Part B: Email, Chat and Instant Messaging and Education

Email

Lesson Plan: Email
Objective: Students will use individual e-mail accounts to compose, send, and receive e-mail messages, links, and other attached documents.

Procedure:
1. Introduce basic email concepts.
2. Tie in to the previous less on the Solar System and have each student write a 1 page paper about 1 planet in the solar system and save in Microsoft Word.
3. Establish an e-mail account by submitting an application to www.hotmail.com.
4. Choose a login name and password to protect their account.
5. Compose and send an e-mail to another student in the class.
6. The email will contain a greeting, body, and signature.
7. Students will attach a file (The Solar System Paper) in their email.
8. Students will send an e-mail to another student they do not know by using the Student Member Directory.


Chat

Lesson Plan: Chat
Objective: Students will search a site such as Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia located at http://en.wikipedia.org. to learn about Martin Luther King, Jr. for Black History Month.

Procedure:
1. Discuss what the students already know about Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Divide the students into small groups (3-4 students)
3. Have each group research on the Internet
4. In class. have each group chat online with each other about what they learned about Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. The first group to come up with 3 facts from each group about Martin Luther King, Jr. gets a point.


Instant Messaging (K-12 Outreach)

Lesson Plan: Instant Messaging
Objective: Students will learn safe ways to chat and message online.

Procedure:
1. Split the students into teams of four or five.
2. Give each team a name.
3. Instruct the students that they are to send messages to other groups without saying their own name, but only their team name.
4. Allow 5-10 minutes for the students to exchange messages between the different teams.
5. During the exchange of each message, each team is required to correctly use two terms in context from their current vocabulary or spelling list.
6. Remind students not to tell their age, height, gender, or any personal information about themselves that would give away their identities.
7. After the students have finished giving and receiving messages for a period, have the students guess who told the recorder what to write for each group. Students must be able to support their answer.