Biography

Reference Sites: [|Nat King Cole Bio info] [|Wikipedia] [|yodio.com]

Jazz Arts and Nat King Cole Content Area || 2nd Grade Music/ Language Arts ||
 * Grade Level and
 * Standards || **GLE:**

OC–2–2.3 Telling stories or __ giving information __ using details (Local)
CCSS: Writing With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts. NETS: 1. Creativity and Innovation Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. 2. Communication and Collaboration Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. || They will apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or knowledge. They will interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. Will organize facts in a given organizational structure || 3. Part of your assignment will be to use the **Internet** to further search Nat King Cole’s life. Find pictures that document major moments in his life and save them to your “z” drive. 3. After you have saved all the pictures you want to use for your biography go to yodio.com and upload all of the pictures into a slideshow. 4. When all the pictures are uploaded save your work and write a short narrative script explaining what each picture means. If you would like you can **write your script in Word.** 5. After your script is written let me know and we will hook up the microphone to your computer so that you can record your narrative for your timeline. 6. We will be sharing these presentations in class. ||
 * Context of the Lesson || Students view A&E biography Nat King Cole: Loved in Return as an introduction to Black History month. This lesson is an opportunity for the students to write and illustrate a biography about Nat King Cole. ||
 * Opportunities to Learn || All students are engaged in this lesson by using multiple means of engagement; students watch the biography and utilize the web based tool yodio.com to create a biography of Nat King Cole’s life. ||
 * Objectives || At the end of the lesson students will be able to write and illustrate a biography using the web based tool yodio.com.
 * Classroom Environment || Computers required as well as access to yodio.com ||
 * Instructional Procedures || # Have students watch A&E Biography
 * 1) **Introduce yodio.com**
 * Yodio.com is a website where you can use your computer and your phone to add audio to pictures. Your assignment is to create and audio timeline of Nat King Cole’s Website. We have done timelines in class before, but we didn’t do them on the computer or on a website. This is a creative and visually pleasing way to show Nat King Cole’s life. (Show students how to get on yodio.com and show them around website. Model how to upload pictures) *See reference sites for information[|Nat King Cole bio info][|Nat King Cole Bio info]**
 * Assessment || The assessment for this project is the final yodio presentation the students put together. The assessment is if they can successfully save pictures, upload them to the website, and create a short narrative to present in front of the class. ||