1st+Lesson+Plan

=Lesson Plan 1=


 * ====== **Date:** ====== || ====== **23 March 2010 Duration: 40 minutes Class: Year 6 No. Students: 23** ====== || ====== ====== || ====== ====== ||

**Overview**
This lesson plan has been developed as part of a strategy to use online Google maps for searching routes efficiently. Students will use a myriad of skills like searching routes, image-editing and multitasking to complete this activity. They will learn how to get a route from their home to school in Google Maps. Print Screen a website page, paste it into PowerPoint and crop the image. Their narrative skills are also called into play to describe each part of their journey to result in a descriptive and informative PowerPoint presentation.

**Resources**

 * Microsoft PowerPoint
 * Google Maps Online (http://maps.google.com) and Gmail Account
 * Students Network drive

Lesson Stages
Purpose || Working Patterns || Time Allocation || 1: Introduction || Introduce the lesson through lesson objectives ||  || 8 minutes || 2: Demonstration || This is to teach the students step by step process to achieve the final product i.e. the route map. ||  || 12 minutes || 3: Class work || Students try to create their route maps as instructed by the teacher with some guidance provided by the teacher ||  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">18 min || Guidance and help provided by teacherat various points where the students can experience difficulties use of print screen option on the keyboard || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8 minute || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4: Closure -Review & Assessment || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check few students work and provide suggestions to improve. ||  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 minutes ||
 * ===**<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stage **=== ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Formative assessment of existing skills – ask questions on how Ss have used Google Maps and PowerPoint before and to what extent.Presenting the lesson objectives || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This will enable the teacher to start off the lesson at a stage, which suits everybody’s comfort level.Clear understanding of the task and skills that students are going to learn. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 minute ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Show an example of the required completed PowerPoint showing the complete route from home to school. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Presents a constructivist teaching approach, building on previous knowledge and familiarity. Involve the students, ask them if they think the process is simple and easy to do. Ask how the process can be improved (keyboard shortcuts). Backwards-chaining technique allowing students to see what they can achieve and indirectly provide extrinsic motivation. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 minutes ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Opening PowerPoint; opening Google Maps website using Google search engine || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To aid the students in understanding what they will be doing, and how they will be doing it.If students see the purpose and the steps how to achieve, they will seem more interested in seeing it through to the final product, and most importantly, understand the techniques used to achieve the effects. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 minutes ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introduction to Google Maps- Searching for home and schools addresses. Getting the right route. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To set the scene and the basic setup of Google Maps. Giving the source (home address) and destination (School address) to trace the route so that students can see the dotted lines showing the route. Involve students by asking them the route names. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 minutes ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using Print screen Command to paste the route map toPowerPoint || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students learn the new command to Print a screen and paste it in PowerPoint. They also learn the term multitasking by switching from Google maps to Power-point applications. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 minute ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Selecting the crop tool from picture tool bar in power-point || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students learn the photo editing tool crop to cut the unwanted portions of an image. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 minute ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Giving descriptive text to the map in Power-Point || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To understand the distance covered in the route || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 minute ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students hands-on tocreate a new PowerPoint document || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students start by opening PowerPoint software and setting the layout || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 minute ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open Google Maps, login using Gmail account, work out directions from Home to School. Take a Print-Screen of segments of the journey. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Provide students with a starting point.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Paste images into PowerPoint and Crop image || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Guidance and help provided by teacher in using the crop tool which is used for editing the image || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 minutes ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Add text, descriptive narrative. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teacher guides the students to use the descriptive text tools to describe the route like ‘km’ covered to get the understanding of distance || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 minutes ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finishing touches and save the PowerPoint file || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Help students to save files to the student’s network drive || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 minutes ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Closing - Homework || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reviewing students saved routes and teacher instructs students to try out different routes at home as a part of homework. || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">T↔Ss || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 minutes ||

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Special Remarks
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Allow for trial and error before students get used to using the tools