The One Computer Classroom Technology Curriculum Integration ideas! classroom Discussions When creating a project, have students work in teams of 4 or next to the computer. teach the students how to set the http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bcisd/classres/onecomp.htm
Extractions: updated 8/22/00 You can use almost any educational software or Internet sites from the front of the classroom to guide and direct student learning and to inspire discussion. It helps to create roles for the groups so each person has a perspective to help guide the discussion. Offline browsers can take sites down to your harddrive or floppy disk and be viewed when not connected to the Internet. There are several benefits to using an offline browser. WebWhacker is the one I'm using. You can buy it directly from the company that makes it:
Sample Science Fair Projects guides and use them in the classroom or at find science trivia, lesson plans, project ideas, puzzles and tools that stimulate teachers to teach with excellence http://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/sample-science-fair-projects.html
Extractions: I went out and visited your site several times and one word: IMPRESSIVE!! It is an amazing site and I love the interactive-ness to keep students on track. I held a Teachers Workshop here on our campus for teachers in our science fair area, and told them about your site. I also via the computer/overhead projector took them on a tour and encouraged them to utilize your site. As I told them, if you can only use one site, yours is the way to go.
Classroom Lesson Plans: Helping Teachers Teach History net Site designed for teacher exchange of ideas and lessons Links on Using Technology in the classroom American Crossroads project Using technology http://hnn.us/articles/875.html
Extractions: Below are links to sites specifically designed to help teachers use the Internet in designing courses in history. Please feel free to send us other links we should post. Just drop an email to the editor. Note: Descriptions of the sites are taken from the sites themselves. THE SYLLABUS FINDER The Syllabus Finder : This site, run by George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, features an automated search tool that locates relevant syllabi on any topic. The Syllabus Finder scans the largest database of history syllabiover 11,000 and growing dailyin combination with a powerful Google-based search of thousands of others on the web. You can compare courses at different universities, see how widely assigned a specific book is, or use it to plan your own course. (Authors: You can use it to find out how widely assigned your own book is.) FOR K-12 TEACHERS The New York Times Learning Network: This site is geared towards students in grades 3-12, their teachers and parents. Teachers can access daily lesson plans for grades 6-12, as well as quizzes built around NYT articles. Previous lessons are available in the archive and in thematic lesson plan units. Teachers can also use News Snapshot, aimed for grades 3-5, to explore current events through New York Times photos and related questions. The site also provides them with the latest education news from the newspaper.
Re: Classroom Project Ideas??? Previous Up Re classroom project ideas? From John Davidson a clear concise statement of something you want to teach and we will try to help make a dynamite demo http://www.midnightscience.com/_web/000007c6.htm
Extractions: Remote Name: Tim, The reason I asked is that I have previously tried to help (as volunteer) with lesson plans for a crystal radio and the principles involved are usually far over the head of most kids that age. What I need is a simple understandable principal that can be communicated by building a crystal radio, or any other project, for that matter. I found that I must watch the "gee whiz" aspect. Things that I find gee whiz are things that seem to defy the laws of physics. But kids dont know those laws as well as I and they are liable to take demos of exceptional behavior as the norm. For example, di-magentism of bismuth. Hang a bismuth crystal on a thread and bring a strong magnet near it, it repels in any orientation. That is gee whiz to me, but after demonstrating it to a kid, he asked me, then why is this screw attracted to my magnet, as if attraction were the exception. That got my attention. What point was I getting across anyway? That science is NOT understandable? So, please give me a clear concise statement of something you want to teach and we will try to help make a dynamite demo-experiment that has a "gee whiz" climax that drives home the precise point! (Maybe).
Re: Classroom Project Ideas??? Previous Up Re classroom project ideas? From John Davidson I will help you come up with simple projects that teach a point, if I know the point http://www.midnightscience.com/_web/000007b1.htm
Extractions: Remote Name: Tim, My question would be, what are your teaching objectives regarding the projects. What point do you want to get across to 85% of the students. I will help you come up with simple projects that teach a point, if I know the point. Typically, I expect you would want a succession of points (and a succession of experiments or demos, hands on) that lead to an understanding of something. For eighth grade, it needs to be simple and obvious. Regards, John Last changed: May 17, 2004
Project Ideas For Teachers I find using postcards to be a vital part to my classroom. Next 5 Projects ideas. teachnology - The Art and Science of teaching with Technology is a registered http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/projects/
Extractions: "Research Scavenger Hunt" Nancy Harrington, Grade 7 Teacher/Dag Hammarskjold M.S. "This is great for the end of the school year (especially if your media center is air-conditioned and your classroom isn't). Using the research worksheets provided on this site, I had the students work in teams of three to find the necessary information. They could use the Internet, reference books, and other sources, as well. They loved doing it, and it was a great way to keep cool while letting them out of the classroom." "Making Flags" Terry Silvestri: Kent, Nevada Materials: Construction paper, writing paper, popsicle stick or flag stick, crayons, markers, glue, pencils. Ask students to create mini flags for all themes being studied. Then have the students attach their flags to the book. I like to have them make individual flags for each character in the book we are reading at the time. On the back of the flag, I ask them to write an acrostic poem about character. They love it!
Special Education Lesson Plans as a group on the project, Deborah Dudzak s Technology, Media and Materials ideas and resources for improving your Special Education classroom. http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/special_ed/
Extractions: Downloads ... Professional Development Enter your email address for FREE weekly teaching tips! Home Teacher Resources Lesson Plans Special Education ... Abuse It, Lose It - Logical Consequences for Teaching Self-Control to Mischievous Children. Art for All - The teacher found that the photogram was an excellent medium of expression for his students because the photogram (or shadowgram) lends itself to an almost endless array of creative arrangements while not requiring the fine motor control of regular photography. Bits of Braille - Lesson plan for fourth through sixth grades utilizing the braille alphabet and information on Helen Keller. Collaborative Lesson Archive - A colloborative area for exchange lesson ideas. Crayola Art Education * Lesson Plans - A long time to download, but well worth it. Cultural Awareness - The children involved in this project were provided with individual plans of physical and occupational therapy to help them deal with developmental delays, physical disabilities such as cerebral palsy or spina bifida, or injuries and surgeries. Working together, Hill, a physical education teacher, and Phillips, a special education teacher, designed individual activity sheets for each child in consultation with physical and occupational therapists.
How To Teach Poetry - Online Poetry Classroom Inspired by Pinsky s Favorite Poem project, students read aloud a On Poetry Night a classroom is converted into a coffee house ideas for methods were supplied http://www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org/how/index.cfm?prmPageID=7
Education World® : School Issues : Using Art To Reach And Teach Using Art to Reach and teach. moment in the classroom in the Education World Voice of Included Modenbach shares sample art project ideas plus a message board http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues294.shtml
Extractions: Career Education ... Voice of Experience School Issues Article V O I C E O F E X P E R I E N C E Each week, an educator takes a stand or shares an Aha! moment in the classroom in the Education World Voice of Experience column. This week, educator Kathleen Modenbach reflects on how art projects can be a great bridge between some students and difficult content. She recalls how an art project constructed around Romeo and Juliet spurred one special education student to ask "Did Shakespeare write anything else?" Wow! Included: Modenbach shares sample art project ideas plus a message board where you can share your pet art projects! Although I appreciate art, I'm no good at it. In fact, I can draw only stick people. I confess this to my high school students whenever I assign an art project, which I do from time to time to motivate their understanding of literature. I've been assigning art projects for years. I realized long ago long before it was fashionable or mandated the benefits of teaching to student learning styles and strengths. Back then, as a novice special education teacher, I discovered that a large percentage of my learning disabled students were good artists and that their artistic talents weren't being nurtured or capitalized upon. It was then that I started using art projects to reinforce everything from Shakespearean drama to modern literature.
Extractions: Career Education ... Holidays and Special Days Curriculum Article C U R R I C U L U M A R T I C L E Teachers use a variety of ways to educate students about the historic significance of Veterans Day, coming on November 11. Some teachers ask students to interview a veteran, others invite current members of the military to talk to their students, and others use the holiday as a chance to focus on the historical time line that evolved Veterans Day into a national holiday. Included: Classroom activities for teaching about Veterans Day! Although many towns mark Veterans Day by closing school, the holiday provides teachers with opportunities for presenting lessons and assemblies often held the week before Veterans Day in many different areas. History including students' own family histories language arts, civics, geography, and social responsibility, are just a few. Veterans Day has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1938; originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of World War I on November 11, 1918. After World War II, the name was changed to Veterans Day. Congress declared it a day to honor all veterans in 1954. Canada honors its veterans on Remembrance Day, also celebrated November 11.
Teach Magazines Or Magazine Links US Or Worldwide Each issue includes fun activities to teach readers about science, health Includes classroom project ideas, products, news, information on current events and http://hopcott.com/magazines/teach.html
Tolerance.org Teaching Tolerance Classroom Activities Share your ideas and earn some extra cash too. 2004 teach students about the right to safety with a project based on the 1989 Go to the classroom Activity. http://www.tolerance.org/teach/expand/act/index.jsp
Extractions: QUESTION: HOW CAN WE INTRODUCE TEACHERS TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF NEW MEDIA? ANSWER: GO ONLINE WITH THE TEACHERS NETWORK TEACHNET PROJECT. For three days in August 2000, several teachers participating in the New York City TeachNet Project (www.teachersnetwork.org/teachnet) gathered in a high school computer lab in downtown Manhattan for a workshop designed to address the technical, practical, and pedagogical issues surrounding the integration of new media into classroom curriculum. While there were the inevitable discussions of hardware, software, and various technological trials and tribulations, this group of teachersall of whom had already used new media in their own classrooms and were preparing to serve as mentors to less experienced teacherswas at its liveliest when the conversation turned to the subject of how technology has influenced their teaching and the learning process of their students. One teacher remarked, "It's unbelievable. Kids who used to struggle to pay attention in class are so excited about learning; they come in early and stay after school to work on their projects. Kids of every level of ability get equally excited, too. There's no competition, only individual enthusiasm and accomplishment." Another emphatically nodded her head and agreed: "Absolutely. And there's ownership. Kids use the Internet to research, they use the computer to create a report or a work of creative writing or a newsletter with a desktop publishing program, whateverwhen they put all the tools together, produce something original, and see it with their name on it, on the class Web page or in that newsletter, they own it. They take tremendous pride in their work and want to do more."
School Composting: Journey To Forever Good color illustrations teach all about worms. ideas, Online Recycling Curriculums and project ideas, more. activities into many different classroom subjects. http://journeytoforever.org/edu_compost.html
Extractions: Projects Community development Why we're doing this Rural development Fixing what's broken City farms Edible cities Organic gardening Everyone can grow their own food Composting The Wheel of Life Small farms The way forward Biofuels Fuel for the future Solar box cookers Sun power saves lives and trees Trees, soil and water Healthcare for mountains Seeds of the world No seeds, no food Appropriate technology What works and fits Project vehicles The workhorses
ESC/Teacher Resources for an online course; and classroom Today, weekly the opportunity to lend their unique ideas and knowledge contact Stacy Avery project Director, project Eteach http://eteach.esc13.net/t_o_proj.htm
Extractions: Online Project/Collaboration Gaggle.Net Free Filtered Email for Schools: This safe, free email service is designed specifically for student use (in the classroom, library, or at home). An easy way for teachers to allow students to email, facilitate classroom email projects, and monitor student tasks.
ALPS: The Thinking Classroom: Information And Resources Articles published articles written by project Zero associates and inform and activate your own ideas about how you ll teach thinking in your classroom. http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/thinking/info.cfm
Extractions: T eachers and researchers come together in this section to provide Pictures of Practice. You'll find sample thinking-centered lessons and projects teachers have developed in their classrooms, as well as published articles and ideas for further reading. Also, teachers provide practical tips and identify some of the learning challenges they faced as they infused thinking into their instructional practices. Use this section to connect and deepen your knowledge base of the thinking approaches in The Ways of Thinking section. Use this section to provide models of teaching thinking. Seeing what other teachers are doing is a powerful way to inform and activate your own ideas about how you'll teach thinking in your classroom.
Extractions: Free reciprocal links with ESL go: increase link popularity, increase page rank, increase search engine rankings, increase traffic! Teacher education links, teacher development links, + teacher training links. ESL + EFL classroom activities, handouts, + lesson plans ESL jobs, EFL jobs, + job advertisements for ELT Site name Comments Cyber EFL Website development help for teachers. This site was my source for the javascript used to create my classes and quizzes. AWSD scripts CGI scripts, including the one for the message boards used on ESLgo.com. KOTESOL CALL SIG Website for the KOTESOL CALL SIG, which I facilitate. Site name Comments Word Surfing A vocabulary learning strategy which encourages students to develop good language habits by keeping well-organized and personal notebooks. Literacy Connections Resources for teaching reading.
Project Summary teach students from the elementary to the secondary level of education. classroom teachers will be able to use our resources and sample projects to get ideas http://www.temple.edu/litt-l2l/intro.htm
Extractions: Project LITT Home Page Summary and in other sections of this web site. This site offers college faculty and classroom teachers information and ideas to consider when integrating technology in the classroom, resources to help incorporate technology in Language Arts English Education, and sample student projects to illustrate technologys use in curriculum. This site can also be used by college faculty and classroom teachers in non-Language Arts subject areas to help them implement technology in their own curricula. As a result of Project LITT experiences, it became evident that much of the information we used and ideas we developed could be useful to the following audiences: Pre-service K-8 Language Arts Instruction, Pre-service 9-12 English Education, and Pre-service Teacher Education in other disciplines, and K-12 Classroom Teachers and Administrators . Thus, the decision was made to combine all of the resources we had assembled into one general manual and to provide separate "orientations" for the respective audiences that help guide them to informative materials for their own use. A brief description of the orientations follows.
AIE Classroom Projects ideas one by one together. Students will clean any mess and put loose pieces of project in envelope with their name on it. Extension This lesson is to teach http://www.aiaphila.org/aie/new-stuff/class_projects/Levering_Sp97.html
Squeak Ideas For A Classroom/clubhouse Squeak ideas for a classroom/clubhouse. teach the older ones a few days before the younger ones. So it s a good idea to have more project ideas for them. http://squeakland.org/pipermail/squeakland/2003-January/000479.html
Extractions: Sat Jan 18 11:28:06 PST 2003 What we try to do is inspired by Montessori: to come up with projects that the kids absolutely treat as toys and play, that also have (we I think this is a really powerful idea, one that we haven't managed to truly tap into in our first week because of the structure we chose for the sessions. In fact, I think it might even be worthwhile for us to look into what Montessori said, or how it's practiced today, because I think what we're donig is (unintentionally) much closer to the traditional School methods of teaching (instructionist) rather than a constructi(on/v)ist way of letting them do whatever it is they want to do. I've put up a long ramble about my experiences in the first two sessions up at http://203.128.1.227/research
