Subject Matter

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Competencies

Lesson Plan Index

1. Problem-solving activity 1.
2. Students design a standard cover page for their assignment work for term 1.
3. At the same time, students take each other’s photograph with the school’s digital camera. Their photographs are to appear on the cover page of their assignments.
4. Photographs are downloaded and saved in the students’ own workspace where they are cropped.
5. Students create framework of favourite hyperlinks.

1. Problem-solving activity 2.
2. Revise publisher using a data show.
3. Design of a calendar for the months of the unit using Publisher.
4. Assessment dates are to be slotted in.
5. This is to be used as a diary for work to be completed this term. Students are told the dates when assessment is due, when the NetMeeting is happening and when the local community speaker will visit. These dates are entered into their calendars.

1. Problem-solving activity 3.
2. Students access problem-solving notes from the Intranet.
3. Activity 1 - Students access Polya’s problem-solving notes and answer the questions.
4. Students are to log on to the Internet and open an email account. All email addresses are to be recorded by the teacher.

1. 5 mins
2. 25 mins
3. 20 mins
4. 20 mins

1. Problem-solving activity 4.
2. Activity 2 - Students use online tutorial on email.

1. 5 mins
2. rest of lesson

1. Problem-solving activity 5.
2. Students return to tutorial.
3. Students visit URL on netiquette.
4. Activity 3 - Students visit interactive VECO workshop.
5. Students design their own signature files.
6. Students send emails with file attachments to each other. While this is happening, students complete their title pages and diaries.
7. Students record each other’s email addresses in the address book.

1. 5 mins
2. 10 mins
3. 10 mins
4. 15 mins
5. 10 mins
6. 10 mins
7. 10 mins

1. Problem-solving exercise 6.
2. Activity 4 - Students refer to the Glossary of Terms on the Intranet to complete the activity.
3. Activity 5 - Internet crossword
4. Activity 6 - Complete the Interactive activity on the Internet.
5. Activity 7 - Emoticons
6. if time, students complete recording each other’s email address in the address book.

1. 5 mins
2. 20 mins
3. 10 mins
4. 20 mins
5. 10 mins

1. Problem-solving activity 7.
2. Activity 8 - Divided into pairs and students work on navigation of Olympic site.
3. Activity 9 - Virtual tour of HMS Exeter.

1. 5 mins
2. 20 mins
3. rest of lesson

1. Problem-solving activity 8.
2. Activity 10 - Country Codes
3. Activity 11 - E-mail providers.  In pairs, students then complete the research table on email software and web based email. They report their findings to the rest of the class.

1. 5 mins
2. 10 mins
3. (rest of the lesson)

1. Problem-solving activity 9.
2. Activity 12 - Students complete interactive exercise on accessing archives.
3. Activity 13 - Classifying search engines.
4. Activity 14 - Log on to the Internet and search for local information on weather and surf conditions using video cam.
5. Activity 15 - Students are then to search the archives of a Sydney newspaper and find out what the weather was like in the city of Sydney last Saturday.

1. 5 mins
2. 20 mins
3. 15 mins
4. 10 mins
5. 15 mins

1. Problem-solving activity 10.
2. Activity 16 - Students practice search strategies.
3. Activity 17 - Search skills
4. Activity 18 - Research and report on endangered animals.

1. 5 mins
2. 15 mins
3. 15 mins
4. remainder of lesson

1. Problem-solving activity 11.
2. Students access the PowerPoint presentation on Web evaluation and general class discussion.
3. Activity 19 - Searching the Net and recording appropriate information about local library and holiday accommodation.

1. 5 mins
2. 15 mins
3. 45 mns

1. Problem-solving activity 12 and 13.
2. In pairs, students access the web evaluation sites.
3. Students search for more sites to evaluate and report back to the class.

1. 8 mins
2. 25 mins
3. 32 mins

1. Talk from a systems administrator in the local community.
2. Questioning time.

1. Problem-solving activity 14.
2. Referencing sources of information
3. Activity 20 - Students search the Internet for questions to ask other groups.  All sources must be properly referenced.
4. Webquiz game.  Teams work on answering the questions.

1. 5 mins
2. 10 mins
3. 25 mins
4. 25 mins

1. Problem-solving activity 15.
2. Project Discussion, teams of three.
3. Groups work on their project.

1. 5 mins
2. 25 mins
3. 35 mins

1. Problem-solving activity 16.
2. Groups work on project.

1. 5 mins
2. 60 mins

1. Problem-solving activity 17.
2. Groups work on project.

1. 5 mins
2. 60 mins

1. Problem-solving activity 18.
2. Preparation for the NetMeeting – go through Netiquette.
3. Go through the agenda.
4. Access the ash.org URL on copyright and discuss.
5. Practise logging on to the Netmeeting.

1.  5 mins
2. 10 mins
3. 10 mins
4. 5 mns
5. rest of the lesson

1. Problem-solving activity 20.
2. Assessment of PowerPoint presentation and orals.

1. 5 mins
2. Rest of the lesson

1. Problem-solving activity 21.
2. Assessment of PowerPoint presentation and orals.

1. 5 mins
2. Rest of the lesson

1. Problem-solving activity 22.
2. Web page assignment – on the Intranet – teacher discussion.
3. Students practise links, animated objects, scanning images, inserting photographs.

1. 5 mins
2. 25 mins
3. 35 mins