Lesson Plan - Instant Messaging for Year 3

Subject : ICT
Topic : Instant Messaging using I-Chat on Macbook
Year : 3
Week : 7
Day : Monday
Date : 16th February 2009
Period : 1 (30 minutes)


Lesson Objectives:
1. For pupils to learn about e-communication.
2. For pupils to be able to analyse or deduce identities.


Steps:
1. Teacher prepares Macbook and group pupils in pairs or threes.
2. Pupils log in to the student account.
3. Pupils point to the dock and click on I-Chat.
4. Teacher gives pupils a set of introductory questions for the pupils to ask one another via I-Chat. Answers to the questions are to be written down on a piece of paper each pupil. Pupils are to investigate whom they are chatting with.

Questions:
1. Hello, how are you today?
2. Are you a boy or a girl?
3. What colour is your pencil case?
4. What is your favourite food?
5. What is your father's name?

Plan B (Should there be problems with the Macbooks and Wireless Connection)
1. Number the diskettes backwards from the registration.
2. Distribute the diskettes.
3. Give the pupils time to answer the questions and ask them to save the files.
4. Collect diskettes.
5. Jumble them up, and distribute the diskettes again.
6. See if the pupils can guess which diskettes belongs to whom.