Thoughts on TPACK

In our experiment, we used every knowledge in TPACK. For Content, we used Standard 3, Objective 3 in Utah's 1st grade core curriculum, which states that students will be able to "Collect, organize, and represent simple data." We accomplished this through the sorting of M&M's into flavor and color groups, and then creating a graph from the information we found. For Pedagogy, we tried to make the experiment interesting for the students by supplying M&M's for them to eat once the experiment was over. They students would also be working in small groups to encourage students to work together to get the information. The teacher would walk around the classroom, helping the groups when they needed assistance. Lastly, for techology, we used the graphing tool on PowerPoint. There are clear options for multiple types of graphs, and entering the data was relatively easy. Young students would be able to use this after some modeling by the teacher and supervision during the experiment.