Module Assignment for Module 1

KG/WALAGAMBA VIDYALAYA

MODULE 1

Module assignment 1.1

Date         :           29/05/2011

Grade      :           10

Subject    :           History

Unit         :           1

Lesson    :           Archeological Sources of Sri Lankan History 

Time        :           80 minutes

Objective:           To identify the Archeological sources of Sri Lankan History 

Special objectives      :

           

·         Define what the archeological sources of the History are

·         Classify the archeological sources

·         Give examples on each source

·         Explain how they contribute to learn history

·         Appreciate the value of the sources to verify the historical facts

Introduction              :          

History is depended on sources. Each country has a history. Sri Lanka also has a great history.  It depends on historical sources. We can categorize them as two main aspects. They are,

Ø       Literary sources

Ø          Archeological sources

In this lesson we are mainly considering on archeological sources. There are 42 students in the class room. Although their computer knowledge is high, they are poor in searching information on the internet due to searching difficulties.

Engagement               :   

1. 1.      Group students for four teams
2. 2.      Give the sub topics of archeological sources
3. 3.      Ask them to explore the facts
4. 4.      Present the facts to the class

1st Group	Inscriptions
2nd Group	Coins
3rd Group	Religious Ruins
4th Group	Non Religious Ruins

           

Teacher explains by using text books, Magazines, News Papers students can find some useful information on it.  Teacher explains but her are some questions occur when using these methods.

• The Magazines, Text books and News Papers are not up-dated.
• The information that can be collected from these materials is limited.
• Need have a scanner to add images to the document that we make on the computer.

Teacher tells students that we can use the internet to find relevant information and other materials like Images, Audios, and Videos act… on the internet. To find information on the internet we need understand the terms of what is Internet, what is a Browser and what is a search Engine.

What is Internet and why we use the Internet      :

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

How to get start to find relevant information on to the Internet

Go to START button and click on Google Chrome or Go to Desktop and click on the Shortcut for Google Chrome            

Teacher briefly explains the browser window and gives the definition to what is a browser and a search engine is.

Web browser

                                   

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to related resources.

The major web browsers are,

Ex. Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera

A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained only by human editors, search engines also maintain real-time information by running an algorithm on a web crawler.

Ex. http://www.google.com, http://www.Yahoo.com, http://www.AltaVista.com, http://www.msn.com

Among this teacher can recommend http://www.google.com because it gives more hits, it has best validity as well as it is a user friendly search engine.

When searching the main topic you will get more hits. When you are searching sub topics the hits will be reduced.

Techniques of advance Searching

When you are seeking results for Archeological History you will get more hits.  To get the appropriate result you can use Includes and Excludes.

Your search by using a plus sign (+) to combine search terms. The sign will instruct a search engine to only return web pages that feature both keywords.  Be sure to place the sign directly before your keyword or phrase without leaving a space.

Ex. Archeological History in Sri Lanka +coins

Here you can find out information about both topics.

Limit your search by using a minus sign (-) to exclude a concept, issue or person.  Place the sign directly before the keyword or phrase you want to exclude without leaving a space.  The search engine will return pages that do not feature the specified word, name or phrase.

Following the method you can find out information about Archeological History of Sri Lanka except coins.

Ex. Archeological History Sri Lanka - coins

Ex                    :             Final results of ‘Archeological Sources of Sri LankanHistory’.

Topic	Google	Yahoo	MSN
History of Sri Lanka	81,200,000	14,800,000	14,100,000
Archaeological history of Sri Lanka	2,730,000	7,310,000	7,350,000

Exploration    :          

Ask students to find relevant information within groups through the web sites. And also have to include the relevant pictures. For this, go to the web site and type the topic on the search bar and click on the images on the left side. After getting the pictures keep the curser on the image and click on the right button and select ‘copy’. Then the image will be copied and paste it on the appropriate place.

If not you can go to the site and click on the Print Screen and paste it on your document as a screen shot.

Ex :                 

After finding the images, you can save it in ‘My Document, My Pictures ‘.

How we save a picture:

Select the Image and click on the right button and go to the place where you need to save it

Ex: Go to My Pictures in My Documents and paste the picture by clicking the right button.  And save it in your folder.

Explanation    :         

Present the findings by using word document to the class group wise. You can use Images and provided details where you have saved in my documents and My Pictures.

Elaboration    :         

After presented the findings each group has to give their views on other groups’ topics. Finally teacher gives her ideas and facts to summarize the whole lesson.

Evaluation      :         

By asking questions below

1.      What are the archeological sources of the History?

2.      Classify the archeological sources

3.      Give examples on each source

4.      How they contribute to learn history in brief?

For further information you can go through following links-

·         www.lankalibrary.com/arch.html

·         http://www.lankalibrary.com/

·         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sri_Lanka

These websites are given to students to refer for getting additional information. Teacher has gone through these websites and has come conclusions of,

·         The information is correct and up-to-date

·         The author of the website is known