Using Web, Internet in Gathering Data

I.

II.

Learning Objectives
Use the web, internet to gather data
Relate the importance of the web/internet information searching
Display persistence in adopting new things/ideas
Subject Matter

A. Topic: Using Web, Internet in Gathering Data

Selection: What I think about the Internet
(Interview by Esther F. Celestre of Jolina
Magdangal, singer, actress and entrepreneur)
B. Reference: 1. PELC (Reading) III 5.7.2
2. Wikipedia Internet Encyclopedia
3. http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/welcome/internet/page1.htm
4. Health and Home, September
October 1999, Opinion Page, p.27
C. Materials: chart computer set with internet connections
Value Focus: Adaptability and Persistence
III.

Procedure

A. Preparatory Activity
1. Motivation
Ask: Who among you have seen a computer?
What can computers do nowadays?
Show a real set of computer or a picture of it and tell pupils how the lives of many
people have been changed by computers.
Ask: Would you like to visit beautiful places in the world without
plane and at no extra cost?

traveling by

Would you like to meet different people from different places,

your own homes?

right

How would you like your assignment to be answered and your

research
work to be discussed comprehensively without
visiting the library?
2. Unlocking of Difficulties

into

Direction:

Match the meanings and the words under Column A with the meanings under
Column B.
A

1. fans club
a. a technology that you can use
to
easily
communicate with
2. entrepreneur
anybody around the world
b. local and international
3. postal mail
connections using telephones
c.
partners in business
4. business associates
d.
mail sent through the post
office
5. long distance call
e.
a person engaging in business
f.
a group of people who idolize
an actor/actress
6. internet g. system chain of channels
7. network

h. giving and receiving of

information

B. Development of Activity
1. Presentation
a.

Motive Questions
What is the internet?
What can the internet do for you?
How do you move around the world through the internet?
How is a postal mail different from an e-mail?
What changes can the internet bring to the lives of people?

b. Say: Let us meet singer-actress Jolina Magdangal and find out how her life as a
student was conveniently changed through the use of
the internet.

WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE INTERNET

(An interview of Jolina Magdangal by Esther F. Celestre)
The internet is a technology that you can use to easily communicate with
anybody around the world. The internet is now called the network of networks so
that even those who are at home can connect with the internet. Everyone can have
access to massive information through the internet.
For me, the internet is a beautiful and exciting medium of communication that a
young person like me in this generation must learn, In the next few years, the youth
who have not been exposed to the internet might be kawawa. So I advise that they
use the internet, but moderately and with restrictions.
While Im a singer-actress, I attend school at AMA Computer Colleges. My
teachers are very considerate with my situation. They allow me not to physically
attend class sessions at school. Instead they send me my lessons and assignments
through the internet. In return, I send them my reports, assignments and projects
through the internet.
Through the internet, I learn many things. I can research on topics of my choice.
No hassle. I dont have to travel and be trapped in traffic.
As an actress, Ive known many friends through the internet, and I was able to
organize fans clubs in places like Bacolod, Batangas and in the United States. I
used to call friends through long distance which is very expensive. Often were not
able to talk because of conflicts in schedule.
As a young entrepreneur, through the internet, I have to say goodbye to postal
mail because napakabagal ito. It takes at least one week before I could receive
replies for my letters to friends and business associates. With the internet it takes
much less time to do that.
2. Analysis and Discussion
a. Answering the motive questions
b. Background Information:

1. The Internet
The internet is a huge collection of computers around the
world. These computers are all linked together creating a network that could make
people communicate with one another to give or share information.
If your computer is connected to the internet, it can connect to millions of other
computers, in many different parts of the world.
Ask pupils on what they can do with the use of the internet based on the selection
read. Prior to the previous knowledge of pupils on the use of the internet, elicit other
answers from them. Present their answers using the SEMANTIC WEB

You can read pages on

the World Wide Web.

You can send electronic

letters to people.

WHAT CAN YOU DO ON

THE INTERNET?

You can chat

with people.

You can play games with

people on the other side of the
world.

You can even buy things on

the Internet and have them
delivered to your house!

2. World Wide Web (www)

The World Wide Web (www) is a part of the internet. It is a collection of millions of
pages of information. This information can be about anything.

Present to pupils the discussion of www using the SPIDER MAP. What information
can you get on the internet about animals?
REPTILES

MAMMALS

lizards

dogs

crocodiles

cats

ANIMALS

INSECTS
grasshoppers
mosquitoes

AVES
birds
chickens
ducks

What information can you get on the internet about FOOD? PLANTS? FILMS? ANIME?
CARTOON CHARACTERS?
3.

The Hyperlinks
How can you get more information about a topic on the internet using the World
Wide Web? How can you move around it?
The pages on the World Wide Web are all linked so that you can move around
them.
The pages are linked together using HYPERLINKS.
Remember these three rules:
A hyperlink is usually colored in blue and underlined
(although they can be lots of different colors sometimes)
If you move your mouse over a hyperlink, it will change to the shape of a hand, like
this

if you click on a hyperlink, you will go to a different page.

With the massive information you can get on the internet, and without restriction
or control over its use, the internet has its disadvantages, too. Sometimes it can be
very dangerous for young people, especially with websites that contain malicious
graphic content such website may disturb young people by giving them ideas they
are not ready for.
3. Generalization
How can you get information on the internet?
(We can get information from the internet by visiting the pages of the World Wide
Web that contain millions of pages of information which are linked together through
the hyperlinks?)
C. Post Activity
1. Application
Have pairs or small groups of pupils access a web site to collect data or
information that can be used by the whole class. This is a good type of activity for
one or two computers in the classroom, because each group of students is only at
the computer for a short time.
Guide pupils to visit different topics of interests in the following subjects:
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
k.
l.
m.
n.
o.

What information can you get on these topics?

Education
Sports
Health
Online Games
Entertainment
Science and Technology
Medicines
Products and Services
Current Events
Movies / Films
Music
Foods
Weather

2. Enrichment Activity
Where can you locate the following information based from the topics mentioned
above? Write on the blank.
a. latest concert of Beyonce Knowles
b. Recipe for cooking spaghetti
c. basketball games
d. Ragnarok
e. War Rock
f.

Methods of Teaching Literature

g. Discovering products to whiten your skin

h. Britney Spears
i.

Voyager III space craft

j.

Lord of the Rings

k. Oscar Awards
l.

breakthrough in preventing cancer

m. new models of cell phones

n. Super Typhoon in Asia
o. Tomorrow by Lea Salong from the broadway Annie
p. Pizza Pie
q. Heal the World by Michael Jackson
r.

Harry Potter V

s. Football: Italy vs. Brazil

t. Educating the Filipino Youth

IV.

Evaluation
Guide pupils to surf the internet to collect information using the ADDRESS BAR by
keying in the web site address. The following web sites are recommended for pupilstarters. These sites are written by children on topics of interest among kids. Key in
any of the web addresses below.

3. Discover real life heroes from around the world. True stories about
been written by children. MY HERO
http://myhero.com/home.asp
4. Online kids newspaper with articles written by kids. KID NEWS
http://www.kidnews.com/
5. News stories written by and for kids. CHILDRENS EXPRESS
http://www.cenews.org/
6. Folk tales, Fables, Myths and Legends
http://www.lburkhart.com/elem/folktale.htm
7. Poetry for kids
http://www.nesbitt.com/poetry/poems.html

V.

heroes have

Assignment
Using the search bar on the internet, gather information on any of the following
topics and discuss your notes with your classmates. Choose one topic only.

1. Addiction of children to Counter-Strike internet gaming.

2. Dengue victims in the Philippines
3. Philippine National Heroes