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coollessons.org Enjoy the educational links below! Click here to jump down to research help for students Shortcut to Graduate Classes, Presentations, Workshops, etc. |
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COOL TEACHING LESSONS This link is a treasure chest for teachers. It will save many hours of your time finding quality lesson plans and units. |
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Educational Units Grades 5-12 The teaching units formally spotlighted on this web page have been moved to this link. |
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Please see the following links on what your students should know about validity and reliability of Internet information: Right & Wrong on the Information Highway; Redefining Literacy; The Web-Teaching Zack To Think; The Web - Dark Shadows; Evaluating web sites as potential resources; The Media Awareness Network; How Do I Know Stuff on the Internet is True? ; and Resources Related to Ethics and Digital Information. For
information on Internet safety go to Acceptable Use
Policies & Internet Safety from HPR*TEC and www4Teachers These links are lessons for your students on evaluating Internet Information: QUICK (Quality Information Checklist), Thinking about the Five W's of Web Site Evaluation (click here for active links for the Five W's page) and Internet Detectives. For techniques on searching the Internet, try the Internet Search Tutorial, Four Nets Towards Better Searching, Four NETS for Better Searching, Locating and Evaluating Information on the Internet and Web Search Engines FAQS. For teaching your students why copyright should be respected and how to cite electronic resources, try Cyberspace Copyrights, How to Cite Web Pages, Copyright in an Electronic Environment, and Citing Electronic Sources from the Library of Congress. For example of middle and high school
level units and lessons that teach information literacy, try the
21st Century Information Fluency
Research Projects from the Also, please remember that "Copying and pasting are the enemy of understanding." The quote is from Dr. Jaimie McKenzie and I heartily agree. Read his article Grazing the Net about this issue. Students learn much more if they summarize and make abstracts of the information they get from the following resources instead of printing entire web pages for notes that they may not even read. |
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KidInfo Student Index is a great starting point for students to do research by subject |
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Ask for Kids is a kid friendly place to ask a question |
| KidsClick is an annotated searchable directory of websites created for kids by librarians. Searchable by subject, reading level and degree of picture content. |
| Answers.com is a place to find information for students & teachers |
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42eXplore section of Eduscapes.com has information,
definitions, links, and other resources on many frequently investigated
topics for students |
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FirstGov for Kids and Ben's Guide to U.S. Government have links to United States Government kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. These are especially suitable for elementary and middle school students |
| FactMonster.com has a dictionary, atlas, encyclopedia and an almanac |
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The Awesome Library organizes the Web with "31,000 carefully reviewed resources including the top 5 percent in education" |
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References from Dr. Norman Labush has a variety of excellent student resources for K-8 |
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BJ
Pinchbeck’s Homework Help from The |
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Ask an Expert- Would you like to ask an expert while doing research? This kid-friendly site is a directory of links to those who have volunteered their time to answer questions Suggestions to parents and
teachers: |
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Virtual Facts Online has encyclopedias, atlases, biographies and much, much more, brought to you by the refdesk.com which is a source of many other reference materials) |
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The American
Memory collection from the Library
of Congress is a source of much of |
| Digital History offers a variety of ways for students and teachers to actually do history |
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America's Story from |
| Education Resources by Subject from the Education Index is "a topic-by-topic breakdown of the best sites on the World Wide Web" |
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Teach the Children Well is a collection of links to sites selected by a teacher, Elaine M. Doolittle, mostly for elementary grade students |
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FirstGov is the gateway to all 20,000 |
| Martindale's The Reference Desk and Frank Porter's Science Gems includes just about everything you've ever wanted to know. Some entries are very technical and some of the information is best suited for high school students because of reading level |
| Library of Links from the Landmark Project has a tremendous number of research links and databases. Look in the blue rectangle at the left |
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For older students, Ask.com, Answers.com, are better for students than two of the most powerful search engines to be found. Google and All the Web |
| Google Maps allows you to find an satellite photograph, a map or a combination of the two. Locate your house, school, town, and the places you've read about. Terra Server allows you to find aerial photographs and topographic maps. Combine these with information from the Census Bureau and there isn't much you can't find out about a particular place. Lastly, if you haven't installed Google Earth (licensed free for educational use) on your computer, you are missing out on wonderful geography, science and social studies learning opportunities. |
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"If
you bring in these (new) technologies and don't think ahead to how they'll
be used to promote learning and the acquisition of skills, then the only
thing that will change in school is the electric bill”.
David Thornburg Graduate Classes Aurora (IL) University Graduate Course / District U-46 Workshop: Technlogy/Clsrm Applications: Technology - Enhanced Lesson OEDS 5639 Fall 2007 (This is an online course through CaseNEX.com)
Presentations IL-TCE Technology Conference February 27, 2003 PowerPoint Presentation ------ Nuts & Bolts: Meaningful Classroom Integration of Information Technology or try here
Workshops St.
Catherine of Siena School Staff Development Program Spring 2003 Heritage
Elementary Staff Development Workshops Spring 2003 St. Joseph School
Educational Web Page SS. Peter and Paul
School Aug. 2002 Workshop District U-46 Workshop United Streaming I Winter & Spring 2006 District U-46 Workshop United Streaming II Winter & Spring 2006 Resources TLCF Grant FY '02 Weather Units, Lessons and Resources This page was last updated 9 This site is for non-profit, educational use only. Please give credit for any coollessons.org page used. If you have any comments, questions or resources you would like to see added to these pages, contact Richard Levine, Cool Lessons Educational Consulting, comments@coollessons.org Disclaimer: This site provides teachers, students and parents with these links simply as a starting point for them to explore the vast resources of the Internet. The sites that are listed within this page are individually responsible for the content and accuracy of the information found in their site. As always, the best filter is human supervision. |
