Unit Plan for ICT

Unit Plan for Language Projects   

Unit Author
Name	Phoon Kok Full, Lee Wan Shuan, Chong Siew Cheng
School
Unit Overview
Subject: English language
Year 5 : Intermediate
Theme : World Of Knowledge
Topic  :Places Around Us
Approximate Time Needed : Five 60-minutes lessons
Unit Specifications
Curriculum Specifications
Reading 3.8     Read and understand simple factual texts for main ideas, supporting details, sequence and cause effect. Writing 4.5 Construct simple and compound sentences with guidance independently. 4.8     Give accurate information when writing messages, instructions, simple reports and when filling out forms.
Objectives
1.      Produce a documentary on historical buildings in Kuching. 2       Locate information on the websites given in the web quest to design campaign poster on the local delicacies of Kuching.
Unit Evaluation
1.      Teacher and pupils brainstorm ideas on the places in Kuching and local food. 2.       Teacher provides pupils with evaluation rubrics on their project and discusses it with them. 3.      Teacher checks pupils’ products to check on their progress. Pupils and teacher brainstorm for more historical buildings in Kuching. Pupils use the checklist to check their progress in the project. Pupils also use the evaluation rubrics to help them. 4.      Pupils showcase their projects to the Travel Agencies. Teacher and the other pupils use the evaluation rubric to guide their project work.
Unit Details
Prerequisite Skills
Students know how to: 1.      Search the Internet. 2.      Download and save resources in folders 3.      Use MS Publisher. Project Scenario: Amazing Kuching Kuching is a historical yet modern city. As Miss Kuching 2000, you plan to attract Travel Agencies from Penisular Malaysia to promote Kuching as a new tourist attraction to both local and foreign tourists. Grasp Model Goal: To help promote Kuching as a new tourist attraction to both local and foreign tourists. Role: Miss Kuching 2000 Audience: Travel Agencies from Penisular Malaysia           Set of Activities: 1.       A guided city tour around Kuching. 2.       Introducing local delicacies Products: 1.       A video documentary on the historical building in Kuching 2.       A campaign poster on the local delicacies through a web quest
Instructional Procedures
Lesson 1 1.      Teacher asks pupils about the places they have been to during the school holidays. 2.      Pupils share their experiences about their visits during the holidays. 3.      Teacher shows pictures on some historical building in Kuching and discusses their importance and value to the students. Take home task: Pupils borrow books from the library and visit websites to read on the history of Kuching. Lesson 2 1.      Teacher asks question to students based on the readings. 2.      Students find resources from the Internet and save them in folders 3.      Teacher shows students how to use Movie Maker. Take home task: 1.   Pupils complete the documentary. Lesson 3 1.      Pupils make final preparation for their documentaries. Take home task: Pupils search and read about local delicacies from the Internet. Lesson 4 1.      Teacher shows pupils a web quest on the class blog (Teacher opens a class blog and designs a web quest before this lesson.) 2.      Pupils read the Introduction, Tasks and Process (es) to complete the task. 3.      Teacher reminds pupils to use the web site links provided to obtain information on Kuching delicacies. 4.      Pupils read and select information from the given web sites which are relevant to their task. 5.      Teacher reminds pupils to keep the information for Lesson 5. Take home task: Pupils take notes on the various delicacies from the given web sites. Lesson 5 1.      Pupils create and design a campaign poster on local delicacies of Kuching using MS Publisher. 2.      Pupils present their projects to the travel agencies. 3.      Pupils share their thoughts and feelings about Kuching and how to preserve our heritage.
Materials and Resources Required For Project
Printed Materials: text books, storybooks, reference materials, manuals Technology: computer, LCD, Internet URLs: (List of websites suitable for your students for project research)      1.      Sarawak Laksa  http://catherinesarawak.com/ 2.        Sarawak Laksa  http://ckgoplaces.blogspot.com/2007/09/kolo-mee-or-is-it-gon-lou-mee.html 3.       Kolo Mee   http://sparklette.net/food/jia-xiang-sarawak-kuching-kolo-mee/ 4.       Kolo Mee  http://ckgoplaces.blogspot.com/2007/09/kolo-mee-or-is-it-gon-lou-mee.html 5.       Kueh Chap  http://gohappytravel.blogspot.com/2008/11/kuching-hawker-food-kueh-chap_06.html 6.       Belacan Bee Hoon  http://lilomag.com/2010/07/20/the-famous-malaysian-food/ 7.        Hopoh Lui Cha   http://silverdolly.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post.html 8.       History of Kuching   http://www.kuching-hotels.com/history.htm 9.       History of Kuching  http://pewi672.tripod.com/kgweb/02kgfactf.html 10.   historical buildings-  http://www.isarawak.com.my/kuching/ts2.html 11.   white cat  http://www.fun-travel-malaysia.com/Sarawak-Travel.html 12.   Cultural village http://colinjong.com/2009/06/08/sarawak-cultural-village-1-orang-ulus-music-and-costume/ 13.   Fort margherita  http://allmalaysia.info/news/story.asp?file=/2004/10/30/state/9225323&sec=mi_sarawak 14.   Court house http://skjongphotography.blogspot.com/2009/12/building-around-kuching.html 1. www.sounddogs.com 2. www.freeplaymusic.com 3.  BLOG URL