Musical Computer Lesson Plan
Each student starts writing on their computer until the music stops. Students then move to the next computer. Students read and than add to the started story on that computer.
Activity
1. Explain to your students that they will be writing a story on a computer while playing the equivalent of "Musical Chairs".
2. Ask your students now to sit at a computer and open a word processing program.
3. Have them open a new file.
4. Explain that they are not to start typing until the music starts. Now start the music (This can be anything that you choose).
5. Once your students have typed for a reasonable amount of time, stop the music. Now ask your students to move to the computer next to them and begin to continue the story which the previous student started.
6. Start the music again. Do this until all the students have been on every computer at least once.
7. Once the students have been on every computer at least once, have them go back to the computer that they originally started with.
8. Inform them that when you are writing a story or any other document, grammar and spelling is very important and they will need to read the story and fix any mistakes that they can find. If needed, have them ask you for help.
9. Have each story saved as ".............. - musical story".
10 Print out the finished stories and have the students take turns in reading theirs to the class. This is normally quite fun as they can be very wierd at times.
Once the students have finished their story, have them print their story out and read it to the class
Materials
Computer, word processing program, printer.
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