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Educational Units
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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Quality
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 and Surf Swell Island, a
game for younger students from Disney 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, What Can I Use 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 Illinois Math Science Academy. 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 |
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KidsClick
is an annotated searchable directory of websites created for
kids by librarians. Searchable by subject, reading level and degree of
picture content. |
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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 |
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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
Discovery Channel School is for anyone
who hasn’t found help yet. You will find it here! |
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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 America's history in the form of words, images and sounds |
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Digital History offers
a variety of ways for students and teachers to actually do history |
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America's Story from America's Library (the Library of Congress) has biographies, history, geography (states) and more |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. 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. |
