SoSt. 450
Internet Learning Activity
1.
Students
will gather and use data from a local, national, and world newspaper web site
on the bombings on America and America striking back.
2.
Students
will take their findings on both sides of the attacks and formulate a point of
view on the topic.
3.
Students
will use actual facts from the web sites to form their conclusions and use the
facts in their one page letter to the editor article.
4.
Students
will read their articles to the class and then there will be a class discussion
on the student’s findings.
5.
As
a result students will have a better understanding of how to form a conclusion
given the information.
6.
Students
will also learn how to have a tactful class discussion on a sensitive subject.
1.
Students
will obtain data from a local, national, and world newspaper articles via the
Internet, use this data to form a point of view. The students will be evaluated on:
-
participation
in the computer lab,
-
one
article from each of the three different newspapers supporting their point of
view,
-
facts
in their point of view.
2.
Participation
during the class discussion.
This activity fits well with any current event
classes, world geography, and world cultures and research projects.
1.
Students
should be seated at his or her own computer that has access to the Internet.
2.
The
students will be given a list of web sites to look at from the three different
areas.
National:
World:
http://www.english.pravada.ru/hotspots/2001/08/01/11487.html
http://www.canada.com/national/globalnational
http://www.fyicalgary.com/societe.shtml
http://www.sabawoon.com/articles.asp?id=594&view=detail
http://www.omaid.com/eng_section.htm
3. The students will be told to browse the web sites and to read some of the articles, to get a feel for the web sites.
4.
The
students will have the rest of the day to browse the sites.
5.
The
students should start to form a point of view to write their article on.
1.
Students
will again browse the web sites.
2.
The
students now should be narrowing down the three articles to print that will
support their point of view.
3.
Once
the students have located their three articles they should print them off, so
they will have a reference to start to write their articles.
1.
Students
should be finishing up browsing the web sites and should have three articles
printed off.
2.
The
remainder of the day will be given to the students to write their one page
letter to the editor articles.
1.
Students
will read their letters aloud to the class.
2.
Students
will then discuss the activity and the letters that they wrote.
3.
Students
will be reminded that the discussion will be done in a tactful way and that
everyone has the right to their own opinion and point of view.