Web-Based Lesson Plan : The Seven New & Ancient Wonders of the World

Level

Form 4 (Intermediate Level)

Time

1 period (35 minutes).

Aims

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to
1)      To obtain specific information on a Website.
2)      To learn and practice new vocabulary related to the Seven New & Ancient Wonders of the World.

Technical Requirements

1)      One computer per group of 2-3 students.
2)      Internet connection.
3)      Web Browsers.
4)      Microsoft Word 2007
5)      Websites:         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lka9A7IRYz8
                        http://www.unmuseum.org/wonders.htm

Preparation

1)      Determine sites relevant to the Seven New & Ancient Wonders of the World.

2)      Select information of the site to prepare a worksheet.

Procedure

1)      Teacher asks students on their knowledge of The Seven New & Ancient wonders of the World.
2)      Teacher prompts students by giving clues on certain wonders.
3)      Teacher writes those Wonders mentioned by students on the board.
4)      Teacher asks students to provide brief descriptions of each Wonder stated.
5)      Teacher distributes the worksheet provided and asks them to answer what they can answer with the information on the board.
6)      Teacher informs that all the answers to the questions are available online. Teacher provides the selected sites to the students. Teacher asks them to fill in the remaining questions and cross-check on the questions that they have already answered.
7)      Teacher reminds students to note down any difficult vocabularies to be discussed later.
8)      Teacher discusses the activity with the students. The teacher explains any difficult vocabulary that they have come across.

Follow-up activity

1)      Teacher asks each student to prepare a short quiz of their own based on the facts that they have learned which weren’t asked in the worksheet provided and email it to each other to test each student’s knowledge.
2)      Teacher emails each student a list of each students’ email address.


Screen Shots

Worksheet 1

The Seven New Wonders of the World.

Name	Place	Period
Christ the Redeemer
		1460 - 1470
	Rome, Italy
The Taj Mahal
		220 B.C and 1368 – 1644 A.D
	Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Petra

The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World

Name	Place	Period	Interesting fact
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
	Modern Iraq		Only wonder whose archaeological remains cannot be verified
		432 BC
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
		2560 BC
	Halicarnassus (Modern Bodrum, Turkey)
The Colossus of Rhodes

The Aurora

An aurora (plural: auroras or aurorae) is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and are directed by the Earth's magnetic field into the atmosphere. Aurora is classified as diffuse or discrete aurora. Most aurorae occur in a band known as the auroral zone which is typically 3° to 6° in latitudinal extent and at all local times or longitudes. The auroral zone is typically 10° to 20° from the magnetic pole defined by the axis of the Earth's magnetic dipole. During a geomagnetic storm, the auroral zone will expand to lower latitudes. The diffuse aurora is a featureless glow in the sky which may not be visible to the naked eye even on a dark night and defines the extent of the auroral zone. The discrete aurora are sharply defined features within the diffuse aurora which vary in brightness from just barely visible to the naked eye to bright enough to read a newspaper at night. Discrete aurorae are usually observed only in the night sky because they are not as bright as the sunlit sky. Aurorae occur occasionally poleward of the auroral zone as diffuse patches or arcs (polar cap arcs) which are generally invisible to the naked eye.