Goals: To build student vocabulary skills and context comprehension skills
Objectives Students will be able:
To use an internet dictionary to produce a glossary of words related to a particular subject area being studied.
Choose the correct meaning of the word for their glossary, from a list given on the internet dictionary, based on it's relationship to the subject matter being discussed.
Make a spreadsheet with glossary words which are then put in alphabetical order.
Materials Needed:
Computer with internet access
A list of words needed to complete glossary.
Student Page with links to dictionary sites.
Strategies:
Teacher models technology on overhead projector, which is connected to the internet.
A step by step guide for how to get on to the web and how to copy and paste the definitions into a word processing document.
Tech Standards Addressed:
(I) Use editing tools (cut, paste, spell check, copy, undo, etc) in word processing applications.
(I/M) alphabetize word banks & definitions in Spreadsheet.
Subject Area Standards Addressed:
Reading Performance Standards:
1.0. WORD ANALYSIS, FLUENCY, AND SYSTEMATIC VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT:
Students use their knowledge of word origins and word relationships,
as well as
historical and literary context clues, both to determine the meaning
of specialized
vocabulary and to understand the precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate
words.
1.3. use word meanings within the appropriate context and be able to verify those meanings by definition...
New Vocabulary:
Glossary, alphabetize, copy, paste, internet, word processing, document, spread sheet, split screen and work station (plus vocabulary words to be used)
Pre-Computer Lab Activities:
1. Class discussion of glossary, how it works and what it should look like, students will use text books to see how a glossary is put together.
2. Class discussion of exactly how to alphabetize and why it's a useful skill.
3. Teacher will have book marked and/or set up lesson using web site for student use.
Procedure:
Note: Teacher will walk through the entire lesson with students, using the overhead projector to model procedure.
1. Students will get into their pairs, one pair per computer workstation.
2. One student partner will open the Glossary Template
3. Student will open this folder and then rename it "Student's Name Glossary". Next they will save this document into their personal folder.
4. Students will then go to Dictionary Page and open to one of the preselected dictionaries.
5. Students will open a spread sheet document.
6.Teacher will then model how to split the screen to use both their spread sheet and net dictionary.
7. Teacher will then model how to copy and paste from the web site to the spread sheet.
8. Students will each take a turn copying and pasting one word from their glossary on to the spread sheet.
9. When students have completed one page of the glossary, they will then save it.
10. Next they will highlight it and then go to the top of the screen , to the area, marked calculate. The students will scroll down calculate to sort and click on sort. They will see the word range, which should list all the cells highlighted and then click O.K.
This will allow students to alphabetize both the definitions and the words.