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Extend
the Experience Beyond the Classroom
With so much information on the World Wide Web, we need to become savy information consumers and we need to teach our students to do the same.
Below is a checklist you might use to evaluate the worth of a site before incorporating it into a lesson or activity and a tutorial you can print out to introduce students to the World Wide Web and Search Techniques
WWW Tutorial
Tips on Evaluating a Web Site
Tons of Online Resources for Integrating
Technology K-12!
Ready, Set, Go Games and Activities
Content
10.There is a multimedia element to the site… "a picture is worth a thousand words".
The Techy Side to the
Site
Credibility
Ready, Set, Go Games and Activities
Multiple Disciplines,
Math,
Language Arts,
Science
and Social Studies
Content and Technology Integration
Most of these lessons are ready to use in the classroom on your computer...as I find them, I'll share them...if you happen across any, please email me and I'll add them...that's the nature of teaching...WE SHARE!
A jam packed site
for kids from NASA...play the Solar System Game, Cool Cosmos Concentration, the
Cloud Game, the 3-D Martian Rover Game and many more.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/games/index.html
There are over1,400 hundred lesson ideas at this PBS site. There are ideas for the Arts and Literature, Health and Fitness, Math, Science and Computers, and Social Studies.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts, ready made activities that you can customize to your students.
http://hbogucki.staffnet.com/aemes/activity/interact.htm
Interactive Math
Games with a SPACEY theme...Three levels; preschool to k, 1st to 3rd and 4th to
6th...each level has 5 different fun filled games to ready set play!
http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids0.asp
Disaster Math, a
website by FEMA...students solve Hurricane, Tornado, Earthquake, and Flood Word
Problems.
http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizmath.htm
PLANE (as in airplane ) Math Activities
totally online…an example is Flight Path, where you find the shortest distance
between two cities, Pie in the Sky, when is an overcast sky, really overcast,
and Filler’ Up, plan a flight around the country.
My name is Max, and this is the
truth.
I'm six and a half. My best friend is Ruth.
We like to solve problems all about math,
Like adding, subtracting, patterns, and graphs.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/max/index.htm
HARRY POTTER!...
Here are some online games that students who are
fans of this popular series:
Harry Potter Board Game...Play this one with friends!
The SchoolHouse Rock Page...you might need earphones for this one...Students can choose from Grammar Rock, American Rock, Science Rock and Multiplication Rock.
http://users.aol.com/MRandino/SHRockWWW.html
Fake Out!...guess the definitions of some rather unusual words, and then write your own online definitions.
http://www.eduplace.com/fakeout/index.html
Super Teacher, the English tutor online...
http://webnz.com/checkers/grammar2.html
The Chap with Chaps, an old folktale retold. This site provides help through
technology teaching such skills as vowel sounds, the alphabet, spelling,
listening, answering who, what, when, where, why questions and much more.
Hyperstudio stacks already to download and use on Volcanoes along with detailed lesson ideas.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/downloads/stack.htmlGet your hands on science with a fun experiment from the Dirtmeister — and make science come alive in your classroom!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirt/index.htm#earth
Take a SHARK SAFARI and each time you answer the question correctly you reveal another part of the puzzle.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/sharks/start.html
The adventures of Amelia the Pigeon. Students learn story prediction and basic mapping skills as well as information that helps them to identify different habits as they fly with Amelia over Manhattan.
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/amelia/index.html
During the Great Depression, thousands of young people wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for help. They asked for clothing, money, and other forms of assistance.
Robert Cohen of the University of Georgia tells us the story. There are complete lesson plan ideas that accompany this online exploration of the Dear Ms. Roosevelt Home Page.
http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htmI challenge you to solve the History Mystery...how many clues will YOU need?
http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/index.asp
Join this cross country exploration with Lewis and Clark and help them make the right decisions to reach their destinations.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/west/
Put yourself in the president's office and make presidential choices.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/96/whitehouse/whhome.html
Interactive geography lessons from National Geographic.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/education/ideas.htmlPut in any address and get the location's latitude and longitude.
http://www.geocode.com/modules.php?name=TestDrive_Eagle
Searching for China : A Web Quest on China.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/ChinaQuest.htmlThe Samurai's Tale: A Web Quest about an orphan boy's life in Japan during the Japan's civil war era.
http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/actnow/curriculum/library/japan/samuraistale.htm
Internet Activities and Projects (secondary)
More
to Come