Email Lesson Plan: Digital Literacy
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Email, and supports the standard of communicating and working with others using digital tools to share knowledge and convey ideas. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Prompt students to brainstorm different ways people communicate online. Encourage them to share any experiences they have had with email and other types of communication.
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Play the Email movie.
- Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it.
TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about email while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.
- Draw About It: Draw emoticons you could use in an email.
- Activity: Complete a chart about practicing digital etiquette.
- Talk About It: Identify and define abbreviations you might see or use in an email.
- Write About It: Write a friendly email to Moby.
More to Explore
Technology Unit: Continue to build understanding around digital literacy by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.
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