FINAL PROJECT SUMMARY
TECHNOLOGY IN THE CURRICULUM
Amy Vieregge

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT


LESSON PLAN

GOAL
	The goal of this unit is to give the secondary special education students an 
awareness of the world around them through the study of crimes and their respective 
punishments in different countries.  


OBJECTIVES
  The students will use the Illinois webquest to find answers to questions about crimes 
and their punishments in Illinois.
  The students will use the  computer to check for results of  our surveys through e-
mail.
  The students will develop some basic skills to tabulate their results on a spreadsheet.
  The students will use a word processor to write a short report of their findings from 
other countries.
  The students will give a short oral report to the class from their written report.
  The students will e-mail students throughout the year and develop a relationship and 
continue to learn more about the country.


TIMELINE

	DAY 1
		The students will be introduced to the unit on Crime and Punishment.  
They will be told what is planned and expected of them.  They will  be reviewed on 
computer basics, e-mail and internet.  They will be assigned a keypal/country for them to 
get the information on the crimes we have selected  and their punishments.  If we have 
received e-mail with the results of the survey, each student will be assigned a 
country/keypal to correspond with and to get the information from so that it can be 
tabulated into our spreadsheet.  The students will be taught about a webquest.  They will 
be reviewed on the basics of word processing and taught a little about spreadsheets.  They 
will be  given some guidelines about what they will be doing with their keypals and what 
they should be trying to find out.  

	
	
	
DAY 2, 3, 4
		The students will start with doing the webquest on Illinois.  They will go 
through it and find the answers to the questions about crimes and their punishments in 
Illinois.    They will learn to open a word processor and type their answers as they go 
through the webquest and toggle back and forth between the webquest and the word 
processor.  

	

DAY 5, 6
	The students will begin to tabulate their results in a spreadsheet.  They will do this 
as a group since the classes are small.  Each student will enter the information they 
have found from the results of the surveys we have posted on the internet.  Each student 
will be responsible for a different country and they will take turns entering the results.


DAY 7, 8
	The students using their webquest answers, their spreadsheet, and any other 
information they have received from e-mail correspondence will begin typing a report in a 
word processor.  They will use spell checker and print out their documents.


DAY 9, 10
	The students will give a short oral report on their country to the rest of the class.
As the students give their reports we will put up a chart on the board to compare the 
punishments of different countries.


EVALUATION
	The students will be evaluated on their answers to the webquest.  They will be 
graded on their written reports about the country from which they have received 
information.  They will be given a grade on their oral reports to the class.  The students 
will be given a short quiz on Illinois laws regarding crime and punishment.