Task 3: WWW Lesson Plan

"KNOW YOU MAPS"

LESSON PLAN

Form: Four
Level: Advanced
Time: 70 minutes (2 periods)
Theme: Places
Topic: Know Your Maps

Language Concerned: Grammar - Prepositions of Directions

General Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to have the ample understanding of prepositions of directions and the use of maps by using Google Maps.

Learning Outcomes:
Students should be able to:
1) know how to use a map using the Google Maps
2) transfer the given information into effectively and efficiently
3) look for information using internet browsers and search engines

Moral Values:

1)Cooperation: Students should give full cooperate in a group activity with other members.

2)Rationality: Students will be more rational in making decisions throughout the group project.

Educational Emphasis:
1) ICT Skills
2) Thinking Skills,
3) Multiple Intelligences
4) Creative and Critical Thinking Skills

Technological Prerequisites:
1) A computer room filled with fully functioning personal computers (maybe shared among 2 - 3 students per computer)
2) Microsoft Office 2003/2007
3) Internet Accessibility
3) Web browsers : Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox

Preparation:

1)Using the internet browsers, browse
-pictures of the planet Earth and Google Maps webpage

-some interesting websites of interesting places in the world

-a video on using the Google Maps

2)provide several marker pens and mahjong papers
2)prepare a worksheet to recap the previous lesson

Websites:
1) Google (http://www.google.com/)
2) Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/)
3)Youtube(http://www.youtube.com/&http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ADbeCHQLUpk)

4)Amolife(http://amolife.com/great-places/10-interesting-places-to-visit-before-you-die.html)

Previous Knowledge: Students have learned the rules and the examples of prepositions of directions.

Teaching Procedure:

Set Induction
(5 minutes)
1) Teacher shows students a picture of the Earth on a white board screen using the electronic projector

2) Teacher asks a few questions about the planet Earth to some students:
-When you see the picture, what are the things that you could find on the planet Earth?

-Where are the places on Earth you would like to pay a visit?

-If you want to go to any places on Earth, what should we have or do?
3)Teacher provides concise descriptions the use of a map and its significances to people generally.

Preface
(10 minutes)
1) Teacher asks students if they be familiar with or have encountered with other alternatives of technologies which provide the use of maps other than the traditional maps that printed on papers.
2) Teacher tells students to search the alternative gadgets using the internet browsers and write them down in their book with at least 3 gadgets with their descriptions in one sentence.

Examples (for teacher's use):

GPS

Navigator

Smart Phones

3) Teacher responds the students’ answers and discuses explicitly
4) Teacher introduces students with the topic of the lesson: “Know Your Maps”

Development

Activity 1
(20 minutes)

1) Teacher shows a video on Youtube on "Google Maps Introduction".

2) Teacher asks students to open up the Google Maps (GM) webpage using any internet browsers available and teaches them how to use it explicitly.

3) Teacher comes up with several places e.g. the school, shopping malls or interesting places in Malaysia and inquires students to search for the maps of the selected places using the GM.
4) Teacher facilitates students’ work and provides aids if needed.
5) Teacher asks for students opinions of using GM and discuss about it.


Activity 2
(30 minutes)
1) Teacher recaps the previous lesson on prepositions of directions with students by giving a worksheet and asks them to complete it in 3-5 minutes, and later discusses the answers with students.

2) Teacher asks directs students into 6 groups which consist of 5 members per group.
3) Teacher provides instructions to the 1st activity:

-The group’s leader is needed to pick an exciting place at the nearby district that teacher has decided.
-Using GM, search for the maps of the selected places and the routes used.
-After found the ‘right’ map, each group has to come up with a direction based on the maps using the words of prepositions.
-Later, one representative of each group has to come in front and read the concocted direction.
-Other groups have to draw a map out of the directions that have been read in a piece of mahjong paper that teacher has provided.
-Each group later will show their maps in front of the classroom and the winning group will be determined based on the details and the precise of map based on the directions given from each group.

-Teacher will provide examples of direction and a mock-up map for better understanding.

Example:

The Map from GM

The Directions based on the Map

The Outcome from the Directions


Conclusion

(5 minutes)
1)Teacher recaps what has been learned during the lesson with students.

2)Teacher asks students some questions based on the topic in order to assess their understanding.
2) Teacher implicitly discusses the moral values they learn on the lesson.

Follow-up Activity:

Students are required to draw a map of streets from their houses to the school. The maps can be either as precise as Google Maps’ like; with the use of Google Maps itself or as creative as they could. Along with the maps, students are required to identify at least 2 routes from the map and choose only 1 route with the shortest and most interesting path to the school with the reasons why they chose the path. The descriptions can be either in point-form or an essay-form of one (1) paragraph. The work should be submitted by hand the following week.

Example of map:

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