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The basic concept of our ICT Integration Project is that the students are to play the role of Journalists. At the end of the 4 lesson program the class will compile a newspaper on natural disasters.

The students will have to research and complete several tasks along the way. They will first have to pick a natural disaster, brainstorm it (using Inspiration) and research it. They will then have to find/produce a photo of the issue and also decide on a headline for their article. They will then have to draft and finalise the text in the article. The final step will be putting the photo, headline and text together to make the completed article. The whole class will then compile their articles to make a newspaper.

This Inspiration brainstorm shows the basic concept of the project. [|Inspiration Doc.isf] 

The four lesson plans are as follows [|Natural Disasters- Lesson 1.doc]  [|Natural Disasters - Lesson 2.doc]  [|Natural Disasters- Lesson 3.doc]  [|Natural Disasters - Lesson 4.doc]

This program uses a range of ICTs as both teaching and learning tools. In Lesson 1 the teacher is showing a video clip on a projector, and students are researching using books, the internet and other resources available from the school library. In Lesson 2 the teacher is using the interactive whiteboard to show the steps to creating a newspaper article and the powerpoint document on how to create a good newspaper article. In Lesson 3 the students are using the internet to find pictures for their article, and in Lesson 4 the students are constructing their final article using Microsoft Word.