Rikki-Tikki Research
Charlotte Driver
Beaufort Elementary
3/22/02
Subjects: Reading, Science, Technology
Description: The students will be able to perform a search on
mongooses on Internet Explorer and answer research questions.
Time: Approximately 30-45 minutes
SCOS Goals and Objectives:
Language Arts:
1.05 Use word reference materials (e.g., glossary, dictionary,
thesaurus) to identify and comprehend unknown words.
2.02 Interact with the text before, during, and after reading,
listening, and viewing
2.03 Read a variety of texts
3.05 Integrate information from two or more sources to expand
understanding of text.
3.06 Conduct research for assigned projects or self-selected
projects (with assistance) from a variety of sources through the use
of technological and informal tools (e.g., print and non-print
texts, artifacts, people, libraries, databases, computer networks).
4.10 Use technology as a tool to gather, organize, and present
information.
Science:
1.01 Relate structural characteristics and behavior of a variety of
animals to the environment in which they are typically found.
1.02 Determine animal behaviors and body structures that have
specific growth and survival functions in a particular habitat.
1.03 Evaluate living and nonliving things that affect animal life:
- Other animals.
- Plants.
- Climate.
- Water.
- Air.
- Location.
Technology:
1.3 Identify violations of the Copyright Law.
1.5 Identify the need for Acceptable Use Policies
2.10 Use search strategies to locate information electronically.
3.2 Search and sort prepared databases for information to use in
classroom projects.
3.5 Evaluate information found via telecommunications for content
and usefulness.
Teacher’s Goals and Objectives: Students will be able to
perform a search on the Internet to obtain information on certain
subjects, in this case, the search will be concentrated on the
mongoose.
Materials/ Resources Needed:
- Student computers with Internet access
- Microsoft Internet
Explorer,
- search engine such as
Yahooligans (www.yahooligans.com),
- teacher made questions to focus the search.
Pre-Activities:
- The students will read the story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, both silently and orally.
- Through an oral discussion of the story, many of the odd behaviors of
the mongoose will be brought to the students attention. This
discussion will develop a sense of curiosity in the students and leave
many questions unanswered.
- Teacher
discusses Copyright Law need the need for Acceptable Use
Policies.
Activities:
- The teacher will assist the students as a whole group on the procedures of using the
Internet.
- The tool bar and it’s uses are
also pointed out, such as the back and forward button.
- The students will enter in ‘mongoose’
as the topic of their search and the search will show 4
different web sites.
- Class evaluates
information found on the Internet for content and usefulness.
- Web sites are also explained and the students will begin to search for the
information needed to complete this assignment.
- After all of the questions are answered, the students can search on any animal they wish in the same format.
Closure: The students will turn in a completed paper with the questions answered from the
Internet search on mongooses. This will prompt a narrative report
from the students in the next class discussions.
Assessment:
- Students observed appropriate AUP
and copyright behavior while using the Internet.
- Students were about to use search
strategies successfully to find their information.
- Students evaluated web sites for
appropriateness and content using a rubric.
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