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Lesson Plan for Teachers

 Hobby course lesson 5 

This lesson involves students making use of tools to search for videos to watch, and analysing and identifying characteristics of successful tutorial videos.

Task 1: Choosing videos to watch (Step 1) 

Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to help students to be able to use effective search techniques to search for videos 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • Explain that the focus of the lesson is on searching videos about a hobby to watch 

  • Classroom survey: How students choose videos to watch (https://forms.gle/RTtMdEeLvMiguKti6) 

  • Ask students to discuss search engines they use to search for videos  

  • Ask students to search for the followings: 

  • How to make a catapult (with three different materials). All videos must include closed captions (cc) and the length of each vide must be no more than four minutes 

  • How to make a catapult with popsicle sticks from three different websites 

  • Ask for some volunteers to share how they search for the videos 

  • Show them how to search using Google’s video search (see handout) 

Handouts: How to search for videos (https://3d527928-cc79-4ee7-9c10-b738b111b2fd.filesusr.com/ugd/c7cbef_c07362a383c54c43803712a2e1831ed5.pdf) 

Answers/models/note:  

Task 2: Creating criteria for successful tutorial videos (Step 2) 

Purpose: This activity aims to support students in having criteria for choosing model videos about their hobby 

Background information:  

Activity stages 

  • Show the survey results to students  

  • In breakout rooms, students discuss how to elicit the results to create criteria for successful videos about a hobby 

  • Give students 10-15 minutes to find their favourite tutorial videos about their hobby. Students are encouraged to pay attention to what they think make the videos become their favourite/successful tutorial videos.  

  • Ask students to elicit characteristics of successful tutorial videos from the survey results and from their favourite videos to create a list of criteria for successful tutorial videos. 

  • Ask students to evaluate the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BATWfPjr3MI) based on their criteria  

  • Ask for some volunteers to explain how the video meets the criteria (with some explanations)  

Handouts: - 

Answers/models/note:  

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