technique: to send an e-mail using an address book
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Prepare an address book with a number of e-mail addresses. Explain that addresses make sure that e-mails are received by the correct person. Demonstrate how to send a message by selecting an e-mail address from the address book.
Tell the class that they are going to organise an event, eg a party for visitors from another school. Ask them to find out something about the children who will be coming by drafting questionnaires to e-mail to them (as body text). Suitable questions might include: how many are coming; what are their names; what do they like to eat? When replies are received, ask the children to print them out and to think of any further questions that they need to ask.
send e-mails
Points to note
Some children will find sending e-mails difficult. In later years children who are confident using e-mail can be shown how to add addresses to the address book.
This activity could be linked to any data-gathering activity.
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