2.+Planning+and+Preparation

__Student Planning: __

**A. Knowledge Gaining:** The students will research specific information outlined in the Religion Hot Spot wiki for the religion the groups chose to explore. In class, the students will be engaged in a brief discussion on belief systems and how these systems guide us through our daily lives and shape who we become as a person. The students will then be put into groups and they decide what religion to research. There are specific interactive websites that the teacher has assigned for the particular religion for the students to obtain the information the students need.

**B. Knowledge Organizing:** The students will be given an opportunities to organize their information that they have found in several ways. First, the students are to take notes while searching the interactive websites and when all information is found, the students are to display the information in an online graphic organizer website with a few pictures that coincide with that religion and show the graphic organizer to the teacher, in order to move onto the next step of the project.

**C. Knowledge Sharing:** The students will be sharing all of their information they found about their religion through their wiki created for the religions only. This way all students will have access to the facts and pictures associated with each religion. Lastly, the students will be presenting their religions to the class and teacher answering certain questions about the religion in the presentation.

__Teacher Preparation: __


 * The teacher will need to introduce any unfamiliar technology to students. This was each and every student has full understanding of each technology to complete this project.
 * The teacher will need to find student-friendly and interactive websites for each religion for the students to visit with the proper information needed.
 * The teacher will need to demonstrate the graphic organizers used on the website: [|Graphic Organizer Website]
 * The teacher will need to create the class wiki where the students will share their information for each religion. Religion Hot Spot
 * The teacher will need to create an outline for each religion to follow as to what must be in the presentation.
 * The teacher will need to write up the specific guidelines, rubric, as to what an A presentation looks like.
 * The teacher will need to create the student page, with specifics as to what the students will be completing during the project. Student Page