Lesson plans

This page is meant to serve as a focal point for collecting and discussing information, experiences, and documents related to lesson plans involving the use of XOs and/or Sugar.

To-Do

• Let people know this page exists;-)
• Build list of people who are interested in this topic.
• Collect existing materials from different deployments (e.g. Nepal, Nosy Komba, Australia, Haiti, ...)
• Consider building a common template and maybe also a platform for sharing lesson plans (Note: Claudia Urrea is working on similar efforts)

Resources

Please use this space to add relevant resources and links to existing resources.

• OLPC AU newsletter with lesson ideas
• teacher-generated lessons, incl. 'Top Ten XO Lessons', from OLPC AU
• lessons submitted by teachers #1, from OLPC AU (use login as guest)
• lessons submitted by teachers #1, from OLPC AU (use login as guest)
• Plan Ceibal's Canal Ceibal videos and a partially (?) annotated index of these videos (in Spanish)
• Reef and Rainforest Encyclopaedia/ Wiki
• Sdenka Salas' famous "The XO Laptop in the Classroom"
• extensive collection of materials from Latin American projects (in Spanish)
• OLE Nepal's Grade 5 Science support materials

Template

Please use this space to add existing templates or other relevant information.

Suggestion by Tracy

• A title
• Purpose for the activity (outcomes)
• Subject Areas (multi select: English/ Literacy; Mathematics/ Numeracy; Science and Technology; History/ Social Sciences; The Arts; Health/Personal Development; Languages)
• Age Ranges (multi select: 5 years and younger, 6-8 years, 9-11 years, 12 years +)
• XO Activities used
• The lesson itself
• Contributed by

Reader contributions of:

• Adaptations of the lesson
• A space for teachers who have taught the lesson to comment on the experience (not sure what to call it). They could share what went well, what didn't go well, how the students responded, tech tips, photos or videos of the lesson, etc... (I think sharing the real-life experience of teaching these lessons would be more beneficial than the plan itself)

Template used by OLPC Jamaica

• Theme
• Sub-Theme
• Date
• Age Group

Circle Time:

• Activity Title
• Duration
• Development objectives
• Concepts / Content
• Materials
• Introduction

Guided Learning:

• Activity #1 (Description)
• Objectives
• Materials needed

Creative Activity (Guided Learning)

• Activity
• Objective
• Materials

Reflections Evaluations

• Text

Template used in the Reef and Rainforest Wiki

• Class teacher
• Name of school
• Year
• Lesson Title
• Date
• Learning Outcomes: By the end of this lesson, learners should be able to
• Introduction
• Teacher activities
• Learner activities
• Conclusion
• Learner evaluation

(source)

Other notes

• a "in field" / "in class" / "both" field (Dominik)
• works on XO / SoaS (Dominik)
• include other types of teaching aids not only a standarized lesson plan form, e.g. - lessons tips: one/two sentences + a pic (i.ex. a composition in physics) (Dominik)
• not ‘overdoing’ a template if the goal is to attract user-generated content (Tracy)
• not prescribtion lesson plans, rather focus on empowering and inspiring (Tracy, Claudia)

Platform

Please use this space to add your thoughts, ideas, comments, questions, etc. about a platform to facilitate the process of sharing lessons plans and other materials.