WWW LESSON PLAN

VIRTUAL WRITING

Level: Form 4

Time: 80 minutes (Double period)

Language Skills: Reading and Writing (Typing)

Aims:

• To instill awareness for endangered animals.
• To encourage students to be independent learners; find information on their own.
• To build their use of vocabulary through writing.
• To encourage CCTS (critical and creative skills) through peer work.

Technical Requirements:

Computers (one computer for 2 students), Internet access, a Web Browser, Microsoft Word and e-mails (one from each pair).

Websites and Search engines:

• http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/29/27/
• http://www.google.com/
• http://www.yahoo.com/

Preparation:

1. Teacher must make sure that the following site is still available online: http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/29/27/
2. Teacher must also ensure that the computers are working and turned ‘ON’ and that each of them has connection to the Internet.
3. Teacher must make sure that the electronic worksheets for the lesson are pasted on each computer’s Desktop.

Procedure:

1. Teacher presents pictures of animals that are extinct on MS PowerPoint.
2. Teacher asks students what the animals have in common (they are endangered species). Teacher then introduces the topic of the day.
3. Teacher instructs students to get into pairs (40 students mean 20 computers will be used by each pair).
4. Teacher instructs the students to open the MS-Word worksheet entitled “Endangered Animals” on their Desktops.
5. Each partner is to discuss and choose ONE type of endangered species.
6. They then have to key in the name of the endangered species that they have chosen in the dotted line under the label “Help Save the …….”
7. Teacher instructs students to look at the yellow boxes with different headings. Each partner must find their chosen animal’s physical description, habitat, reasons of extinction, the numbers left in existence and actions that have been taken to save them.
8. Teacher then instructs each pair to type in the keywords: ‘Kids Konnect- Endangered Animals’ in the search engine and to click on the website of the same name.
9. The students can find the information in the ‘Links’ section on the ‘Endangered Animals’ website. The links will provide the information they need.
10. The students are free to browse through other websites using Yahoo! or Google search engines for additional information.
11. As the students search for the information, they have to fill in the boxes with only main points.
12. Once the students have finished Task Sheet #1 (labeled at the top of the page), the teacher explains their next task.
13. Students are required to type a short essay of less than 200 words based on the main points that they have found for Task Sheet #1.
14. Teacher shows her own sample of how task 2 should be done.
15. Students are required to work together on their essay (peer work). They must include a picture of the animal that they have chosen and if they have the time, are given the freedom to decorate their essay page.
16. Students are given stern warning on plagiarism.
17. Students have to hand in Task Sheets #1 and 2 (essay page) via their e-mails to the teacher (students are reminded to save their documents in their names to differentiate with the other students before they e-mail their worksheets).

Follow-Up Activity

1. Teacher recommends a website called 'Endangered Animals Game!' Students are required to log on to this website: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/endangered_animals/endangered_game.htm and play the game just for fun and also learn extra information about extinct animals portrayed on the website. They will share what they have learn in the next class.

'ENDANGERED ANIMALS' TASK & SAMPLE SHEETS

To Dr. Izaham,

I have sent the worksheets of my lesson plan to your gmail (as displayed above). Please notify me if you didn't receive them. Thank you.

CALL in READING

Hypertext the following article.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.
Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.