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Art Capades is a bilingual website that includes simple art activities for K-3 bilingual or monolingual students. This website allows young students to view and imitate various art styles. |
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A WebQuest for grades K - 4. Some people think elementary school students should be coloring inside the lines, circling words in a search, or copying sentences from the board. This WebQuest encourages groups to see how things work, impact each other, and interrelate to build a network of understanding that memorization of simple facts can't. |
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This Website allows students of African-American history to sample aspects of the subject with a wide variety of Internet-based activities. |
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This activity was created to commemorate California's 150th birthday. You can reflect on the ancestors and leaders who influenced the earliest days of our state's past. Is there a oneness linking the past and present? This is the question you will explore. |
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Some people call this subject "School Safety." But if schools were always safe places to be, we wouldn't be thinking about safety. So aren't we really talking about "school violence?" The Crool Zone is a series of activities to help explore issues related to school safety. |
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The plight of the Donner Party remains one of the most poignant episodes in the history of westward expansion during the 19th Century. "Donner Online" invites students to roleplay and research using the Web and a HyperStudio template. |
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One of our most popular activities, Eyes on Art provides a series of learning opportunities for older students. It consists of a teacher's guide and progresses through to "you choose," "artspeak," "double visions," "no fear o' eras," "true view," and a quiz. |
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Probably today's teenagers! So they get to use interactive Budget Simulators, a National Debt clock, and online articles to better understand the issue and then mail feedback to their congressional representatives. |
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Download the gameboard, cards, etc. and provide a fun way for students to reinforce and test their Big6 Information Literacy skills. |
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A series of Web-based Activities. Because the topic of China is so rich and timely, we've used it to demonstrate a variety of Web-based activity approaches. Explore a Hotlist, Multimedia Scrapbook, Subject Sampler, Treasure Hunt, Introductory WebQuest or Full WebQuest. |
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| 21st Century Literacy |
21st Century Literacies refer to the skills needed to flourish in today's society and in the future. See the movie, E-literate Today discrete disciplines have emerged around information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies. This site was developed as part of a special project for KNE by students and staff at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. |
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Our searchable library includes annotated links to educational internet sites categorized by audience, content area, and type. Some 33,000 subscribers receive our free weekly update (usually 5 new sites a week). |
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Mervyn's sponsored the original Uncommon Mission as part of its corporate commitment to raise public awareness about the preservation needs of California Missions. Think Jacobson and Roth, creators of the traveling exhibit, approached Pacific Bell (now AT&T) Knowledge Network Explorer on behalf of Mervyn's which ultimately lead to this web site. |
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This resource helps teachers and librarians use two-way video effectively. The site includes teaching strategies, planning tools, searchable directories, an interactive discussion list, and more. |
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Strategies and Resources for Using the Internet Effectively in the Classroom
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The Internet can be very powerful when teachers take their own classroom curriculum and structure Internet content to provide new types of learning opportunities for students. These series of modules will help provide teachers with a basic foundation of using the Internet and also examine strategies and resources in which they can effectively use it with their students. |
Tools: help the user create something original or accomplish a task |
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How do you get started integrating the wealth of the Web into your learning environment? Filamentality is an Interactive Website that guides you through creating five different types of Web pages and then posts it right on the Internet! Try making a Hotlist, Multimedia Scrapbook, Subject Sampler, Treasure Hunt, or WebQuest. Create one or collect all five! |
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Fill in the blanks and HomeMaker will generate your personal Web page. Due to space limitations, you'll have to download it and put it on your own server. |
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Similar to HomeMaker Online, this fill-in-the-blanks tool will create an entire website for your library. Due to space limitations, you'll have to download it and put it on your own server. |
