Tourism Lesson Plan

Date:               Thursday, 3^rd May, 2012

Class:               Grade Six

Subject:          Social Studies – Tourism

Duration:        15 minutes

Prerequisites: Students are aware that people travel  for various reasons

Specific Objectives – At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

• Identify the different types of tourists
• List three advantages and disadvantages of tourism

Introduction: Tourism video of Antigua and Barbuda

Procedure:     Students observe and discuss as the teacher presents information in slide form.

Closure:    Students will participate in the interactive quiz projected from the screen
Teacher’s Reflection:

Day Two of the ICT Workshop (part 2)

Internet Research

The second presentation was on the way with Mrs. Williams-Angmor. Although we were plagued with technical difficulties, the presentation in general was very informative.

Do you believe that technology is pulling us or are we leading the way?

Through search engines we are able to access just about anything in the world with just a few click.

Here are a few thing we should keep in mind when doing a websearch and a list of websites that could be very useful.

How to Validate a Website

Check the name

Check links
Recognise the domain name
Checking extension of the domain name - (.edu  .net and so on)
Country code (.ag  .uk etc)

You could apply the acronym REAL:

Read the URL

Examine the Content
Ask about the author
Learn from what you see

USEFUL WEBSITES

www.ownerdomaintools.com

www.whois.com  allows you to go to the website to identify the person or organisation who owns the website 

www.archieve.org   tells when the site was first started  shots of page and any changes over a period of time. 

REPUTABLE WEBSITES

www.noodletools.com

www.wix.com allow you to view free websites

www.hotpot.uvic.ca

allow you to create interactive multiple choice

short answer
jumbled sentences
crossword
matching and ordering
Fill in the gaps

www.eclipsecrossword.com  allow you to create crossword puzzles

The first half of our day ended with a multiple mouse activity done using powerpoint and the multiple mouse tab which can be downloaded from the internet.

I trust that we all will find this useful in preparing for our classes.

Day Two of the ICT Workshop

The second day of the ITC Workshop beagn with devotions by Mr. Ronald Greenaway.  Our first presenter was Mr. Kevin Joseph, discuss the use of the internet around the world and the fact that nothing on the internet is private.  We were also introduced to two sites - Khan Academy and the iTunesU.

The most interesting part of Mr. Joseph's presentation was when he utilized the Google Map to show how the the internet is being used by the different educational institutions around the island.  He was able pinpoint their exact position and what device they were actually accessing the internet with.

Quite Interesting!  What were we reminded of?  NOTHING IS PRIVATE ON THE INTERNET!!!

ICT Workshop

The first ICT 20/20 Initiative Workshop began on 1st May, 2012 at the Multipurpose Cultural Centre.  We listened to brief addresses from Mrs. Paula Lee and Mrs. Jacintha Pringle before our official training sessions began.