Lesson Plan: Online Chat discussion.
Role-play of members of interest groups
Purpose: This lesson has been designed to give students the
opportunity to role-play different members of interest groups.
Lead up to the lesson: Students were surveyed (with a show of
hands) as to who uses Internet chat rooms and IM (internet
messaging)
Lesson relevance: This indicated the relevance of the issue to
these students.
Lead up to this lesson:
Whole class discussion about usage of Internet chat and the
dangers of visiting online chat rooms.
Students have viewed sections of power points created for
parents and teachers as well as web sites that discussed online
chat dangers and discussed individual case studies.
Homework lead up: Students were assigned homework in
which they were asked to define online chat rooms and outline
the benefits and dangers of online chat rooms.
Materials required:
1. Notecards for each role.
2. Headbands for each role
3. Rubrics one per group.
This lesson the teacher will do the following:
Procedure:
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2-3 minutes:
Explain the purpose and focus of the lesson:
5 minutes:
Introduce the roles to be played. Issue head
bands. ( teacher, teenager, parent, school
counselor)
3 minutes:
Brief students as to the assessment rubric and
assign students to take the role of student
observers.
2minutes
Ask students to divide into groups of four. (30
students = 7 groups of 4 with two observers)
1 minute
Ask students to put on their headbands.
Ask students to assume their roles and to write
notes based on their roles. Remind them to
speak in the first person “I”
Eg: “I am Miss Chan, the school counselor)
Ask students to begin their discussion.
5-10 minutes
Move between groups listening to discussions.
Call the whole class to a stop if there are
problems in understanding the demands of the
lesson.
3-4 minutes
At end of discussion, ask the observers which
groups worked well.
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5-6 minutes
Ask for a group to demonstrate their role-play
to the rest of the class.
2-3 minutes
Ask for comments from the class about how the
demonstration group performed.
3-4 minutes
Round up the lesson with comments from
students.
3 minutes
Ask student observers to collect comments from
students in the groups they have observed.
3 minutes
Remind students about the extended writing
task they will write on this topic.
Say goodbye for the day.
Students will: participate in a role-play discussion as a member
of an interest group. They will role-play either a teacher,
parent, counselor or teenager.
Two students will act ads student observers moving between
the groups and completing a rubric as to the success of the
discussion.
At least one group will perform their role-play to the rest of the
group.
Evaluation: This will take place from students in the groups
who will have an opportunity to make comments verbally and in
writing.