Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Computer Exploration Lesson Plan

I have been sorting through the boxes of my childhood and came across this lesson plan I must have made in middle school.... This is the typed version of it, trying to cut down on the amount of "things" and thought this could easily be saved and put digital =). I think at one point I probably had created all the material that is referenced here, but that has been lost in time. In general I just think I was a super cute nerdy child =)

Class Size: 4 or 6
Task Time: 30 Minuets
Break Time: 10 Minuets

Day 1
9:00 Take attendance
9:05 Introduce yourself (write on board, say, wear a name tag)
9:10 Students stand up and say their names
9:20 Color pictures from a coloring book
9:30 Break (go potty, get a drink of water)
9:40 Show Materials and answer questions
10:00 Hand out computer book
10:10 Break (same)
10:20 Do first activity
10:40 Quiet goal setting time, students make ribbons for when they meet their goals
11:00 Read story 1
11:10 Break
11:20 Chalk computer parts(students chose of computers)
11:40 Clean up room
11:50 Parents arrive

Day 2
9:00 Color 2 pictures from the book
9:10 do demonstration by showing computer their disassembling and the parts they have colored compare similarities of the pictures colored NOT THE DIFFERENCES
9:30 Break
9:40 Read about disk drive
10:00 do Journal #1
10:15 Give children hard disk to utilize (look at/ disassemble) in room
10:30 Break
10:40 look at different disk drives in pictures
11:05 Discussion kids ask questions and talk in a group
11:15 play "the way things work" in pairs on the computer section
11:50 end game parents arrive

Day 3
9:00 Game #1 Prep
9:30 Break
9:40 Snack
9:50 continue working on game 1
10:30 Break
10:40 keep working on Game 1
11:30 stop work and clean up
11:50 parents come

Day 4

9:00 finish prep on Game #1
9:45 Break
9:55 go into rooms and do journal #2
10:20 make 2 teams and race the clock assembling the 3d disk drive
10:50 go to computer lab and start assembling disk drive
11:20 Break
11:30 Continue activity from 10:50
11:45 Get ready to go
11:50 parents come

Day 5
9:00 work on disk drive (if finished pay with extra parts)
10:00 Break
10:10 Clean up (store drive in cabinet)
10:20 Paint ( Put on over head picture #1)
11:00 Break
11:10 Hand out mice parts to be assembled (let kids play with them)
11:44 Clean up
11:55 Parents arrive

Day 6
9:00Hand out picture #2 along with Picture #3 and a part book listing part names and uses
9:10 start assembling mince
10:00 Break
10:10 Do Journal #3
10:30 Break
10:40 Keep working on mice
11:40 Clean up
11:50 parents arrive

Day 7
9:00 pass around live mouse than pass around computer mouse
9:20 Journal #4
9:40 work on mice
10:20 Break
10:30 Bring out items and have students create a mouse oout of them (real or computer)
11:30 time in small room
11:50 parents come

Week 2
* during this week kids will be allowed to work more freely be sure to take pictures
* In each little room put all info needed for each part
     Room 1 - Keyboard and attaching mouse
     Room 2 - Laser
     Room 3 - Electric Motor
     4,5,6 - keep as quiet rooms

Day 8
9:00 give out Pict #4 and following to do list
- in room 1 you will find all info to put together a keyboard (parks in box on desk)
- On Art table you will find paper to pain a keyboard
- on the bored is the journal question #5
9:10 tell them they have 3 days and you will call breaks
10:30 snack and Break
10:50 start work
11:30 break
11:40 Clean up
11:50 parents arrive

Day 9
9:00 start working on list
10:30 Break

10:40 start work
11:30 break
11:40 Clean up
11:50 parents arrive

Day 10
(same as day 9)


Student Supply list
1 folder (no pictures)
1 Box of crayons/ colored pencils
1 box of water colors
5 1 subject notebooks

would like
1 box of crackers
juice boxes
2 liters of juice
klenex
paper cups
paper plates




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