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Project Description
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Lesson Plan for 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.
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 as 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.
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Rubric Information
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| Rubric Title | Online Chat Role Play |
| Rubric ID | 1341017 |
| Teacher Name | Jenni Matthews |
| School | Caritas Chong Yuet Ming Secondary School – Hong Kong |
| Subject | Technology |
| Grade | Secondary 6 |
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Project Includes
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| Links | Online Chat PowerPoint
Lesson Plan
Online Chat
Online Chat Extended Writing |
| Standards | NT.K-12.2: Social, Ethical and Human Issues
NL-ENG.K-12.7: Evaluating Data
NL-ENG.K-12.10: Applying Non-English Perspectives
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| Teacher Tips | I work in Hong Kong as a teacher of oral English. Students worked in groups of four. There were two observers for the whole class plus one teacher who also acted as an observer and prompt when students faced difficulties or their discussion stalled. This was part of a unit about technology. Students went on to complete a piece of writing about the dangers of online chats. This lesson was designed to stimulate awareness of the different points of view possible on an issue. The lesson and subsequent writing were successful because students really did have something to speak and write about. I would make more space on the rubric for individual comments from each group member. I am happy to share the resources for this, a lesson plan, PowerPoint and all of the stationery for the exercise. The rubric clearly set out the goals of the observers and gave the students a clear idea about their goals for the discussion. |
