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Hot Spots for Lesson Plans
Teaching with Electronic Technology http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html
This website is basically just a list of
other websites that contain educational materials regarding technology.
The sites listed do not necessarily contain lesson plans, but include theories,
discussions, papers, and developments in educational technology, which
were fairly insightful once you actually found them.
The Texas Education Network http://www.tenet.edu/
TENET has links to support and service,
news and announcements, partners and programs, schools on the webs, classroom
resources and curricula, and professional development and opportunities.
It is a site geared to administrators, elementary teachers, secondary teachers,
parents, and even students.
Study Web - Teaching Resources http://www.studyweb.com/
This site is full of valuable information
for educators, parents, students, etc. It has links to information on Standards
of Learning, Special Education, Clubs, Distance Education, Educational
Journals, Lesson Plans, and Volunteering. Most of the links are useful
sites, but some of them are not as helpful as they may appear.
Teachers.Net http://www.teachers.net/
Teachers will have access to a variety of
education related information through this site. My favorite aspect of
this site was the link to lesson plans. There were lesson plans of every
subject submitted by real teachers. The lessons were great!
The Academy Curriculum Exchange http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/
Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and
Language are the subjects of the lesson plans offered on this page. The
lessons were for grades K-12 and varied in types of activities and degree
of difficulty.
Lesson Plans Across the Curriculumhttp://members.aol.com/Donnpages/LessonPlans.html
This site has many, many lesson plans for
many subjects with creative themes. Some of the lesson plan subjects are
Vo-Tech, Behavior and Self-Esteem, and Diet and Nutrition. The lesson plans
were veryinteresting.
Computer Skills Lesson Plans http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/Curriculum/Computer.skills/lssnplns/CompCurr.LP.html
This website is great because it has dozens
of lesson plans dealing with basic computer skills. From teaching kindergarteners
how to open files from teaching seventh graders how to format disks are
some of the skills taught at all grade levels. The lesson plans include
fun little activities to spice up the lessons.
Teaching N' Technology http://twister.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/
Teaching N' Technology is a wonderful site
full of creative lesson plan used to enhance any student's learning. There
is a search engine where you can type in any keyword and find a lesson
plan to match. After the search is done, a list of lesson plans with helpful
descriptions are to follow. The lesson plans are presented in a standard
format.
Blue Web 'N http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
The site contains wonderful Blue Ribbon
lesson plans. The home page of the site has a chart with each subject and
activities, tutorials, web-based projects, and unit plans. It is so organized
that you will findexactly what you are looking for with no problem. Since
it is Blue Ribbon, it is a sure bet that the lessons will be great.
Education Place http://www.eduplace.com/search/activity.html
This great site allows you to search for
any subject listed for any grades K through 8th. A list of the matching
sites appears with brief descriptions. The lesson plans are creative and
cute on a wide variety of topics.
Scholastic Teachers Homepage: http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm
This website is a great resource for teachers.
Not only does it have lesson plans, it also gives opportunity for students
to learn more about things that they are interested in. For example, on
this site there is a discussion forum with J. K. Rowling, the writer of
the enormously popular Harry Potter books.
In and Out of the Classroom with Office
2000: http://www.microsoft.com/education/tutorial/classroom/o2k/default.asp
This site is actually pretty bad. But, I
felt that I needed to include it so I could say how much I hate Microsoft
and in turn Bill Gates. This whole site is nothing but a promotion for
Office 2000. All it does is show the feature of Office 2000 and doesn't
how the teacher how to use it with in the classroom. This seems to be a
common theme with in the Microsoft websites. They are listed in such a
way that they seem like they are an actual informational site, when in
reality they are nothing more than promotions! Teachers beware!
The WebQuest Page: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/
What can I say? This is the quintessential
WebQuest site. This site not only shows examples of WebQuests that can
be used by teachers, it also shows the teachers how they can build their
own. This site is mentioned quite a bit in Teacher computer-conferences
and for good reason-it's the place to go.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock is the angel of the Internet
for teachers. Well, maybe that's saying a lot, but she definitely has her
work cut out for her. This site is highly thorough. It is also user friendly
for the teacher and student looking at this site. She breaks down everything
into specific subject matters, better enabling a person to find what he
or she wants.
Teachers N Technology: http://www.mccsc.edu/~wtamborr/tnt/tnt.html
This is another very good site for teachers.
It offers lesson plans, different Internet projects as well as many other
things that a teacher would find useful. I heard the person who made the
site is pretty neat too!
Building Integrated Technology Activities:http://www.essdack.org/activities/
This site, though a bit confusing when starting,
offers quite a few activities for teachers to use in the classroom.
Access the Projects Database: http://www.essdack.org/projects/
This doesn't have too many resources, but
what they do have is good. Almost all of it is projects. I would also suggest
that they change the color scheme on the page. It was almost painful to
look at.
Classroom Connect: http://www.classroom.net/home.asp
This site is just cute. Everything about
it is cute. It has a lot of resources for students, but unlike many of
the other pages, the design of the page is wonderful. It seems to have
more elementary school basedprojects, but that doesn't make them any less
valuable.
http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/lessons/lessons.html
This site has a huge list of topics to choose
from. Each topic has lessons that include technology in them. Some of the
topics include: Endangered Species, Countries, and Geography. The list
of lessons includes the use of software and the use of websites in them.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/educationforum/lessonplans.html
This site had a list of subjects that you
can choose from to find lessons. The amount of technology in each lesson
varies. Each lesson connected to Internet sites in order to help students
solve problems. Some lessons even used programs to help students. For example,
some of the math lessons used Math in My World to help them.
http://www.uno.edu/%7Eedci/techless.htm
This site had a ton of lessons for getting
to know the computer and also for school subjects. The used programs like
Infofinder to help the students to solve the problems posed in the lesson.
It had a lot of integration of computers in all aspects.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/kids/planning/index.html
This site is just one lesson for students.
It is how to teach children to make their own websites. It is called Webmonkey
for kids. It gives teachers all of the information that they should know
on how to do this lesson effectively in their class.
http://www.essdack.org/tips/page1.htm
This was great website for teachers. It
tells teachers how to use computers as tools for making classroom management
tasks easier. Then it gives a list of student projects. There are projects
using spreadsheets, the Internet, multimedia, word processing, and database.
http://www.eduniverse.com/edu/lessonp.asp
This site had more specific lesson plans
using technology. There were lessons listed under several states. Some
of the topics were: What causes weather change? and Where do you want to
go this year? These lessons are from teachers that participate in the 1999
Intel Applying Computers in Education Program.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4610/lessons.html
These are lessons on the actual computer.
There are lessons like secret e-mail pals, and parts and keyboard game.
This site is actually a technology lesson plan that was used at South Smithfield
Primary School.It gets students familiar with using the computer and they
can learn all of the parts of it.
http://www.sjsd.k12.mo.us/tmc/sara/CreativeConnections/techlessons.html
This site had technology lesson plans for
each grade. They were basically only for learning computer skills and getting
to know computers. However, they were still good lesson.
Manduca.net http://manduca.entomology.wisc.edu/teacher/index.html
This page contains a full lesson of the
Manduca or Tobacco Hornworm. It is designed for grades k-12 Science and
is meant for a situation where every child has a computer, although this
is rarely the case, they provide alternatives as well. The lessons are
broken down and easy to follow with exact step by step guides. The technology
is as simple as keeping charts, graphs and data on the computer to write
a scientific journal, and writeup of the experiment.
Ask Eric http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Ed_Tech/index.html
AskEric offers a searchable database for
lesson plans, the above is the location of the Educational Technology listings.
The lessons are listed with their subject and grade intention level. The
lessons give you their author, approximate time allocation, goals, objectives
and materials, as well as proceedure and assessment. The lessons range
from a variety of topics and cover all sorts of uses for technology, one
is on graphs, another on networking and database.
NIH image design http://www.mcs.net/~highland/plans/nih.lesson.html
This site offers a three part lesson using
NIH imaging. It is designed for children to learn how to measure and equate
while also learning and practicing using NIH imaging and available software
for MACs.
IBM Lesson plans http://www2.clearlake.ibm.com/edu/k12/teacher/lp_text.html
IBM has put out a series of lessons involving
computer technology. Each lesson stresses the use of the internet. All
lessons are broken down in to goals and objectives and listed according
to grade level. Lessons are also ready to download ASCII or POSTScript
for easy printing.
Dr. Cheryl A Wissick's Course Projectshttp://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/lessons/lessons.html
These lessons were designed by students
at the University of South Carolina in the same position as us, technology
endorsement students. Dr. Wissick posted these lessons in hopes that they
would be helpful and idea inspiring to inservice and preservice students.
A sample lesson involves a pair of students working at a computer to research
aquatic life and to put together a presentation.
Teacher.net http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Computer
This site is a list of lessons surrounding
the computer. One lesson involves cut and paste using Claris Works and
Kid Pix in the discipline of Language Arts. The lessons are clear and laid
out, you could easily print them out and hand them to the children as guidelines.
The Computer Teacher's Resource Pagehttp://nimbus.temple.edu/~jallis00/
Provides valuable links to sites containing
everything a computer teacher may need to know about maintaining a lab,
teaching a lesson in any discipline and troubleshooting. Subject areas
are broken down so you can easily find your way to SHAREWARE (good free
stuff) so your class can do a lesson they may not have had access to otherwise.
The Lesson Plans Page http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
This guide is set up to ask you 2-3 questions,
topic, grade level, and lesson desired. There are several listings of lessons.
A sample lesson might look like a normal lesson plan with goals, materials,
assessment,and proceedure but these lessons also contain an intergration
component with ideas on how to incorporate other areas into this lesson.
http://www.proteacher.com/lessonplans.html- This site has many links to different lesson plans and activity ideas for primary and intermediate grades K-6 including math, social studies and science lessons. This site also has a lesson plan search where you type in what kind of lesson you are looking for and they take you to possible matches.
http://www.proteacher.com/020010.shtml
This site contains many links to useful
sites containing information on
possible themes and units. One would
find more than 400 classroom activities
and lesson plans for grades K-8 here.
http://members.aol.com/MGoudie/index.html
This site was made by a teacher for those
days when you have a sub and you
don't know what to have them do. This
site contains many lesson plans and
even a one-day Bat unit.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/#anchor581196
This site contains links to some more lesson
plans based on subject area such
as language arts, math or science.
http://www.knownet.net/users/Ackley/lessons.html
A collection of over 250 lesson ideas for
Spelling, Writing, English,
Reading, and Vocabulary activities for grades
5th and 6th.
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/Curriculum/Computer.skills/lssnplns/CompCurr.LP.html
This site contains lesson plans based on
the use of computer skills.
http://www.col-ed.org/smcnws/msres/curriculum.html
This site contains links to internet based
lesson plans.
http://members.aol.com/Donnpages/LessonPlans.html
This site contains lesson plans from across
the curriculum.
Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp
This site has a variety of lesson plans
for different topics and ages. There are also many online resources
used and included in the lesson plans. Many of the lesson plans call
for Encarta encyclopedia software, but I am pretty sure you could do them
without it. This site has a good use of technology and has some very
good links.
CEC lessonplans http://www.col-ed.org/smcnws/msres/curriculum.html
This was a very simple site. It was
a list of other lists of math and science lesson plans separated by topic
and age level. I chose secondary mathematics and got a new list of
options.
One site that I chose from the list above
was called Curriculum materials, under secondary mathematics http://www.wilpaterson.edu/wpcpages/icip/itm/Lessonpl/lessplan.html
.
It was interesting because it separated
the lesson plans into different technologies. For example, there
were lessons for using graphing calculators, maple software etc.
Online Math Applications http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4116
This site has different activities for students
that connect math with “real life.” There are lessons and activities
that cover topics such as investing, music, history, trips and science.
I went into the investing segment and it was really interesting, it provided
a lot of information, was very complete, and did a good job explaining
terms.
Academy Curriculum Exchange (Science)
http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/high.html
This is a very simple site. It is
geared for teachers only and consists of lists of different labs.
It’s not going to win any creativity awards, but if you’re looking for
a lab, you have a good chance of finding it here.
Teachweb http://www.teachweb.com
This site was huge. There were many
lesson plans that are separated into subject and there was also a search
engine to help you find what you’re looking for. I thought this site
was almost too big, and it was easy to spend a lot of time searching around.
One cool thing that the site has is an online Intro to computers and the
internet course consisting of powerpoint lectures and labs.
SciEd: Science and Mathematics Education
Resources http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/science.html
This site is boring to look at, but it has
many links to other science related topics-including current events article,
and on-line ethics discussions on science related topics. Another
cool link the site has to offer is to a page of experts or organizations
that you can send science questions to. (Unfortunately only about
2/3 of the experts’ links worked!)
WebElements Periodic Table http://www.webelements.com/webelements.html
This is a neat site! On the WebElements
site you can find ANYTHING you want to know about a particular element.
It would be a very good site for student to use.
Homework Central
http://homeworkcentral.com
This site has a lot of teacher information
and lesson plans. If you hit the teen link you can find “notes” on
pretty much any topic. I checked into some of the math notes.
They seemed to be a great resource for both students and teachers and even
included possible assignments for different technologies (such as a graphing
calculator, different math software, etc.) for each topic.