Antonyms Attract

Nancy Langston, Lou Ann Tilley, Joanne Whitley
Piedmont / White Pine Elementary Schools

Grade Level:  Second

Subjects: Reading/Language Arts

Overview

Using ICQ students will communicate with other students in an activity using antonyms.

Time Frame
30 - 45 minutes

Objectives

In this lesson, students will:

• contact other students using ICQ.
• send a word and ask for its antonym.

• check for accuracy and send feedback.

• Software Used in this Lesson

• Develop a list of words and antonyms.
• Connect with another class using ICQ.
• Our class will send a word and ask the participating class to send the antonym.
• After each response our class will give feedback and offer other possible antonyms.

Title1: ICQ Home Page

URL1: http://www.mirabilis.com
 

Description1: ICQ is a communication program that allows one to chat or send messages to others online. One can download the ICQ program at this site.
 

Title2: Antonyms

URL2: http://www.askjeeves.com/FinalAnswer.asp?qCategory=REF%5F&Link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eindex%2Emis%2Enet%2Fzipfast%2Fknow%2F420A6%2ETXT&Title=Antonyms&Answers=1&ajparam_fillers=&ajparam_qid=145&site_name=Jeeves&scope=web&ask=Where+can+I+learn+about+antonyms%3F

Description2: This page has an extensive list of words and their antonyms.
 
 

Title3: Understanding Antonyms

URL3: http://www.askjeeves.com/MetaAnswer.asp?MetaEngine=Excite&logQID=5F4D4FCDCAA4D21181F100600894893D&qCategory=REF_&qSource=0&frames=yes&site_name=Jeeves&scope=web&r=x&MetaTopic=Second+Grade+Language+Arts+-+Antonyms&MetaURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msad71.net%2Fpark%2Fcurrdemos%2Fantonym.html&EngineOrdinal=1&ItemOrdinal=3&ask=what+are+antonyms%3F+metasearch&MetaList=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msad71.net%2Fpark%2Fcurrdemos%2Fantonym.html&Go_to.x=16&Go_to.y=13

Description3: This site describes how students can illustrate antonyms.

Name
Nancy Langston

Lou Ann Tilley
 

School Home Page URL

Piedmont Elementary http://207.125.93.3/pes.htm

White Pine Elementary http://207.125.93.3/wps.htm

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