General Learning Outcomes: The intent of the assignment is to help the students develop an understanding and appreciation of how people in ancient civilizations (Greece) met their basic needs by using various internet resources.
Specific Learning Outcomes:
-The students will use the internet to collect and organize information using a data base as their resource.
-Locate information on the topic from more than one resource
-Use a blog to post a fictional story
-Students will understand how to use basic internet searches using sites provided
-Students will collect and organize information using a data base
-Student will use a computer program to write a story
-Students will understand how the ancient Greeks met their basic needs
-They will understand that weather and Geography affected how the Greeks met their basic needs
ICT Outcomes:
-Students will use electronic research techniques to enhance understanding and acquire knowledge
-Students will compose, revise and edit text
-Students will organize and manipulate data
-Students will communicate ideas through multimedia
-Students will use technology to investigate problems
Outline for activity
I will start the class by going over what some of the basic needs of life are: food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and also discuss other needs: psychological, religious, political, and social. I would explain to the class what all these needs entail and get them to think about how their lives would be different if we didn’t have the things we do today to meet our needs, like: grocery stores or clothing stores. I would then explain to the kids that the ancient Greeks met their needs in very different ways than we did today. The kids would then be either grouped in pairs or alone (depending on the number of computers available) and start to search for the ways that the ancient Greeks met their most basic needs. The children would write their ideas down in point form on a sheet of paper. After they collected all the information they need I would ask them to write a fictional story of a day in the life of an ancient Greek, describing how the Greeks met their basic needs in that day. The students would then write their ideas out in a classroom blog so that all the other classmates could read the various posts of all the students, therefore learning from each other. This assignment also allows the student to be a little creative as they plan out what they are going to write.
Technology integration is a great tool in this lesson because the lesson covers at least five of the ICT learning outcomes, and probably many more. The students will get more comfortable using search engines on the internet as well as learning how to blog and sharing their stories with the whole class. The web sites are really well set up and I believe the students will have a lot of fun researching on these sites. When students have fun and are interested in the project, the quality of their work most likely improves as well.
A great site for kids to look up information on ancient Greeks:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/index.htm
A very well organized web site for the kids to search on:
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Greeklife.html
An advanced site for kids who want to do extra work:
http://www.answers.com/topic/ancient-greece
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