Lesson Plan (Proposed for Week 9 - TP)

Integrated Curriculum – Multidisciplinary Curriculum Design

Year 4 or 5
Subject: Science
Topic: Life Cycle of a Frog

Questions:

1. Find the pictures of the life cycle and save them to the desktop.
2. List the steps in a frog life cycle.
3. Produce a report in MS_Word, including pictures that have been saved. 

Lesson Objectives:

As a whole: Using the Internet as a tool for pupils to produce a report.

1. Pupils to be able to use and utilize search engines.
2. Pupils to be able to save images from websites.
3. Pupils to be able to insert images in MS_Word.



Year 3
Subject: ICT
Topic: Getting Started with MS_Word.
Description: Pupils learn or review how to open and create file, format text, change font and point size.

Lesson Objectives:

1. Pupils to be familiarized with a word processing package.
2. Pupils to learn basic features of MS_Word (Typing and Formatting)
3. Pupils learn how to italize, bold, underline and change the point size.
4. Pupils to learn letter and punctuation placement on the keyboard.
5. Pupils to learn that only one space is needed between each word and two spaces needed between each sentence.
5. Review and learn how to start and quit the application.

Proposed Lesson Plan (ICT)

Subject: ICT
Topic: Instant Messaging using I-Chat on Macbook
Year: 3
Week: 7
Day: Monday
Date: 16th February 2009
Period: 1 (30 minutes)


Lesson Objectives:

1. For pupils to learn about e-communication.
2. For pupils to be able to analyse or deduce identities.



1. Teacher prepares Macbook and group pupils in pairs or threes.

2. Pupils log in to the student account.

3. Pupils point to the dock and click on I-Chat.

4. Teacher gives pupils a set of introductory questions for the pupils to ask one another via I-Chat. Answers to the questions are to be written down on a piece of paper each pupil. Pupils are to investigate whom they are chatting with.


Questions:

1. Hello, how are you today?
2. Are you a boy or a girl?
3. What colour is your pencil case?
4. What is your favourite food?
5. What is your father's name?


Plan B (Should there be problems with the Macbooks and Wireless Connection)
1. Number the diskettes backwards from the pupils' registration.
2. Distribute the diskettes.
3. Pupils retrieve the file with questions for them to answer and save the file.
4. Give the pupils time to answer the questions and ask them to save the files.
5. Collect diskettes and jumble them up.
6. Teacher distributes the diskettes randomly.
7. Pupils retrieve the files and try to guess the diskette that they have belongs to who.