Outline lesson plans

Reflecting*

This is work-in-progress and will change over time. As part of the PTLLS course, we have to prepare and teach a 30 minute lesson to our peers. I have committed to teaching one of the following topics according to the voting, see top right of this page. I set out below my present thoughts on the aims and the outcomes of each of the topics.

Introducing Wikipedia editing

• Aim – To Introduce new editors to Wikipedia
• Outcomes
  Students will register on Wikipedia
  Introduction to students own talk page
  Edit own talk page
  A brief introduction to Wikipedia help, including the topic notice-boards and be given the opportunity to ask a question on a topic of their interest
  Some Wikipedia rules will be covered such as reliable sourcing. Some students may feel confident enough to edit an article but there will not be time in this lesson to see if such edits stick as others, usually more established Wikipedians, may remove such edits
• Multiple computers will be used so each student has a chance to edit at least their own talk page

Little Thetford local history

• Aim – to introduce students to local history research
• Outcomes
  More of a presentation than a lesson. Intend to cover brief local history of Little Thetford
  Use of research tools
  How to locate and summarise sources
  How to reject unattributable hearsay
• Powerpoint presentation and discussion

A blog and how to create one

• Aim – to introduce students to blogging
• Outcomes
  Understand what a blog is compared to a website
  Use blogger as one of many tools to create a blog
  Understand some of the pre-planning that may be useful
  Introduction to templates
  How to load an image
  Create a blog
• Multiple computers will be used so each student has a chance to create a blog

Landing on rwy 23 at Cambridge

Successful take-off and landing

• Aim – to provide the student with an introduction to flying
• Outcomes
  Using MS Flight simulator, each student will take-off from Cambridge then land
  Understand take-off and landing speeds using the airspeed indicator
  Importance of gentle control movement
  Importance of wings level
  Importance of visual cues: horizon (take-off) and runway aspect (landing)
  Instructor will control power, flaps and correct attitude as necessary
  
• Five minute introductory powerpoint presentation demonstrating the techniques
• Special notes: The lesson will be constrained as we will be using only one simulator. Each student will have a successful take-off and landing with some help from the instructor; no one will crash! For this reason, numbers will be limited to a maximum of four. Students not flying will be encouraged to take notes

* Photo © 2006 John McCullough