Knowledge Network Explorer Site Guide

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See the table below to locate specific content.  

Wired Learning:
ready to use lessons and activities for your classroom or library.

• Big Wide World WebQuest (grades K-4, see how things work)
• Black History Past and Present (sample the subject with a wide variety of Internet-based activities)
• California at 150 (reflect on the ancestors and leaders who influenced California's past)
• Crool Zone (series of activities to help explore issues related to school safety)
• Donner Online (invites students to roleplay and research)
• Especially Español (ideas, tutorials, and activities to use in the bilingual classroom)
• Eyes on Art (explore feelings about art, art terms, take a quiz, and more)
• Look Who's Footing the Bill! (helps students better understand the National Debt)
• Nuts and Bolts of the Big6 Game (reinforce and test Big6 Information Literacy skills)
• Searching for China (full range of activities including hotlist, treasure hunt, and webquest)

Projects: goals and outcomes are broad; duration is long-term

• Nonprofit Prophets (community action project challenges students to investigate a problem then create a World Wide Web Resource page about it)

Resources: informational, not comprehensive

• 21st Century Literacy (information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies)
• Art Capades (bilingual website with simple art activities for K-3)
• Grant Opportunity Resources (search engines, writing grants, professional resources)
• Hot Internet Sites ¡en Español! (popular hotlist of spanish language sites)
• Uncommon Mission (learn about California missions)
• Videoconferencing for Learning (use two-way video effectively, find and connect with others)
• Strategies and Resources for Using the Internet Effectively in the Classroom (tutorial)

Tools: helps the user create something original or accomplish a task (ie. searching/locating)

• Blue Web'n (locate web-based content)
• Filamentality (create your own learning activites)
• HomeMaker Online (create a personal, downloadable web page)
• HomeMaker for Libraries (create a library website to download)

• Algunos Lugares en Español
• Around the Web in Eighty Minutes
• Beyond the Son of Filamentality
• Camp GetchaontheWeb
• Finding Things on the Internet
• NonProfit Prophets (version 1)
• San Diego Zoo InternQuest
• Webtime Stories