The only way that using the Internet, or technology in general, is going to be successful for you is if you can find ways of using it to enhance your current curriculum without significantly extending or complicating your lessons. However, you must accept the fact that in learning or applying anything new there must always be some additional time invested.

Begin the year with:

a) An intro to the Web & Web Browser

b) How about a scavenger hunt ( to familiarize them with navigation)

(e.g. cybersurfari)

c) Treasure Hunt -http://www.eduplace.com/projects/treasure.html

(alternate) QUIA http://www.quia.com/sh/1000.html

d) Sample- Read Across America Scavenger Hunt

http://www.springfield.k12.pa.us/elm/scavenger.html

e) Then a talk on plagiarism and citing sources (see worksheet)

f) A lesson on saving, copying and pasting (pictures and text)

Place your mouse of the picture to be copied.

Click and Hold (a window opens and displays a number of choices)

Select either: Copy Image to Clipboard or Save Image to Disk

Highlight the text you want to copy, then go to EDIT, and select "Copy"

Open a new Clarisworks document

From EDIT, "Paste" the text onto that new document

If you’re in Hyperstudio, simply "Paste" the text you copied onto a card

g) What you can and can’t do on these computers (limitations of tech and software) - avoid .ra , .avi, .pdf , and anything that requires downloading

ra = Real Audio avi = PC Video format pdf = Adobe Acrobat File

See if you can download and install Adobe Acrobat reader from this site :

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Encourage using a site to list assignments and web sites to use.

(e.g.) schoolnotes.com, ikeepbookmarks.com, Bancroft school web site

On these sites you might list the web sites for your class to use in a current project. It might also have the project itself listed here.

Advantages : Can work on at school and from home (flexible)

Don’t have to type in URLs (saves time)

Parents know the assignment (communication)

Web search engines (discourage wide use) Too time consuming

-general info (http://www.searchengines.com)

http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/reviews/

-refining your search using advanced search features

-search engines for students

( Yahooligans, Kid’s Tools, Ask Jeeves For Kids, Searchopolis, KidsClick )

Let’s use Google as an example

Let’s also take a look at KidsClick

Sample of ideas (3 sample worksheets)

TFK- To lead into an exploration of this topic

Poetry- An intro leading to a biography of a poet

Stone Ages- Search and recover info (Bloom-Knowledge and Analysis)

Sample Lesson Ideas with Curriculum Integration

Book - Ancient Civilizations "Web Instructor" (Forest Technologies)

Page 30 Build a web and fill in the detail (Inspiration )

Page 31 Venn Diagram- Can apply this to many sites (Claris Draw)

Page 33 Typical worksheet- Review site and gather information

Page 34 Great multimedia Rubric ( e.g. for Hyperstudio project)

Page 37 Tie together online research and Letter Writing (Word Processing)

Page 42 A Lang. Arts lesson on "Citing Sources" and Plagiarism

Page 50 Before coming to the lab, build your (Hyperstudio) Storyboard

Page 56 Record keeping for group projects also worked on at home

Digital Education Network (ACTDEN) http://www.actden.com/

Quia Online quizzes http://www.quia.com