101Plus Classroom Ideas that Work with Students Using Information Technology Presenter : David Brear Computer Teacher, Centennial Secondary School, SD # 43, Coquitlam URL for the talk - http://members.shaw.ca/dbrear/101ideas.html Reviewed and updated September 22, 2006. | Objectives | First Steps | OnLine Resources | ICT Integration | Lesson Plans | Suggested Software | Multimedia Software | Internet Ideas | Web Page Design | Research Projects using the Internet | Spreadsheets | Database | Word Processing | Picture Ideas | Teacher Created | Multimedia Ideas | Concept Mapping | English | Science | Mathematics | Fun Stuff | Fun Stuff - Internet | Extra Ideas | Reference Books | Helpful Web Sites | Technology Resources |
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1) How to ... Jumpstart Internet Use - What to Include in Your Internet Training
2) Internet Sites that Work - over 3000 sites that you will find useful in your classroom.
3) Web Quests - link to extensive resources on WebQuests.Imported from the Internet
4) Using graphics from the Web in AppleWorks - Here find two ways to get the images from the Web and into an AppleWorks document.
Back to the Top 5) How a Web Page Works - the article looks at the art and science of Web pages using techniques you can try out on your own computer.
6) Create It 101; Basic HTML, Step by Step, Homepage Creation.
7) Lissa Explains it All - HTML help for kids
8) W3Schools - Full Web Building Tutorials - All Free !! You will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML, EXtensible HyperText Markup Language, to advanced XML, EXtensible Markup Language, XSL, eXtensible Stylesheet Language, Multimedia and WAP, Wireless Application Protocol.
9) School Web Pages - Find tips for developing your own content-rich, visually attractive webpage.Back to the Top Research Projects using the Internet
10) CIA World FactBook 2005 - a comprehensive source of information on all nations for creating a country report.
11) Animal Diversity Web - a comprehensive online encyclopedia containing information on just about every group within the animal kingdom. Great for animal research.
12)Animal Cams - large selection of Live Animal cams from Discovery.com.
13) Students Use Technology to Preserve Inuit Heritage - Students in Arviat, Nunavut, Canada, interviewed local elders and studied traditional skills as part of the Arviat Iglu project.
14) MaMaMedia.com - the number-one kids' brand born on the Internet. Here, kids discover by doing and create while clicking. The engaging activities help them gain technological fluency and expand their minds through playful learning. Great place for Trivia games.
15) Internet Scavenger Hunts for the Classroom - Scavenger Hunts can be a fun learning experience for kids and teachers.
Net Citations - how do we cite information from the Net
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16) Using the Spreadsheet Tool and making graphs - Here find a simple, but effective way to have children collect, organize and record data. As a final product they can make a bar, line, or pie graph.
17) Create Interactive Crossword Puzzles with Excel - learn how to create an interactive crossword puzzle using Microsoft Excel.
18) Using a Spreadsheet to organize volcano data - update the data presented at this site by going to Volcano World
19) Graphing air temperature, Dew Point Temperature and Relative Humidity
20) Make a Bingo Game with Appleworks - learn how to create a bingo game with AppleWorks.
21) Create Charts and Graphs with Excel - learn how to teach your students in grades 3-12 how to use Excel to create a chart or graph.Back to the Top
22) Setting up a class information database - here find the steps needed to create a class information database.
23) Making a Columnar list - here find the steps needed to create a columnar list.Back to the Top 24) Newsletters - Creating a 2 column newsletter
25) Create a School Newsletter with Word - learn how to create a class newsletter using Microsoft Word.
26) How to Make Trading Cards with Word - learn how to teach students to use Microsoft Word to create educational trading cards.Back to the Top
Picture Ideas and Graphic Programs
27) Picture Yourself Teaching Digitally - learn some simple ways you can use digital cameras in your K-8 classroom.
28) Art Projects - here find some nifty ideas, plus a few fun techniques for watercolor, exploring color, creativity and collages.
29) Art Tales - Telling Stories with Wildlife Art
30) Holidays - for the classroom
31) The different seasons - fall, winter, spring and summer
32) Computer Quilt Square in Kid Pix - students learn how to create quilt squares using the software program Kid Pix.
33) The Color Pencil Challenge - Art lessons from the experts
34) Make a Classroom Banner using Appleworks - learn how to create a banner for your classroom using AppleWorks.
35) Make a Poster with Excel - learn how to make a classroom poster using Microsoft Excel.
Bonus Resource - KidPix talk
Back to the Top 36) Portfolio Project Builder - allows intstructors, advisors and career counselors the opportunity to guide participants through the construction of a digital portfolio.
37) Practice Test for Students - from the Okanagan University College
38) e-Portfolio for Elementary Classrooms - developed by the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, Montreal. Innovative bilingual software designed to support the portfolio process in Canadian elementary schools.
39) Calendars - Free Printable Custom Calendars
40) Technology Reflection - a personal reflection
41) Technology Rubrics - Welcome to the "Technology Rubrics" Web page.
42) Make a PowerPoint Countdown Clock - learn how to make a countdown clock to help students stay on task during timed activities.Back to the Top 43) Publishing KidPix Files on the Web to Showcase Student Work - the steps that you need to take are explained here.
44) Creating a Kid Pix slide show - the steps that you need to take are explained here.
45) Six Simple Steps for Creating a Slideshow of Student Work on your Classroom Homepage - the steps that you need to take are explained here.
46) Creating Multimedia Projects - Multimedia student projects are constructed by using the computer to combine text, sound, graphics, and movies.
47) Student Portfolios - Creating student electronic portolios from the HyperStudio product Web site.
47a) Student Portfolios - Examples of Electronic Portolios using the software program, HyperStudio.
48) Let the Show Begin! - learn how to create a special event PowerPoint show.
49) Create an Interactive Map - learn how to make an interactive map using Microsoft Excel.
50) Narrating PowerPoint Slide Shows - learn how to record narration for PowerPoint slide shows.
51) Character in a Bag - Partners use clues from a bag to cooperatively develop a mystery character and produce a PowerPoint about that character.Back to the Top
Concept Mapping - a visual format that lends itself to a wide variety of interesting applications and products of unique design and personal value.
a) Mind Graph - graphic language to solve problems.
b) Graphic Organizers - Large Selection of Printable Graphic Organizers.
c) Inspiration Software - visual thinking and learning software used to develop the following in English and Science :Back to the Top 52) Parts of speech - explains not what the word is, but how the word is used.
53) Parts of speech - describes the parts of speech that define the English language.
54) Using Paint Tools in Pre-K-1 Classrooms - learn how to use Paint tools to enhance the development of literacy skills in young children.Back to the Top 55) Oceans Alive - what is in it
56) Exploring Leonardo - what did he do
57) Water - what makes it
58) Big Bang Theory - how did we start
59) EarthCom - Earth System Science in the Community
60) Solar System - what makes it up
61) Flight - How Things Fly
62) Salmon - map the life cycle
63) Chemical and Physical Properties and Changes - how does it all work
64) The Universe - where does it all fit ?
65) Class Pets - this site was created to give you some positive input and helpful ideas about animals in the classroom.
66) Virtual Pets - here find links for Gigapets, Tamagotchis, Nano and even a Sony robot.
67) Science Experiments - Professor Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, shares the fun of science through home science activities, demonstration shows, videos, and books. Information about these and other science fun stuff is available here.
68) Earth and Moon Viewer - You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment or you can also view the Moon from the Earth, Sun, night side or as a map showing day and night.
69) J - Track Satellite Tracking - easily keeps track of your favorite orbiting objects. You can choose from a fairly large list of satellites.
70) Hubble Space Telescope Pictures - this site offers a fantastic variety of images that were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
71) The Yuckiest Site on the Internet - focuses on the type of questions kids love to ask and adults hate to answer.
72) NASA Educational Web Sites - NASA's firm committment to education is refelcted in the numerous resources it offers on the World Wide Web. Check out this link to view fifteen educational programs and opportunities offered by NASA.Back to the Top 73) Using HyperStudio to make Tessellations - here find a step by step explanation of how to create Tessellations using HyperStudio.
74) Using AppleWorks and Tessallations in colour - here find a step by step explanation of how to create Tessellations using AppleWorks.
75) Make a Bingo Game with AppleWorks - learn how to create a bingo game with AppleWorks.
76) Graphing Real-Life Data
77) National Library of Math Manipulatives - here find a wide range of manipulatives for preK-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 levels. Each java applet includes instructions, a list of activities for the manipulatives, a Teacher/Parent link with detailed information including objectives, lesson plans, extensions, assessment materials and cross references.
78) Make an AppleWorks Graph Template - learn how to create a graph template in AppleWorks.Back to the Top Fun Stuff - Word Processing, Graphics and other Software
79) Flip Books - a series of drawings when flipped through smoothly shows animation.
80) Writing Storybooks With PowerPoint - learn how to teach your students to use Microsoft's PowerPoint as they create simple prompted stories.
81) Connect the dots - fill in the blanks for each letter of the alphabet and more.
82) Find the Word - Word Search Puzzles
83) Scrambled letters - Alphabet Codes
84) Ad-Libs - Fill in the blanks
85) Create an Adlib Story with Excel - learn how to create -- or teach students to create -- Adlib stories using Excel.
86) Cooking up a storm !! - Make a cookbook
87) Once Upon a Time - Story Chains
88) A Square Deal - How many squares can you find ?
89) Switch Zoo - here kids select a head, legs, or tail from nine different animals-from bear and bison to zebra and rhino-to build their own hybrid animal life form.
90) Alligators and Others All Year Long - A Book of Months
91) Instant Poetry - Just point, click, add words, and print out your creation!
92) Making a Timeline with Excel - learn how to use Microsoft Excel to create a simple timeline.
93) Puppets - example: scan book characters and cut them out and turn them into puppets for a play.
94) Bubbles - online resource, example, create your own wish bubbles.
95) Creating Word-by-Word Audio Books in PowerPoint - learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to make a word-by-word audio book.
96) Picture Book Learning - enhances children's education by inviting them to use popular children's picture books to master early elementary concepts such as comprehension, sentence writing, nouns, verbs, synonyms, antonyms, and contractions.
97) Student Literature Response Journal - this lesson provides a model of reflection for students as they listen to stories, begin to read stories, and develop their own written stories.
98) Response Journal - A reading response journal is a notebook in which you write about your reading. In it you communicate thoughts and feelings about the book you are reading.Back to the Top Blogging Basics:Creating Student Journels on the Web - learn what blogging is and how to create classroom blogs for you and your students.
99) Flat Stanley Project - The Flat Stanley Project is a group of teachers who want to provide students with another reason to write.
100) The Legend of Captain Dave's Lost Treasure - students can embark on this adventure from the Dauphin County Library System of Pennsylvania to solve puzzles of pirate history.
101) Treasure Hunt - an Internet-Based Treasure Hunt on Internet Search Strategies.
102) Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling ? - is a multidisciplinary science driven web-based ThinkQuest project developed by computer graphics students at high schools in the Bronx and Sweden, exploring the mystery of the Mona Lisa through scientific inquiry and presenting original music composed by Leonardo da Vinci.
103) Orca Odyssey - is a site about killer whales geared towards elementary aged children.
104) The Moonlit Road- Ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South, told by the region's most celebrated storytellers.
105) Stories of the Dreaming - Dreaming Online began as a project for schools led by Aboriginal story tellers. It is part of the Commonwealth Institute's Australia Dreaming program, a season of cultural, commercial and educational events to celebrate Australia.
106) Book Adventure - Book Adventure is a free, non-profit, kid-oriented, on-line reading program designed to encourage students in grades K-8 to read more often, for longer periods of time, with greater understanding.
107) Book Crossing - Encourage students to share the books they love -- and what they love about those books -- by participating in the BookCrossing project
108) A Journey to a New Land - This interactive exhibit from the Virtual Museum of Canada explores the Ice Age and the arrival of the first people in North America.
109) Goodnight Stories - is an interactive Web site where students can write endings to stories, choose different directions within a story, and fill in a "mad lib" structure to make a silly story.
110) Geography Action !! Sounds Project - What does your community sound like? As part of its ongoing conservation and awareness program, National Geographic is asking K-12 students to record and share the sounds of their own communities. "Cultures: The Sound of Place" -- the theme of this year's Geography Action project -- is designed to encourage students to explore how "language, music, and other aspects of the auditory environment give voice to the history, movement, and interaction of peoples around the world."
111) Get Off My Back - Heavy backpacks are an increasing concern, especially in middle school. Get Off My Back is a telecollaborative project in which students from around the globe can practice graphing, statistics, and other math skills as they determine whether their backpacks exceed the maximum recommended 15 percent of their total body weight.
112) Playwriting in the Round - In this round robin playwriting activity, classes work in groups of three to produce three one-act plays.
113) Project Poster - a free tool from the High Plains Research in Technology Consortium, allows students to display a project, such as a book report or science fair demonstration, online.
114) Comic Creator - Are you teaching about dialogue, narrative writing, or storyboarding? Check out this online tool from Read, Write, Think, a site sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the International Reading Association (IRA), and the MarcoPolo Foundation. Students can create one, two, three, or six panels of a comic strip, add characters, props, dialogue and background, and then print the entire project.
115) The Great Plant Escape - created by the University of Illinois Extension, teaches upper elementary students about basic botany concepts. Students join a carrot and pea pod named Bud and Sprout as they help Detective LeFleur solve any of six plant-related mysteries.
116) The Art Zone - from the National Gallery of Art provides several tools that allow kids to create art interactively. The site includes a Collage Machine; PixelFace, an interactive portrait maker and drawing board; Cubits, a geometric sculpture maker; 3-d Twirler, for designing and texturizing three-dimensional shapes; Diamonds; and RiverRun, where "young children orchestrate a flowing array of colorful shapes and patterns."
117) Explor-a-Pond - In this online collaborative project, students adopt a nearby pond, learn about pond ecology, and collaborate with students around the world to solve mathematical and scientific problems related to what they learn. Students who don't live near an actual pond can create a virtual one by completing the online simulation.
118) GeoGame - Students use maps, atlases, and other reference materials to match descriptions of a variety of locations to the names of the corresponding cities.Back to the Top
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Teacher's INTERNET COMPANION - 3rd Edition, by Ann Heide
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