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Home Task Student Resources Teacher Resources Teacher's Info Teacher's Information This task encourages students to explore how women’s rights have changed over the centuries and investigate Ancient Egyptian society. This topic engages the students with a global topic that has been an issue in our past and can still be considered one in our current society. It applies to their everyday life and encourages them to look at a normal situation in a different light. By allowing students to investigate in groups you are encouraging students to organise themselves into working groups and to improve their communication skills.
 * Task **

This schedule can be changed to fit the teacher’s needs and available resources.
 * Teaching Information **
 * Suggested Lesson Schedule**
 * Day 1:** Start the lesson with an introduction video on Ancient Egyptian society. Put people into groups of 4 people to discuss what they know about ancient Egyptian society. Use inspiration in groups to make brain storms.
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** Smartboard, video, laptops that have inspiration on them
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) Introduce the topic to the students via showing this video on the smartboard. Also have this video loaded to the assignment website so students can access it at a later date. If you would like you can also show this video to the class to give them a broader understand of the topic before they begin this task.
 * 2) After showing the video put students into groups of four (either let them choose or yourself)
 * 3) Hand out one laptop per group and instruct them to use the program Inspiration (look at resources for further information) to create a mind map about what they know about Ancient Egyptian society.
 * What needs to be done before class:**
 * 1) Set up a class email account. This email can be used to set up both a yola and youtube account. Students will also be able to email the teacher questions they have about the assignment outside of class time (it is the teacher’s choice to accept student emails).
 * 2) Create a yola website for this assignment. Include the assignment brief and useful resources for the students.
 * 3) Create a youtube account. This is where students will present their final product.


 * Day 2:** Start in classroom – discuss the assignment to the class. Give examples of the women (5 options) and basic info on their lives (5 minutes max). Take them to computers (or bring laptops to the classroom) and let students start resources.
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** laptops with internet connection, powerpoint presentation (this is to include the 5 different women with their basic information, pictures), website must be up and running and shown to the students on how to access it. Smartboard and interactive website.
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) Start the lesson by discussing what people discovered in the previous lesson about Ancient Egyptian society.
 * 2) Introduce the assignment to the students. Explain where they can find the assignment brief online and what the final product will be.
 * 3) Give a small presentation on the five women from Ancient Egypt that the students will be choosing from.
 * 4) Allow students five minutes in their groups to discuss who they will be focusing on.
 * 5) Let students discuss what roles they will be doing in the group and how best to approach this assignment.
 * 6) Take the students to a computer lab or bring laptops into the class. Allow students to begin researching the topic.
 * 7) Allow students to come up in groups to use the smartboard to do the interactive activities.


 * Day 3:** Continue research (introduce books)
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** laptops with internet connection, selection of books from the library
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) Students are to continue doing their research for the assignment through the use of books and internet resources.


 * Day 4:** A lesson on how to make videos. Show the students how to use the camera infront of the class andthen show a video on how to edit videos on window live movie maker), let children use video camera and upload and edit (5 minutes with camera). Remind students to bring props next week.
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** smartboard, video on how to use windows video maker, video cameras, laptops
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) Start the lesson explain to the students that they will be required to be using a video camera and that they will be learning how to use one.
 * 2) Demonstrate to the class on how to use the certain video camera they will be using
 * 3) Show this video about how to edit the video on windows movie maker.
 * 4) From here get the students to form their groups and take a short video to upload on to the computer to edit.
 * 5) For the last 15 minutes allow students to discuss what they will be doing in their video. Remind them to bring props for their video.


 * Day 5:** start making video
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** video cameras, laptops so students can upload their work at the end of the day
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) Students will spend the day videoing. Set rules on what is allowed in your classroom and the school.
 * 2) In the last 10 minutes bring students into the classroom so they can upload the videos they took today.


 * Day 6:** start making video
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** video cameras, laptops
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) Students continue to make their video.
 * 2) Students can start editing the video if they have finished recording.
 * 3) Remind students to upload all their videos onto the computer.


 * Day 7:** Start putting presentation together (editing video and writing up a blurb). Invite students to start uploading
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** laptops
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) Show the class an example of what a blurb is and explain that they must write a blurb to accompany their video.
 * 2) If students finish before the class is finished you can upload their video to youtube.
 * 3) The students who’s video has been upload are to write a reflective piece on the assignment about what they have learnt from this task.


 * Day 8:** Students write a reflective piece on the assignment while groups upload assignments
 * Lesson Time:** 1 hour
 * Resources:** laptops
 * Lesson Content:**
 * 1) All students videos should be finished so start the students off by writing their reflective piece of writing.
 * 2) While students are writing you go from group to group and upload their videos to youtube.

Afterwards: Upload all the videos and blurbs to the yola account so students can have access to them at a later date. This will allow parents and other members of the community see the students work. It can also be used as a future resource for other teachers and an example if you wish to do the assignment again for another class.

Free Techology for Teachers - This site gives a variety of free technologies avalible for teachers to use in the classroom.
 * Teacher Resources **

Authentic eLearning - This site is Jan Herrington’s website about authentic eLearning. It gives useful examples, links to sites and information on what authentic tasks are.

Powerpoint Lesson Plans - Examples of a variety of different powerpoints ranging in all primary year groups.

Interactive games about Egypt - This site has a variety of games for the smartboard for students to use and explore.

How to use Windows Movie Maker - This youtube video will show students how to edit the videos they have created using windows technology. Upload this to the yola site for students to access at they will.

Inspiration - Inspiration is a brainstorming computer program.It is easy to use and helps students express ideas clearly.

Yola - A website creating page.

Hotmail - You can create an email account which is easy to use.

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