Connie Patty

EDAD 518

Lesson Plan 2

 

Goals & Objectives:

1.      Students will use prior knowledge of “safe surfing on the net” to locate sites related to an      established research topic.

2.      Students will use prior knowledge of how to use Microsoft Word to open a document.

3.      Students will be able to create a “Hot Sheet” including no less that 5 hyper-links about a specific research topic.

4.      Students will be able to print out their “Hot Sheet” as well as save their information on a 3x5 floppy disk.

 

CLASS:  Intervention History – 13 students

 

TIME:  60 minutes

 

LOCATION: Meet in the classroom for instruction and closure.  Meet in the computer lab for computer   and internet access.

 

PURPOSE:  students will use the hot-sheets they create to provide quick reference to pre-established sites about the Civil War.

 

SUPPLIES:  Pen, Paper, Handout (Steps to creating a hot sheet.

 

PROCEEDURE:  Before class have handouts created.  Have a computer turned on with a hot sheet ready for use and a visual.  Also, have the Internet turned on.  Minimize the hot sheet and the Internet.

In the classroom, introduce the lesson to the class.

 Review rules and guidelines for using the Internet such as:  How to be direct with your request to a search engine, monitor yourself and use your time wisely so you do not get lost in the web.

Review how to use Microsoft Word to create a document, copy/paste, and how to save your document to a disk.

Review the specific topics that they will be researching and what their purpose will be in the lab today.

Introduce the Hot Sheet

Show students a Hot Sheet that you have already created.  Inform students that this is a document to store Internet sites.

Demonstrate that by clicking on one of the URL addresses you have direct assess to your sites.

Inform students that today they will be required to find a minimum of 5 sites related to their topic and make their own Hot Sheet.

Explain how to copy/paste the URL Address onto a word document.  Demonstrate by copy/pasting the site you already have open from earlier demonstration.

Demonstrate also how to include notes about the site beneath the address.

Pass out handouts and go to the lab.

 Students are to open a word document and minimize it.

Then they are to get on the Internet, use a search engine and find sites related to their topic.

When they find a site they are to raise their hand and begin looking at the information

When all students have a site, then walk all students through the following steps.

Highlight the URI Address

Go to edit and then copy

Maximize word document

Click on the page

Then go to edit and then paste

Push enter

When the URL Address becomes blue it is a hyperlink

Have students click on their new address to try it out

Close this site

Now try one on your own.

Instruct students to print a copy of their hot sheet with 5 sites then save it on then disk.

 

EVALUATION: 

1. After observing how to create a hot sheet students will be able to successfully create a hot sheet of related websites using a handout for guidance.

 

2. Students will print out a copy of their hot sheet for verification.

 

3. Students will be able to save their information to a 3x5 disk.

 

This lesson fulfills goals

14D     16A

14F      16E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connie Patty EDAD  518

 

Report on lesson.

 

Students listened and observed in the classroom.  When we got to the lab however, they were very eager to try out their new skills.  This led to some chaos at the beginning.  I called for their attention and then began a step by step for opening a new word document then minimize it.  We then went out on the net.  Students once again tried to move ahead.  It was difficult to keep some waiting while others continued to search for their first site.

I ended up teaching the steps to groups of three or four at a time.  Soon I had students helping other students.

All students were able to complete their assignment of creating a hot sheet, printing it out and saving it to a disk.

 

It was amazing to see my structured plan begin to break apart and then be rescued by student empowering themselves.  I would say the lesson was successful for all