this tool would improve or engage the learner and why? We feel that wikis will engage the learner because is a very popular among teachers and students. Students can add reflections and opinions in the discussion tab.They can suggest some ideas and this opportunity will help the students to be engaged. I think photopeach will engage the students as well because it offers videos and they will catch the students' attention because videos have images and sounds.

5. Do you feel this will improve your teaching? If so, why? Yes, we feel that using these tools will improve our teaching because we will have more opportunities to be creative and dinamic.