1. Lesson Description 2. Classroom and Time Management 3. Materials and Teacher Preparation 4. Assessment 5. Technical Skills Guide  1. Lesson Description Period of time required for lesson: 4 days, 1 hour each day. Overall goal of the lesson: The goal of this lesson is to have students research, collect and organize data from California Native American web sites for the purpose of creating a database of informative sites. Students will then use the information gathered to write a report on one of the Californian Native American tribes. The final step is for the students to publish the database, either on the Payne Elementary web site or in book form for other students and schools to use. Rationale for the lesson: This lesson is designed to share information that the students have collected and organized. This lesson also allows students to learn about the characteristics of a web site and manage its information. Students will have to analyze the information in order to decide if it is valid and worth using. This lesson meets both the Technology and Social Science standard for the 4th grade. Students are to study California Native Americans and their cultures as well integrating technology. Student academic outcome objectives: Students will be able to: organize information from the Internet create a table/database to organize information earn more about the features of a web site learn and gather information on California Native Americans synthesize and evaluate the information gathered and produce a report on California Native Americans Student social outcome objectives: Students will be able to: learn the importance of sharing and disseminating information work in co-operative groups Student technical skills outcome objectives: Students will be able to: creation of a database within Star Writer 5.1 change size of columns and width input information into the database import information from the Internet into the database i.e copying and pasting the URLs save the database tile open programs vertically in Star Office 5.1 landscape a page transfer the document into HTML Grouping and use of technology in the classroom: Students will be in a computer lab with two students per computer. They will create their own files and place information to those files. Although each student will input information into one computer, each student should have their own computer to gather information from the internet. Back to Top  2. Classroom and Time Management Group Management: Students should be in groups of 3 and grouped heterogeneously. The instructor will assign a specific region or area of California for research to each team. The regions are: Southern California, Desert, Coastal, Central Valley, and Mountains, Bay Area. Time Management: Day Event 1 Students will be given an information sheet with the regions and keywords to use when searching the Internet. Then assign 5-6 students to each group. With the instructor, students should brainstorm the characteristics of a web site and information they want to collect. Some examples are: Web address, title, tribes that the web site lists, images, links, video and ease of use on a scale of 1-5. Students will create the table capturing these characteristics of each website and save it to their file. 2 Students will be taught how to tile vertically and how to interchange between files that are open. Tiling vertically and looking at a web site, i.e. navigating the web will be demonstrated by the teacher. When ready, students should then begin research. 3 Students will continue with research, filling in their table with appropriate information. 4 The lesson will conclude with a discussion on what to do with the information and how to share this information with others. Back to Top  3. Materials and Teacher Preparation As included within the Technical Skills Guide - StarOffice (Zipped - 678 Kb). Back to Top  4. Assessment For Technical skills: The creation of the table/database and meeting the requirements for the table/database. Individual skills: Informally to see if the information is used at a later date for the research paper that will be done. Back to Top  5. Technical Skills Guide - StarOffice (Zipped - 678 Kb). Back to Top