April Lewis 

3 ADAPTIVE LESSON PLANS  
7H: adapts instructional strategies and assessment methods to the needs of individual students, 
allowing for students' learning styles, cultural backgrounds, and special needs.

Description: I collaboratively created three lessons for students with physical, intellectual, behavioral, and emotional disabilities. One of the lessons focused on the northern lights and mimicking their colors and patterns using tissues to spread chalk pastel across black paper. The other two lessons were designed for students with emotional disabilities and both incorporated technology. The first lesson used an app called Pablo, which captures the movement of light and creates short gifs called 'light graffiti.' The second lesson used an app called Stop Motion Studio in which the students could create stop motion animations. 

Rationale:  We chose to use chalk pastel for the students with physical and/or intellectual disabilities because this is a dry material that is not colored pencil or marker that the students would have used in most of their projects in the past. Chalk pastels and tissues would provide a new and relatively clean experience for students. We would be able to use a hand over hand method fairly easily with this technique, which many of the students will require. We chose to create lessons incorporating technology for the students in the classrooms with emotional and behavioral disorders because it was a unique material that would differ from their traditional mediums like pencil, markers, and paint. Talking about street art and animation is something nontraditional that we thought the students would enjoy talking about. These plans will be good for 100% of the student population. 

Evidence: Images of student work and three adaptive lesson plans