This lesson plan teaches teachers how to effectively conduct research using the internet. It includes the following:
- Identifying popular search engines like Google and using them to find educational websites.
- Distinguishing different types of websites like educational, commercial, and government.
- Selecting reliable websites with accurate, up-to-date information by evaluating criteria like author and copyright.
- Citing internet resources using APA style.
The plan involves direct instruction, demonstrations of search techniques, practice tasks, and an assessment of teachers' understanding.
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Goal 4: Teachers will be able to select and utilize the useful websites for doing
researches by the internet.
Objective:
Teacher will be able to identify the most popular search tools for finding
information on the internet including Web search engines. Teacher will use
internet to find the most popular search tools and write description around 500
words or less about each one.
Teacher will be able to open and use the search engines such as Google and Ask
to search. Teacher will open Google engine and write about educational
technology to find some information.
Teacher will be able to distinguish between different types of website like
educational, commercial enterprise and governmental body. Teacher will be
asking to search for three type of educational website that illustrates three of
educational features.
Teacher will be able to select and search for useful and reliable website with
accurate information to be used for conducting research. Teacher will make table
for two educational website to look for the copyright, author and update of
information with total mastery 80%
Teacher will be able to identify how to cite resources from the internet according
to APA style. Teacher will write lest of resources getting from internet with using
APA style at least 3 resources.
Instructional Strategy
1. Direct Instruction (Lecture)
Pre-instructional activities
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We will provide video which demonstrate how teachers can conduct research
using useful website to find information.
We will make discussion about what the way that teachers use to find
electronic information to know teachers background about conducting
research.
Presentation of information
At the beginning of the lesson we will start by open the internet browsers for example
internet explorer, then we will show the most popularWeb search engines and ask teacher
to follow what we are doing. After that we will show Google and Ask engine by provide
some information about its using. We ask them to try each one to find what the features
of each one and make sure that they are taken note to review it later. After they see such
information about these search engine ask them to write small description about each one
and what they prefer.
Then we will move to using the search engine Google or Ask .We open the most popular
is Google and start to search for things and let teacher to do what we are doing. For
example we write about school and see the different type of information web, images,
2. videos and maps. All these step should applied by teacher later. They will use Google
search engine and will search for educational technology with images.
Next we will teach teacher about different type of website that they will use it later in
their research. We will use Google engine to search for educational website, commercial
enterprise and governmental body and should we show the different at the end of URL
include such short cut (edu, com, mo, net and Gov.).They teacher should write not about
these type of website. Then we will show that educational website is most appropriate for
education research.
Then we will move to teach teachers how to select useful website with trust information.
We will present video about the most things that should be aware when they search for
information. Also, we will open an educational website and evaluate it if useful or not by
looking for author and update of information and copyright. Teacher will follow the way
that we are doing and then will search for another good website just to make sure if they
understand how to do that.
At the end of this lesson we will present the way of how cite recourses from internet by
showing how to write it by using APA style. Teachers will going to search for some
recourses and then will go to cite these according to APA styles that we have teach them
before.
Practice and feedback
At the end of each lesson will give teachers tasks to doing for minutes to make sure if
they understand what they have learned. Also, during the lesson will ask them some
question about the lesson to know if they are with us or not. We will give teacher
instructions how they can use research engine
Assessment
Teacher will be asked to:
- Prepare report about the useful way to conduct research via the internet using
the Google or Ask engine and how select educational website with trust
information.
- Write the criteria for useful websites that should be looking it for when search
for websites.
Materials
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Internet access
Computers or laptops
Papers
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Adobe Flash Player
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