Non-Fiction Media Unit Plan:
Creating a “Breaking News” Website on Cassie Brown’s
Death on the Ice
Lesson 5: Creating the Website
Total Time: 50 minutes
Location: School Computer Lab or Learning Resources Centre
5 minutes – Administration
– Settle class down, take attendance, check homework, etc.
5 minutes – Dividing Students for Tasks
– The group who worked on page layout will be put to work creating that
layout
using a program such as Netscape Composer.
– Assign individual students to create a HTML document / page, one each,
for
each of the news stories and media releases. These students can work
as groups if
not enough computers are available.
– Remaining students can perform such tasks as scanning, editing, and preparing
pictures and graphics, or can work in groups with students creating news
story or
media release pages.
35 minutes – Group Work
– Students perform assigned tasks.
– All elements are combined into the final website.
5 minutes – Administration
– Assigning homework, tidy-up work space, prepare for dismissal, etc. |