The
Lesson
Whole Class Teaching
Explain to the children that they are going to prepare a collaborative
presentation about tombs, pyramids and burial sites for the a class in
a younger year group.
The teacher shows the children how to access the Grid Club website. http://www.gridclub.com/fact_gadget/1001/history/ancient_egypt/index.html
The teacher is then going to produce an example PowerPoint slide using
information about The Sphinx. Show children how to open and minimise the
PowerPoint Egyptians.ppt
Q Which would be the key facts that I would want to include in my e-book?
The teacher can copy the graphic image and paste it into the PowerPoint
slide using this opportunity to remind children how to restore PowerPoint
from the task bar. Demonstrate or remind children, if necessary, how to
re-size the image by dragging one of the corner "handles". You
may also wish to show the children how to copy and paste key words (single
words) from the website into their PowerPoint slide. Emphasise that children
should write only short notes.
Q Why do you think the ancient Egyptians would want a statue such as this?
(One that is so large.)
The children may suggest that it is so large to ward off evil spirits
or as an offering to the gods. They may also suggest that it was intended
to be impressive and to demonstrate the pharaoh's power. It is important
to for the children to note that this information cannot be found in the
text and rather must be inferred. This is an important historical learning
objective.
The teacher should remind children of the importance of acknowledging
the source of their information, e.g. the URL for the information on Grid
Club in a small font size at the foot of their PowerPoint page.
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Main Activity
Children now go to their computers, open the Egyptians PowerPoint example
and save it with a new, suitable filename using the File, Save as command.
They should then minimise PowerPoint, launch Internet Explorer and navigate
to the Grid Club website http://www.gridclub.com/fact_gadget/1001/history/ancient_egypt/index.html
The children should concentrate on mummies, burial sites and tombs. The
teacher can allocate the subjects to different groups of children as appropriate.
As children are working the teacher should circulate and intervene as
necessary.
Q What are the keywords on this page?
Q Why have you chosen to include those facts?
Q Is your first fact the most important?
Q What additional information have you been able to include which is not
written on the page?
Ensure children save their work regularly.
Plenary
Towards the end of the lesson or at a suitable point ask the children
to change places with another group who have been working on the same
aspect of Egyptians, e.g. tombs.
Q Have they used the same facts or have they included any facts which
you could use to improve your presentation?
Children can return to their own computer and make amendments to their
presentation.
Prior to the next lesson the teacher should amalgamate a selection of
the children's slides into a single presentation. This can be done by
opening the teacher's presentation and then selecting Insert > Slides
from file. Browse to locate the children's work (which could be on a floppy
disk) and choose a file. Thumbnails of the page(s) will appear, select
a slide and click Insert. Repeat this process for each child's slide to
be included.
Any children whose slides have not been used in the final presentation
can be made responsible for speaking to the presentation as it is presented
to the class below.
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Why use ICT
Demonstrating: Using ICT the teacher can effectively illustrate
procedures needed to copy and paste information from a website on ancient
Egyptians.
Accessing and analysing: ICT allows access to information on the
Internet that provides the teacher with a wealth of material to encourage
children to analyse and interrogate the common features of ancient Egyptian
tombs, burials and pyramids. The material can be easily manipulated by
the children to provide information sources for their PowerPoint screens.
Presenting, re-presenting and communicating: The ability to create
a multimedia presentation from individual images selected from a variety
of sources, to meet the specific learning objectives of a unit. ICT allows
the teacher to amalgamate children's work into one finished presentation.
Using a data projector children can disseminate their findings on ancient
Egyptians to another class and encourages the development of speaking
and listening skills.
The Internet enables independent research and provides access to resources
that would not otherwise be available.
ICT provides the children with a finished product, complete with graphics
that don't have to be drawn by hand but can be acquired in a variety of
ways. This will be motivating to many children.
Testing and confirming:
The power of ICT allows speedy access to information. Children can be
encouraged to deepen their level of enquiry and generate their own questions
and hypotheses which they can then research on the Internet and confirm.
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