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: 10 days, 45 minutes each day. Overall goal of the lesson: The goal of this lesson is for students to learn the Big Six Skills (a mandate of the New Haven School District). Students use technology for gathering and sharing information and will present this information in a paper. Rationale for the lesson: The lesson is designed to meet a New Haven Unified School district standard on teaching the Big Six Skills in information skills. Student academic outcome objectives: Students will learn: problem solving skills information classification manipulation and integration of information through the use of technology develop confidence in their work Student social outcome objectives: Students will learn to: enjoy the use of technology and research develop confidence Student technical skills outcome objectives: Students will be able to: navigate between Star Office and the Internet wrap text in a variety of formats such as centering, right/left alignment, and top/bottom alignment use the tool palette in the draw program import graphics from an Internet site to their document cut, copy and paste Grouping and use of technology in the classroom: The students will work in pairs at one computer and share the responsibilities for gathering information and producing a product. Back to Top  2. Classroom and Time Management Group Management: Students will be in a teams of two. The pairs will help to keep one another on task to get the project done and will help each other with research and peer editing. Time Management: Day Event 1-2 Teacher provides students with instructions on the assignment. Students will brainstorm about historical figures. Teacher provides a sheet of leading questions for the students to answer, which leads to the gathering of the information. 3 Teacher provides comparison questions for the students to answer about their lives and the historical figures the students have chosen. Students are to find information out about themselves and include this in the paper. The comparison allows them to learn about themselves, as well as the historical figure. 4-9 Students will then input their personal information into the computer, gather information on their historical figure from the Internet, and gather graphics/pictures from the Internet to place in their papers. 10 Students will evaluate each others' work and give positive feedback on their peer's work. Back to Top  3. Materials and Teacher Preparation As included within the Technical Skills Guide - StarOffice (Zipped - 1.4 Mb). Back to Top  4. Assessment Teacher will have a rubric: Title, picture, original drawing, grammatically correct sentence structures, text has to be relevant, and two sources with citation. Back to Top  5. Technical Skills Guide - StarOffice (Zipped - 1.4 Mb). Back to Top