Internet and E-mail Introduction

Materials:

• Students will need a computer with an Internet connection.

Optional but important: down the road we will need these two things. Having them now will make things much smoother.

• Students should have an individual log-in for their computer.
• Students should haveMicrosoft Entourage on their computer.

Objective:

• Students will learn to use the internet for researching scientific information.
• Students will learn how e-mail works, to send and recieve e-mail, and to add attachments to e-mail.

Alaska Standards:

• SCI C-5 Students should understand that sharing scientific discoveries is important to influencing individuals and society and in advancing scientific knowledge;
• SCI D-6 Students should act upon reasoned decisions and evaluate the effectiveness of the action.

Anticipatory Set: Students will be given the opportunity to personalize the computer they are working on by creating their own username and password. This will give the students the following advantages:

• All their programs and files will be password protected from other students. (Not from school staff! Information, e-mails, pictures, and all other files on a school computer will be accessed periodically by district teachers and administrators. Your e-mail is not private! If you want private mail write it down, put it in an envelope, and mail it through the post office. It is for your safety and the saftey of other students that we monitor what our computes are being used for!)
• They will be able to set their own desktop pictures (pictures must follow the district dress code or they will lose the privelage of changing the pictures.)
• Internet favorites, e-mail settings, and personalized settings are all saved for students.

(The following directions are for Mac's running OS X if you need help with a different machine give us a call after class)

Students will go to system preferences (the light switch icon) and

Teacher Input: The teacher will do a search on three differnet sites using three different browsers with different boolean statements and using quotes. Use the following searches:

Go to http://google.com

type in:

1. Moose
2. How to hunt a moose
   1. Use askjeeves.com for the next one.
3. How do I hunt a moose?
4. Alaska Department of Fish and Game
5. Go back to http://google.com and point out the tabs that say: image, group, news, froogle searches.
6. Students will try to figure out what the differences are among image, group, news, froogle searches.
7. Google, (images), moose.
8. Google, (groups), moose
9. Google, (news) moose
10. Google, (froogle) moose

Teacher will explain the differences among altavista (both a search engine and directory), google, askjeeves (search engines), and yahoo (a directory).

• Goto Google, show the students how to use the "+" and "-" keys while searching.
• Search "yukon"+"fishing" (these sites contain the words yukon and fising somwhere on the page.)
• Then search "yukon"-"fishing" (these sites contain the word yukon but not the word fishing.
• Finally search "yukon"-"fishing"-"Canada" (these sites contain the word yukon but not fishing or Canada.)

Teacher Modeling: The teacher will now model the use of an e-mail client and what it can do. The teacher will show the following in Microsoft Entourage:

• set up their e-mail account
• schedule thier sending and recieving of mail
• adding folders for saving mail
• setting up their address book
• setting up their calendar
• setting up tasks

Check for Understanding: Students will set up their own e-mail accounts and receive an e-mail from the instructor. (The e-mail will include some important addresses and some important dates.

Guided Practice: Students will be guided through putting the important e-mail addresses in their address book and their important dates on the calendar.

Closure: Students will send one person from another site an e-mail and then complete the independent practice.

(15 minutes before or after the lesson)

Independent Practice: Students will use the web site and any other resources they can find to learn about their instructor. Students will develop a list of 10 facts about Mr. Marley.

Duration:

30 minutes + 10-15 for Independent Practice (Could be longer if taken for homework).