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Lesson 1 - Introducing the Pet theme
Pre-reading: Students brainstorm types of pets on butcher paper Read Aloud "Children Make Terrible Pets" by Peter Brown Discussion based on brainstorm and book: " What make a good pet?" -
Lesson 2 - Recognizing Advertising on Websites
Introduce Pet Rocks Learn:
- 2 types of of online advertising (banner & sponsorship)
- How to recognize them
- What to do when you see them Practice together - recognizing online advertising Evaluate - highlight ads -
Lesson 3 - Ads in Videos
Review - previous week's lesson on banner and sponsorship ads & why there are ads on the internet Learn:
- 2 types of of online advertising (video ad & pop u)
- How to recognize them
- What you should do (ignore, click x to close, skip, do not click) Practice together - watch video -
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Lessons 4 & 5 - "Pet Rock Ad" Final Project
Introduce Pet Rock Ad project Description of project - Students will research a chosen type of rock, take notes, and create a banner ad to sell their rock as a pet. Learn:
- Digital Content Portal no ad resources (World Book Kids, Searchasaurous)
- How to search for rocks and minerals
- How to fill in note taking wksheet (need to create) Note - Ideally they would do the projec with web 2.0 tools but if there are not enough computers they can draw it on paper and used on a bulletin board.
