Lesson plan developed by Beth Thomson

Grade Level:  any, preferably students learning Spanish terminology for
the family
Subject:  Spanish

Purpose:  To learn the Spanish terminology for family members; to learn
how to use Microsoft Power Point; to learn how to use a scanner.

Resources:  IBM computer
                  Microsoft Power Point
                  scanner
                  pictures of each student's family

Procedure:
    Each student is asked to bring in several pictures of his family.
In class, students work to write captions in Spanish for each picture
describing the people in the picture and what they are doing.  Students
are taught to scan pictures onto disk.  Then, using MS Power Point in
the computer lab, each student constructs a slide show picture album.
Volunteers can share their work with the class.

Closure:
    This lesson will help students learn to use Power Point, which is
not used widely in schools.  It gives students a chance to do something
a little different from normal classwork, as well as a chance to show
their creativity and individual sense of style.  They will be learning
good sentence structure and new vocabulary at the same time.

Lesson developed by Beth Thomson

Subject:  Spanish
Grade level:  can vary depending on level students are at

Purpose:  to better Spanish vocabulary and improve usage of verb tenses

Objective:  to complete a variety of flashcard sets

Resources:    Apple IIE computers
                    Quickflash! software

Procedures:
    This lesson is an ongoing project which students can work on
throughout a designated time period.  The idea is for each student to
have his own Quickflash! disk which will keep track of which flashcard
sets have been completed.  The sets are categorized by verb tense or
lesson, with varying numbers of cards in each set.  The program shows a
card with a sentence in English, which needs to be translated by the
student.  The cards are shuffled and reshown until all have been
answered correctly.  Upon completion of each set by the due date, the
student gets a score of 100%.  The teacher has the ability to access the
each student's score for each set.  Scores can be erased and sets
repeated for memorization and familiarization purposes.

Closure:
    In this exercise, I hope to help students learn the verbs, tenses
and vocabulary quickly and solidly.  Repetition is extremely helpful and
important in learning a new language, and the flashcards provide this
function extremely well.

Lesson plan developed by Beth Thomson

Grade level:  Advanced, usually Junior/Senior year of high school
Subject:  Spanish

Purpose:  To practice speaking Spanish and to familiarize students even
more with the Internet and e-mail.

Resources:  computers with Internet access
                   student e-mail accounts

Procedure:
    In a computer lab with Internet hook-up, my students would meet
Spanish-speaking students from Spain, Mexico or any other
Spanish-speaking country.  If individual student e-mail accounts are not
possible, I would hope to at least be able to attain one account for the
whole class to use.  Each student would have a Spanish buddy to whom
they would write letters in Spanish (an English translation could also
be attached if the Spanish teacher wanted to improve her class's English
skills) over e-mail.  The Spanish buddies would respond in Spanish.

Closure:
    This project would benefit two classes, one English and one
Spanish.  The students would all be able to improve their language
skills, as well as learn about life in another culture from someone the
same age.

Lesson developed by Beth Thomson

Grade level:  Second, third or fourth year high school students
Subject:  Spanish

Purpose:  To improve Spanish writing skills

Resources:  IBM or Macintosh computers (preferably IBMs)
                  Microsoft Word or Clarisworks (again, preferably MS
Word)

Procedure:
    The assignment would be for students to work in the computer lab on
compositions on a variety of topics.  (The more advanced classes would
have longer assignments.)  Assignments would be collected and corrected,
but not graded, by the teacher.  Students have a few days to make
corrections on their papers and hand them back in.  Corrections are
checked and fixed if necessary.  The papers are then graded and returned
to the students.  Over the year, students will keep a log of their
common mistakes.  This assignment can be altered greatly depending upon
the level of the class.  I prefer to use MS Word for this project
because I feel this is an easier program to use Spanish punctuation than
Clarisworks, but it does not make a huge difference in the overall
effect.

Closure:
    This lesson helps students advance their writing skills, learn how
to make accents, tildas, and other Spanish punctuation, and acknowledge
their most common errors, working to correct them.