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Grade 7


Introduction

Internet is the largest library that we can find in the world. The scope is very wide, but can easily accessible to everyone. So this is one of the most important sources for the students to study. In the internet web pages and E-mails are the most famous from of communication for many people collaboration across the others. Through the web pages students may find lot of information about their subject matters and other sources.
Through investigation and experiment students study the science lesson “Natural disasters and management”. Here students collaborate with other groups and do investigations to find out the results of their places, according to the above mentioned topic. Then selecting the facts makes web pages to deliver the messages among the other students. Using this method teacher do the lesson successfully, because it helps to prevent monotony among the students. Now a day web site is one of the most suitable communication tools. Here teacher can publish descriptions of current work of the lesson on the internet to know the students.



Description

In this lesson teacher should have collaborate with the students to discuss about the lesson, because teacher should be made aware of them about the lesson plan and its procedure. The class should be 30 students and their may be 15 computers. Teacher gives 160 minutes to complete the task. Their final production should be their own web page of “Natural disasters and managements”. This is one of the science lessons of grade 7 students. So it may be somewhat different than their manual class-rooms lesson. To do this task it’s better to place the two students in each computer.

Objectives

Through this lesson students improve general knowledge of Natural disasters and managements. There the students have to create a web page according to the given topic. Under this task students improve their creativity. When they creating web pages they should have ability to use layout selection, font, structures and other tools in a organize manner. So finally students may be a good creator as well as good designer. Here pupils improve their writing skills.
Students should able to access the internet to gather specific information to make web pages. So here students identify and accepts the important of internet and web pages. Here teacher assign them to experiment the web pages. So the students should be a good experimenter, because they will have to consider the various aspects of the communication process, receiver, content, layout, structure and navigations.

Pedagogical aspects

In this lesson students experiment to web page designing to select proper layout, font, structure and navigations to their web pages, because it helps to avoid the fascinations. Finally students should have ability to create proper web pages for their lesson. Using internet they should bale to find relevant information and images for their web pages. Here they should have to consider about the purpose of designing web pages, target group, communication situation, structure and navigation, layout, production, publishing and other relevant tools.
Teacher leads the discussion to select a proper layout for their web pages, because teacher must give instruction it use a same layout for their all pages and same font style and other relevant feature, because it should be eye catching. In here teacher discuss about the selected name of the web pages and the links between the pages and publishing, because it helps to create successful designing. Finally teacher gives more room to review the publication to grade 8 students. Then according to their view points they should have ability to make changing where necessary.

Aspects of ICT

Here students use internet to gather relevant information. So the students should able to handle web pages. It helps to get some ideas of designing web pages. Through this task students should have to consider about their target group. To get audience attention for their web pages should include proper layout, font size, font colors and background, etc. So the students should have ability to handle navigations and proper management. When they creating a web page should have to consider about the text and images which relevant to their target group.
The long text can make it more manageably by dividing it in to paragraphs, and giving each a suitable heading. Students can use bullets or numbers to organize an index a list of task or instructions. Not only that they should bale to create book marks to access it easily. As a planning tool they can choose to make a structural diagram. That can be made on the black-board or a piece of cardboard cards.

Pre-requirements
Of teachers,
Teacher should have ability to communicate in English. In this lesson teacher use the internet to find the relevant images and download specific facts. Here teacher displays the sample web pages (attached in “sample web site to grade 7” folder) to convey clear ideas about the lesson and the task that the teacher going to give them. When doing this lesson teacher should have ability to select proper layout, font style, font sizes, headings, colors and images. Mainly in this lesson teacher should have to instruct the students to create web pages. So teacher should have a proper knowledge of internet and as well as the web pages.
When choosing the content of a site, students must consider the target groups and it applies when it comes to the structure and appearance of the page, its layout. To give them above mentioned instructions teacher should have a slight understanding of web designing. Especially in this lesson teacher should advice them to go for a simple layout with a limited amount of typographical effects, because it helps to create a readability of the web pages. Here teacher should advice the students to work with table to get excellent advantage of formatting a page.


Of students,
To make and advance web pages as the grade 7 students should able to handle the internet and web design properly. Before starting the task they should be considerate and conscious of whom they are communicating to, what they wish to say and what aids are appropriate to use. Students should have to work together and must communicate and argue, because they are constantly making choice and evaluating the results of their experiments.
Students should have to use particular font style, colors and characteristics illustrations, logos or other decorative elements. When students create their own web pages, they should also consider about the screen layout. Their web pages must organize in a way that seems logical to the reader. Materials published on the web should also be structured in a way that is comprehensible to the audience. Especially in web designing students must create connections between the pages that achieve the expectations and needs of the user.
Not only should that student have to consider about the body text and layout more than the other attractions. They should have to place illustrations and text both attractively and manageably. They should able to use tables to control the position of text and images in relation to each other. Here students must consider about the choosing of background color that suits the heading and image. Students should consider how they will let the user experience the web site and whether it follows the logical structure of the material. Putting the heading and sub-headings to their web pages is also one of the main tasks for the students.

Activity plan of the lesson

Step 01(Analyzing)

Teacher makes aware the students of the lesson. Then assign to do the following task.

v Investigate the factors responsible for floods and land slides.
v Manage the challenges associated with floods and land slides.

According to the above facts let the students to make web pages in a creative way. First of all teacher should provide room to experiment the web design and select a proper layout and structure. (20 minutes)

Step 02(Collecting information)

Teacher provide sometime to collect the information. Here teacher should ask the students to use the internet to gather relevant facts. Using note pad or piece of paper they should bale to copy down the relevant facts. According to gathered information ask them to categorize it in to a column or a paragraph or in any position. Teacher instructs the students to use tables, paragraphs, headings, sub-headings. Here teacher asks the students to use mind map to plan the task. (20 minutes)

Step 03(Structuring of the material)

Here students should have to structure the materials. According to their mind map ask the students to structure the web pages using proper layout, fonts, colors and images. Teacher instructs the students to make a proper link between the all web pages. Planning make it much easier to students. (15 minutes)

Step 04(Digitalizing)

After structuring the web pages students should have to digitalize the materials. Teacher instructs the students to make the pictures and other relevant texts with a suitable capacity; if the pictures become larger it takes more capacity. So the presentation becomes very slow. Here teacher makes aware the students about the copy-right facilities. There the students should consider about the converting of the web pages. Ask the students to check whether their web pages should have the ability of presenting all computers.
(20 minutes)
Step 05(designing)

Teacher leads a discussion to design the web pages. In the beginning of the lesson teacher give room to select a proper web design. So here teacher helps them to make changing of web pages where necessary. Next students should consider what the pages should look like. Ask the students to decide the color of web site and choose the text color which is necessary for the reader. Through these all the things assign the students to design the web site. (15 minutes)

Step 06(Editing and reviewing)

Teacher asks the students to make sure about the structural diagram and all of the material exists in a digital format. Then using font styles, font sizes, font colors, images, navigations and other tools can be edited the actual production of the pages. According to the plan students should create a hyperlink between all the pages, and texts. And images should place in a proper way. Give them a chance to check whether the site looks good or bad in a browser. Ask the students to test the links and the functionality of the web site. (40 minutes)

Step 07(Publishing)

After editing the web site and testing it from their computer’s hard disk. If it should be seen by others on a local network, ask the students to put it on a drive that everyone can access. Here teacher should have to get the help of computer teacher. Then ask the students to present the web site to grade 8 students. According to their views make changing should able to publish their web site on the internet. For that the computer teacher will help them. Finally teacher evaluates the students’ creation and their efforts.
(30 minutes)