Introducing the Internet: Telephones and Networks - Lesson

Lesson Plan

Level: Grades 2 to 5

Author: Valerie Steeves

Overview

This lesson provides students with an understanding of the basic structure of electronic network communications and how Internet communications are different from telephone conversations. In a hands-on classroom activity, children create and use paper cup telephones and compare this to sending messages over a computer “web” created with photocopies of computers linked by yarn.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to: 

• describe how messages travel over an open electronic communications network
• understand how electronic communication is different from telephone conversations

This lesson and all associated documents (handouts, overheads, backgrounders) is available in an easy-print, pdf kit version.

Lesson Kit:

Lesson_Introducing_Internet_Telephones_Networks.pdf