Office of Technology Integration Coordinator
Steve Thissell
Pinkerton Academy
5 Pinkerton Street
Derry, NH 03038
Curriculum Integration
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Integrating
Technology into Curriculum
Online
Resources
This part of the Groton Public Schools Copyright Implementation Manual (CIM)
directs copyright users to the wealth of copyright and fair use information on
the Internet
http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm
Charles Moore's photographs, originally published in Life magazine, chronicle the civil rights movement demonstrations,
marches, and activities in the U.S. south from 1962 to 1965.
Photographs are in these sections:
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Ole Miss
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Birmingham
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Freedom Marching
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Voter registration
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Ku Klux Klan
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Martin Luther King
Links to resources selected for students and teachers of American Studies are
in these categories:
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American Studies
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History
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Literature
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Popular Culture
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Demographics
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Material culture
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Anthropology, Sociology, Folklore
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Maps, Geography
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Government, Politics
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Visual Arts
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Religion
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Electronic Texts
Daily Grammar offers an archive of English language grammar lessons. You may
also sign up for e-mail messages with grammar lesson five days of the week and
a quiz on the sixth day
Learning Network is a series of websites joined together by their ability to
serve you, the learner. The best selection of educational resources for you to
enjoy, with an initial focus on teachers and parents of K-12 students. The K-12
section of the store is filled with books, software, toys and games, videos,
music, and activities, along with guidance, techniques, and online programs to
make your role as teacher or parent (or both) easier. Devoted entirely to the
unique learning needs of K-12 students, parents, and teachers, our content is
organized by grade level (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12) and by subject (math,
reading, etc.). Learning Network for K-12 is the most trusted and safest place
to connect with other students, parents, and teachers: this online destination
and its content are endorsed by nearly every major K-12 organization in the
United States. Joining textbook publishers, authors, teachers, parent groups,
incentive programs, resources, and customized tools, Learning Network for K-12
is the Internet's most popular source for all elementary and secondary school
needs.
Short Stories at East of the Web
Full-text of classic short stories are offered in these categories:
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Fiction
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Horror
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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Romance
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Crime
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Humour
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Children
Teaching with Movies contains guides to more than 180 films. Most good movies
explore moral and social questions. Each Learning Guide will list these themes
and will suggest ways to open relevant discussions that will enhance a child's
developing character. Teaching with Movies can help you enlist parents as
active participants in their children's education and is an ideal introduction
to the concept of "intentional parenting." Learning Guides to each
recommended film describe the benefits of the movie, possible problems, and
helpful background. Discussion questions, bridges to reading, projects and
links to the internet are also provided
M.U.S.I.C. promotes the educational use of songs by teachers in all subject
areas hence, extending the use and study of songs beyond traditional general
music programs. Songs are a timeless expression of the human experience. They
capture the history of events, ideas, and people that have shaped our
pluralistic society. Song lyrics are an excellent teaching tool, that will
engage, excite and motivate young people. The creative process of analyzing and
interpreting song lyrics helps students to develop essential research, writing,
critical thinking, and media literacy skills. This site includes lesson plans
and links to other music sites
The NCC was established by Congress through the Constitution Heritage Act of
1988, as an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. NCC was
established to increase awareness and understanding of the US Constitution, the
Constitution's history, and the Constitution's relevance to our daily lives so
that all of us -- "We the People" -- will better understand and
exercise our rights and our responsibilities. This site brings you the
Constitution, other historical documents, teachers resources, and recent news
and events.
The Trails Project
The Trails project is an educational model for integrating technology into the
curriculum and learning experiences of the student. This unique project uses
the backdrop and rugged beauty and rich history of the Sante Fe and Oregon
Trails to accomplish its goals. An important focus of this project is to help
teachers to learn to utilize these mediums for student-directed development of
skills for exploration, content mastery, and collaborative work. This site
includes diary entries of emigrants on the trail and lesson plans for teachers.
English Resources
This site provides free resources to English Teachers whilst offering more than
a little help to their students. It includes complete lesson plans on certain
books, poetry, and authors. They provide free resources for teaching and
revising English Language and Literature and there are now well over 200
resources to download! It is also a great insight for the British Educational
system with links to current news articles telling what is the latest
happenings are in British Education
Sitesforteachers.com is a list of the best teacher's resource and educational
sites on the net. Sitesforteachers.com contains only links to sites that
contain teacher's resource and educational material and the sites are ranked by
popularity. No more surfing countless pages to find the occasional
"good" site. Also, sitesforteachers.com doesn't just allow any site
on the list. Sitesforteachers.com has strict rules for the listed webmasters
"Using a common, standards-based methodology, natural heritage programs
share information on endangered plants, animals and ecological communities that
make up our planet's biodiversity. Collectively these programs are known as the
Natural Heritage Network... Conservation of biodiversity depends on good
information, or data. Natural Heritage Programs work to provide answers, or
data, to these questions:
What Species and Natural Communities Exist?
Where are these Species and Vegetative Communities?
How are they faring?
Why do we need the data?"
PinkMonkey.Com
PinkMonkey provides study resources to Junior high, high school, college and
home school students. Resources include over 300 booknotes, several study
guides, fifteen on-line text books and a link to over 2,000 full-text classics.
Animal Pictures Archive
An extensive archive of animal photos, videos, and sound clips. Pictures of
almost every animal, insect, or reptile you can think of. The images are
intended for personal or educational rather than commercial use, copyright
permission is very important.
AskArt.com is a database of over 23,000 American
artists. It is an educational and professional resource of digital images,
biographical documentation, book references, auction data. It also provides an
opportunity to engage in open forum dialogue on the subject of American artists.
The original goal of this database was to help
dealers estimate art prices. Search results on artists include bar charts that
illustrate the selling history of their art work.
http://www.canisius.edu/~emeryg/time.html
Explore vocational and technical careers, check out
the skills employers really want, find a school, research technical topics and
take a look at the current job market within the Vocational Information Center.
http://www.geocities.com/soarcatb/index.html
PROMOTING
BETTER COMMUNICATION
We believe that with better communication comes better learning, so we have
created the tools to foster communication as well as simplify classroom
management. Our goal is to create a virtual meeting place online for teachers,
students and parents.
http://www.thelearningworkshop.com/
Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources
library is filled with educational content created
for you, by people like you. Search or browse the library to find lessons and
links on a variety of subjects.
http://www.kiko.com/find/index.jsp
CourseServer is FCD's revolutionary Web-hosted math
problem generator. It allows you to select from thousands of different problem
types and then automatically generates problem sheets and answers sheets which
appear in your browser and can be printed.
http://www.fairbanks.org/FairShare/CourseServer/courseserver.html
Become more aquainted with your state's standards
http://teachers.gotschool.com/search/StandardsSearchForm.jsp
Welcome to FirstGov, the world wide web information
portal for the United States Federal Government. FirstGov is intended to be
your first resource to find any government information on the Internet, with
topics ranging from business and economy to money and benefits to science and
technology - and everything in between!
http://www.fno.org/toolbox.html
Quick Guide to Windows 98, Part I
http://www.psihealth.net/win98/index.html
100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/gloria.html
The Biography Maker
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm
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The
Exploding Dictionary Greetings, and welcome to The Exploding Dictionary.
The basic idea was to take a set of publicly available dictionaries, index
them into a SQL database, and then cross-reference them to near death |
The Facts on the Salem Witch Trials
http://school.discovery.com/conversations/getthefacts.html
In the spring of 1996, the founders of Education
World recognized the need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier
for educators to use.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr319.shtml
FunBrain.com enables teachers to integrate games and
thousands of assessment quizzes into their daily lesson plans
http://funbrain.com/teachers/signup.html
announces a new electronic reference
resource,American Women's History: An Online Encyclopedia. Included in this resource are biographies, historical and
topical entries, maps, tables and charts, historical documents and speeches,
photographs and a hyperlinked timeline. Topics range from abortion to the
Women's Liberation Movement. Keyword, topic, year and custom searches are
available. For more information, visit www.factsonfile.com
Multimedia rages on! Lou Doss and Glenn
Gurley of Gaston County supply the following 21 primers to make your PowerPoint
content sparkle.
http://www.teachers-connect.net/cc/99-00/advpp.htm
Places to go for help with
student plagiarism, how to identify it,
what to do when it
happens, how to prevent it.
http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html
Grades 6-12 - Here's a collection of math puzzles,
magic squares, and the like presented by the cryptographers at the National
Security Agency. This is a nice collection of interactive math activities that
require some real thought. These puzzles are surprisingly kid-friendly, though
some of the screen interface is a little rough. Well worth a visit.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/autoframe.htm?http://www.nsa.gov/programs/kids/standard/index.shtml
This tutorial introduces you to Webquests - an
internet activity which lets you create something useful for your students
while increasing your web "comfort level" at the same time
http://www.teachersfirst.com/summer/webquest/quest-a.shtml
http://fno.org/techtopten.html
The expedition team is in the Sahara Desert
http://www.projectexploration.org/
The expedition team is in the Sahara
Desert to recover a 600-toothed
dinosaur. Learn about life in the field
and witness discoveries as they
happen with Dinosaur Expedition 2000.
Curriculum Guide Activities
http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/PBLGuide/Activities/AssessActivites.html
Co-nect
http://exchange.co-nect.net/Teleprojects/
Co-nect offers
7 projects for
students to participate in. One
of my favorites is The Underground
Railroad Project. They also
offer a mentoring program but you must have
students signed up by Oct.
31st. Check it out!
Technology Supports for Project-Based Learning
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/SER/Technology/ch8.html If you are
looking for
sites with good examples of
projects - this site has that!
The Department of Space Physics
http://space.rice.edu/hmns/
The Department of Space Physics and
Astronomy at Rice University
has created the first online, up-to-date,
digital museum accessible to
the general public, by constructing six
interactive displays of
real-time earth and space science data,
developed and tested at the
Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) and
now available for other museums
and schools around the country. This is
made possible by a grant from
NASA .
Center for Science Education
http://www.edc.org/CSE/projects/destech.html If you are not
familiar
with the Center for Science
Education, dig into this site. This link
will take you to ideas for
implementing engineering skills into the
classroom or afterschool
program.
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/projects/ Updated projects
monthly you
can get students involved in.
Currently listing 11 or 12 projects.
Continental Acedemics
http://www.cord.org/lev3.cfm/158
Applied
physics activities ready to
download!
Kids Voting
http://www.kidsvotingusa.org/students.html Another site with
activities
related to voting.
Ocean Futures
http://www.oceanfutures.org/moreof.html Ocean Futures is a
non-profit
organization whose mission is
to provide the global community with a
forum for exploring issues
affecting the ocean, its inhabitants, and its
habitats. Ocean Futures reaches
out to people throughout the world,
helping them to understand our
global water system, take personal
responsibility for the
restoration and preservation of precious marine
habitats, and mobilizing them
to protect the ocean and its inhabitants.
Teachers and/or students can
receive a newsletter plus they have some
projects that could be
developed further.
Surfing for ABC's Published Project
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/abc/ Here is an example
of K-1st graders work on a project and lots of fun sites. Very easy to
replicate! Isn't that generally
a criteria - we should be more
comfortable mimicking what
others have done successfully. We don't have
to reinvent the wheel. Be sure
and click on the link for Projects that
Connect if you want to see more
projects ready to go!
Curriculum Links, Info, Writings
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/8314/ gridst.htm Check
out this
site if you want to help your
teachers integrate the Internet into the
classroom. Ontario Elem. School
has done a great job of linking to
wonderful lesson plans by grade
level and specific strands.
http://wings.ucdavis.edu/
The K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
featuring 3 levels of lesson
plans, a vast array of activities, built-in
quizzes, etc. If you are trying
to get coaches interested in using
technology in the classroom,
esp. if they are a math teacher, go to the
link for Tennis!
True Value.com
http://www.truevalue.com
What a great site for teaching real world math
or science. A creative teacher
could have a hay day with this site.
Visit projects and see what you
can create as a class activity.
Zoom Dinosaurs.com
http://www.allaboutdinosaurs.com/subjects/dinosaurs/
If you are
familiar with Zooms sites -
this is one of them! If you are not
familiar with Zoom make sure
you scroll all the way down to the bottom
of the page. There are links to
sharks, whales, butterflies,
rainforest, astronomy, and
birds. Elementary teachers tend to love this
site!
4teachers.org
http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/checklist.shtml
South Central
Regional Technology in
Education Consortium has created some great
documents to help teachers as
they create projects. They offer
checklist by grade and by
subject and the templates allow for some
customization. this is a great
reference if you are doing a professional development piece on project based
learning.
TeachersFirst WebQuests
http://www.teachersfirst.com/webquest-f.htm
WebQuests reated by Buncombe County School Staff
http://eclipse.co.buncombe.k12.nc.us/public/webquests.html
* TCEA Leadership Symposium Curricular Integration
Contains 100's of addresses for using technology in
classroom
http://www.startel.net/users/kathyk/tceals.html#webquest
Webquests & Other Internet Projects
http://www.esc20.net/etprojects/default.html
Welcome to Creating Web-based Lessons: Webquests
& Other Internet Projects! This page is designed to model how productivity
tools and Internet-based research can fit into the information problem-solving
process, especially when using web-based lessons such as webquests, and others.
Classroom Resources
Technology Curriculum Integration Ideas!
http://server.remc11.k12.mi.us/bcisd/classres/intideas.htm
The National Educational Computing Conference's
Teacher Rated Top Ten Sites:
1.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for
Educators--Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet
found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.
2.
Blue Web'n--This is a library of blue-ribbon educational sites on the
web---has a vast number of lesson plans listed by area.
3.
Apple
Computer's Education Site--Great listings of
seminars and events, teaching and learning sites, a learning interchange, and
disability resources.
4.
Classroom Connect--This is the home of some of the best web quests on the
Internet as well as a repository for educational resources and Internet based
lesson plans.
5.
CNN--All the news updated every half hour. Personalize the CNN
site to display only the news that's important to you and your classes.
6.
The Global
Schoolhouse--Connect
with other classrooms around the world; find interesting global learning
projects; build, promote, and conduct your own original projects through this
site.
7.
The
Chalkboard--This is the place to get up-to-date
information on free education resources (things for class, lesson plans,
materials, grants, tours, workshops, etc.) offered by corporations.
8.
Instructor Magazine--You'll find absolutely wonderful ready-to-use
reproducible lessons for your classes here.
9.
Library
of Congress--More than just books! Site has
extensive primary source documents in digital form.
10. GlobaLearn--Live, interactive
expeditions for students around the world
M How can a Web Quest help me with my class and curriculum?...
http://www.harwich.edu/depts/lmcelm/wbqsthow.htm
Mel's MegaLinks: Technology Integration : Web Quests
http://edforum.adventist.org/megalinks/Technology_Integration/Web_Quests/
Web Quest Sites:
http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/barleylibrary/library/tchr/tr3.htm
How can a Web Quest help me with my class and curriculum?...
http://www.harwich.edu/depts/lmcelm/wbqsthow.htm
Microsoft Lesson Connection is a set of tools
designed to help teachers nationwide search for lesson plans matching their
local and state curriculum standards. Created by Microsoft Corp. in
collaboration with Tudor Publishing Company and Classroom Connect, Lesson Connection
helps search through tens of thousands of online lesson plans. Teachers can
embed search criteria based on Gateway to Educational Materials standard
subjects and topic keywords in their own Web-based curriculum standard
documents. When a teacher clicks on a hyperlink inserted in the document,
Microsoft Site Server-based technology searches through lesson plans indexed
from multiple sites on the Internet. Visit the site at www.k12.msn.com.
Established by the U.S. Department of Education, Eisenhower National Clearinghouse (ENC)
online provides K‑12 math and science educators with a central source of
information about teaching materials, innovative ideas and professional
development. The content of the page is divided into four categories, including
Curriculum Resources, Web Links, Professional Resources and Topics.
This site offers free, direct access to a
comprehensive set of teaching materials for use in both K‑12 and higher
education. Instructors can search for resources by grade level, subject, Adobe
product, or type of material. Shared discussions among educators are encouraged
with a "faculty club," where teachers can post questions and topics.
Instructional and curriculum guides can be shared among peers in the
"exchange forum." In addition, educators receive premier‑level
support at a 50% discount, and instructors taking part in the Adobe Certified Expert Program can gain credit for sharing
their knowledge about Adobe products.
This free online destination provides resources on
products, services, and the instruction of the Spanish language in English.
Hundreds of companies and organizations that supply all types of products ‑
from textbooks and videos, to Latin food and immigration help ‑are
available. SpanishUs.com also provides bilingual learning exercises and
activities for instructors to use in class and for students to practice at home.
Step inside PowerPointers.com. A site dedicated
to helping you communicate more effectively in your presentations. Must sign up
as a member.
The workshops are targeted
at K-12 educators, including teachers, administrators, computer coordinators,
librarians and media specialists. Workshops are suitable for all levels of
Internet proficiency. Thirteen/WNET, New York, NY, www.wnet.org/wnetschool.
proprietary resources, curriculum-based content, and
educator-reviewed search results. The portal helps teachers find high-quality
educational content, tools and projects for the classroom. , www.lightspan.com.
http://www.notationstation.net
The Web School is Dell's newest
addition to its K‑12 site, an online resource for educators who want to
go back to school (virtually) to expand their knowledge of the Internet and
its uses within the classroom. The Web School is designed to help teachers jump‑start
their creative thinking about ways to bring classroom instructionto life.
Educators who en‑, roll are given a resource to help them learn the
internet in order to conduct research, develop lesson plans, and facilitate classroom
discussions. Dell developed the Web School after a recent 'Dell‑commissioned
study determined that students believe the internet will have a significant
impact on their professional lives. The company hopes to bring teachers along
in the internet learning curve so they, in turn, can help students prepare for
careers that undoubtedly will require some use of technology and the internet.
Imagine the Universe Lesson Plans
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/lesson_plans.html
http://developers.ivv.nasa.gov/educate/nasa_edu.html
NASA's Education Division provides educational programs
and materials for teachers and students from the elementary to the university
levels. The NASA Teacher Resource Center Network, a dissemination mechanism to
provide educators with NASA educational materials, is one of the programs that
has helped science and mathematics teachers over the years.
NASA's Education Division provides these resources
for educators:
·
Teacher Resource
Center Network
·
Regional Teacher
Resource Centers
·
Central Operation of
Resources for Educators
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/map/mapintro.html
Composed of selected Americana and cartographic
treasures of the Library of Congress, Map Collections: 1544-1996 has
seven major categories: cities and towns, conservation and environment, discovery
and exploration, Cultrual Landscape, military battles and campaigns,
transportation and communication, and general maps. Within these categories,
there are smaller collections: Panoramic Maps, Mapping the National Parks, Maps
of Liberia, and Railroad Maps
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
A free educational resource,
tutorialfind.com is a search engine designed for anyone wishing to find
tutorials on the Internet. Content ranges from advanced computer software to
materials for learning a new language. Search requests, a monthly newsletter
and a tutorial notification service are also offered at no charge to the user.
Have you ever visited
EduHound.com, a division of T.H.E. Journal? If not, it's a must see. Our award
winning web site makes Internet user-friendly for educators with an
easy-to-navigate site, featuring 15,000 K-12 educational links
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
http://www.itsco.org/webquest/gallery.html
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/
Dr. Lawrence Tomei and Margaret Balmert
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A2964.cfm
http://mis.bus.sfu.ca/tutorials/MSAccess/tutorials.html
http://www.teachersfirst.com/cnt-lit-f.htm
http://minot.com/~nansen/HotSpots.html
http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/
http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/links/teacher.html
Mr. Juster is an English teacher at Londonderry High
School. Excellent web site for English teachers.
is intended for the introduction and use of
Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at
the university level. It is being offered as a comprehensive showcase, virtual
library and reference tool containing highly useful Internet/Web resources
including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards,
listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers,
among many other types of information
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