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Sending E-Mail (1)

Estimated time: 45 minutes Standards Alignment Common Core: Grade 1: RL1, RI1, RI4, RI10, RF4a, W5, W8, L6 NETS-S: 6a Key Vocabulary Message: Spoken or written information that is sent from one person to another. E-Mail: A kind of message you write and send on a computer Internet: an electronic system that connects billions of people using computers, phones, or other devices, and allows them to communicate with one another Essential Question

How do you connect with others through e-mail?


Lesson Overview Students explore how they can use e-mail to communicate with real people within their schools, families, and communities. After discussing the different ways they can send messages to other people, students observe an e-mail exchange between teachers on paper. Learning Objectives Students will... understand that the Internet provides a means of communicating with real people. describe how e-mail messages are sent and received. Materials Computer Promethean Board PowerPoint: Sending E-Mail Internet Student Handout: E-Mails in Print (one per student) Pencils

Introduction Media specialist will ask students the following questions: What is a message? o Spoken or written information that is sent from one person to another Who do you send messages? o Answers will vary Who sends you messages? o Answers will vary Media specialist will encourage students to think about relatives who may live far away as well as friends from school that they sometimes talk to when they are at home. What type of messages do you send people? o Answers will vary Students may mention making plans, sharing news, talking about homework, or wishing someone a happy birthday. What are some ways that you send and receive messages? o Sample responses: Written notes passed by hand Written letters sent through the mail Telephone calls Cell phone calls Text messages Have you heard of e-mail?

Media specialist will ask students to define the term e-mail. She will inform the students that they can use e-mail to also send and receive messages. The media specialist will ask students the following question: Do you or members of your family have an e-mail account? Teach 1 Sending a Message The media specialist will discuss the idea that an e-mail is a message that travels through the Internet. It travels from the computer of the person who sends it to the computer of the person who receives it.

Media specialist will show students two sample e-mails (one sent/one received). Teach 2 Traveling the Internet Media specialist will distribute the E-mails in Print Handout, which shows an email exchange between two teachers. Students will read aloud the exchange between the two teachers. The media specialist will ask the following questions: Which message was sent first? o She will point out to students that when they view a series of e-mail messages, the most recent e-mail message appears first, while the first message is at the bottom. Who sent the third message? Who received it? o Media specialist will direct students attention to the different elements of the message headings, which show who sent the message, who received it, when it was sent, and the subject. She will also help them see that Mr. Gray sent the third e-mail and Ms. Brown received it.

Students will watch media specialist type a brief e-mail message to a colleague. Assessment Media specialist will ask students to turn the E-mail in Print Handout over. She will explain to them that the questions on back of the handout will be used to assess their understanding of the lesson objectives. Students will complete the assessment. Closing Wrap-up Media specialist will ask the following questions: What is an e-mail? o A message you write and send on a computer What happens when you send an email? o It travels from the computer of the person who sends it to the computer of the person who receives it.

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