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  9th Grade Civics  Teacher: Mr. Hideto Takagi
School: Nanbu Junior High School,
Noda City, Chiba Prefecture
Use of IT in Class
Place ■Regular classroom □Computer room □Special classroom □Gymnasium
□Athletic Field □Outdoors □Others〔 〕
Type of Lesson ■Class □Group □Pair/Individual □Follow-up □Others〔 〕
Phase ■Introduction □Development □Conclusion □Others〔 〕
Main user of IT ■Teacher □Student □Others〔 〕
Objectives □To introduce the topic ■To motivate students ■As illustrative material used by the teacher □As illustrative material used by the student □To master through repetition □To present a model □To recollect past experiences □To compare □To examine what has been done/studied □To provide second-hand experience □Others〔 〕
Equipment ■Computer ■Projector □Screen □Electronic Whiteboard □Visual Presenter □Digital Camera □Video Player ■Internet □Digital Contents □CD-ROM □Speakers □Others〔 〕

Point of Interest
To show live feed from around the world broadcast through cameras on the Internet so that students can recognize themselves as a global citizen.

Unit
Our Life in Global Society
International Issues and Global Citizenship
Becoming a global citizen
Contents: based on MEXT’s curriculum guidelines

(3) Our lives in modern society
(C) Enhancing world peace and human welfare.
  “To have the students realize the importance of global cooperation and mutual understanding for promoting world peace and raising the standards of human welfare.

Teaching Objectives
Class objectives
To have the students understand the global/human problems faced by today’s international society and encourage them to become sensitive to these problems.
To have the students recognize that respecting the sovereignty of and having a cooperative relationship with other nations will help promote world peace and raise the standards of human welfare in the increasingly interdependent global community; and enable them to have their own opinions about it.
Today’s objectives
(1) Show live feeds from around the world for the students to experience a sense of participation as a “global citizen,” a member of the international community.
(2) Encourage the students to recognize themselves as a global citizen and contribute to solving global problems.

Lesson Plan
(1) The teacher shall show maps and a globe so that the students will take an interest in the world which they are a part of.
(2) The teacher shall name specific countries to discuss the local time of each area.
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(3) The teacher shall show live Internet feed from cameras set in places which the students have interest in.
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(4)

The students, while watching the live feed, shall try to present some of the problems faced by those countries or any information they have about those countries.
(5) The students / the teacher shall write in the names of the countries and key words from the preceding presentation onto the large world map on the blackboard.
(6) The teacher shall explain, using the above key words, how our lives directly and indirectly interconnect with and are mutually interdependent with the rest of the world.  Also he shall add that there are many problems that cannot be solved by one country alone but demand international cooperative efforts, and that such efforts are actually made all over the world.

Preparation/Consideration
(1) Make sure that the live cameras of the sites that will be visited are functioning
(Some links may become unavailable without notice.)
(2) Incorporate the contents already covered in geography into the lesson.

Reference
THE INTERNET’S NEWEST LIVE WEBCAM WEBSITE
http://www.hir-net.com/link/livecam/

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