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This lesson was developed by one of my graduate students, Heather Nace. She has written a lesson that takes advantage of a Firefox add-on, the dictionary tool-tip. Here is a link to Heather’s Blog, where the lesson first appeared.

Lesson Plan

Topic: Dictionary-tooltip add-on

Objective: Six graders will utilize
dictionary-tooltip add-on, for spelling list. The students will look up
spelling test words, to gain knowledge of definitions and to hear
correct pronunciation with the use of audio speakers.

Lesson:

The student will gather together in the computer lab, they have
prior knowledge and experience working with other add-ons from Firefox.
The students will be given a list of twenty spelling words; they will
circle ten words from the list of twenty. The students must use Quicknote to copy and paste five definitions, using the dictionary-tooltip add-on. Then they will use the dictionary-tooltip add-on to use the thesaurus to find a synonym for the remaining five spelling words and also copy that to Quicknote.
The students’ assignment will be to write ten complete sentences using
the ten words they looked up. They will be required to copy and paste
their definitions and thesaurus words into Google documents. This will
help them understand the meaning of the spelling words and it will be
easier to create sentences from them and increase their familiarity
with working in an online environment.

Assessing the objective:

Has the student successful been able to use the dictionary-tooltip
add-on component? Was the child able to see and hear the ten spelling
words they are looking up? Did the child create 10 meaningful sentences
using the ten spelling words? Ask the child if they learned something
new, using dictionary -tooltip add-on. End result, how did the child do on this week’s spelling test?

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