Internet Lesson Plan # 1

Mary Carroll, Nash

4-17-99

First Grade

Storybooks Online / Kitty Wants a Box

 

Objectives:

Academic:

    1. R- F3 Students will be able to make predictions prior to reading a story based on the title of the story and their own background experience with cats.

    2. R-F1 Students will be able to apply previously learned strategies to read an unfamiliar picture book online. In addition to using sight words they know, these strategies include: sounding out words, thinking about what would make sense, going back to the beginning of the sentence and re-reading, using the picture, looking for word "chunks" and looking for small words inside of big words.

    3. R-F3 Students will be able to comprehend the story and write why the Kitty needed a box.

Technological:

    1. Standard 1

 

Pre-Requisite Technology Skills:

    1. Students need to be familiar with basic technology vocabulary such as: keyboard, mouse, spacebar, click, file, exit and shut down.

    2. Students need to be able to start computer and access the internet using Netscape Communicator icon.

Materials:

Computers with internet access

http://www.magickeys.com/books/ (loaded into each computer as a bookmark)

Student Handout (Basic directions for lesson and space for students to write answers to comprehension questions)

Pencils

Projection device / Screen

Prior Activities:

    1. Before going to the lab, explain to students that they will be going to an Internet site called Children’s Storybooks Online. Tell students they will be sharing a computer with their buddy. Review behavior expectations for the library.

    2. Review basic computer terminology . Review steps to turn on computer and access the Internet Tell students they will STOP after clicking on the Netscape Navigator icon and we will go through the lesson together.

    3. Tell students that the story they will be reading with their partner is called Kitty Wants a Box. Ask students why a cat might want a box and record predictions on chart paper.

Procedures:

    1. Teacher has projector showing enlarged version of what the students’ screens should look like. Students start computers and access the internet. They can look at their review handout or up on your screen if they don’t remember what to do. Remind them to stop after clicking on the Netscape Navigator icon and that everyone’s screen should look the one projected on the large screen (It will be Peggy Steffen’s home page).

    2. Show students where the Bookmarks button is by pointing to it with your cursor. Tell students to use their mouse to just find Bookmarks. Check to make sure students have found it, then click on yours and have students click .

    3. Ask students to watch as you move the "blue" part up and down by moving their mouse up and down. Remind them not to click, but to just let each partner try moving the highlighted part up and down.

    4. Show students how to find Ms. Carroll’s name and then ask them to find it. Once all have found it, demonstrate how to move mouse to the right and find Children’s Storybooks Online. Have students find Children’s Storybooks Online and click on it (and WAIT).

    5. Have students read # 3 on handout with you and make sure their screen does indeed look like the picture on the handout.

    6. Demonstrate where the down and up scroll arrows are and tell students to let each partner just practice scrolling up and scrolling down. Show the difference between scrolling slow by just clicking on the arrow and scrolling fast by holding down the mouse button. Give students a few minutes to just practice.

    7. Have everyone scroll back up to the top and read #5 on their handout. Have students watch as you scroll down to the Kitty icon and click on it. Explain to students that they will have to scroll down to read the story and then scroll back up to let their partner read it.

    8. Once both partners have read the story, students move to tables and write their answers to questions at bottom of handout. After writing answers to questions, students give completed paper to the teacher. Teacher directs early finishers to click on "Back to Children’s Storybooks Online" and click on the ABC icon to read an alphabet story.

    9. When it is time to leave lab, show students how to click on File. Give everyone a chance to do it. Then show students how to click on Exit and let everyone do it. Demonstrate how to go to Start and click on Shut Down. Have students do it. Show how to click on O.K. in the box that comes up and then let students do it.

    10. Check to make sure all computers are shut down properly.

Assessment:

    1. Observe throughout the lesson, checking to see if students are able to successfully find bookmark, scroll up/down to read the story and properly shut down the computer.

    2. Listen to see if students are able to decode unfamiliar words in the story.

    3. Use students’ written answers to check for story comprehension.