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COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS ALONG WITH RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS from coollessons.org Short Cuts: |
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Some personal notes about this web page: It is designed as a resource for
teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all
subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes
engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules and Project-Based
Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials.
Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some
examples of sources to help students do research. Rich Levine, Cool Lessons Educational Consulting |
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All Grades - All Subjects WebQuest Search Page from the WebQuest Home Page by Dr. Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University. Or search “Example WebQuests” from the same site. Jackie Carrigan's WebQuest Collection created by her graduate students Indiana University School of Education at Indianapolis at are sorted by subject area or by grade level (K-12). (The link is provided from www.archive.org) New Mexico State
University WebQuests designed by students in the Learning Technologies
Program at NMSU and by teachers and faculty at NMSU involved in an NSF funded
project called SpaceQuests
from the WebQuests and Resources for Teachers in History, Social Studies and Science, mostly for upper middle school and high school students by Paul Hewitt at Davison (MI) High School. Our Lady of Peace School WebQuests in Quebec contains a sampling of some of the best WebQuests mostly for elementary and middle school students, as well as other engaged learning projects. WebQuest
Assortment from The Northern Trails Area ( WebQuests Units
are teacher generated WebQuests from Aurora (IL) University and WebQuests Created By Milford (CT) Teachers for elementary, middle and high school learners. . WebQuest Collection from EduHound.com has links to collections of WebQuests as well as some individual ones. Featured Projects are WebQuests sorted by grade level from participants in San Diego Public Schools Technology Challenge Grants. Showcased WebQuests for grades 6-12 in Session1, Session2 and Session3 from San Diego Public Schools Triton Project. Memphis City Schools WebQuests written by teachers for grades 3-9 (The link is currently provided from www.archive.org). WebQuest Index WebQuest Collection
from WebQuests1998 and WebQuests 1999 from Internet Innovations.
WebQuests
and Other Internet Based Projects from ESC 20 ( Dr. Alice Christie's
Matrix of 175 WebQuests written by her WebQuests Created by
Students in Lee Ehman's W210 Class, 1998 Through 2002 W210: Survey
in Computer-Based Louisiana State
University WebQuests developed by students as a part of the requirements
for the course EDAF 5880, Telecommunications and the Internet under the
guidance of Professor Harriet Taylor, Welcome to the
World of WebQuests is a collection indexed by Cheryl Davis, Hazelwood
(MO)
Student WebQuest
Projects from Jim Chiavacci's EDT 525 Telecommunications Class at More WebQuests an assortment of quality individual WebQuests that I’ve found and think need to be showcased. WebQuest
Resources from the Learning
with Webquests by education students taught by Dr. Patricia
Stohr-Huntin Computers in the Classroom (EDUC 343), A Matrix of WebQuests
created in Neal Strudler's ICG 767: Telecommunications in Education, Collections
are links to a number of collections of WebQuests available on the Internet
assembled by Bill Byles and Susan Brooks of WebQuests by Australian
WebQuests is a list of links supplied by WebQuests and Lesson Plans for 4th and 5th Grades is a fine selection of WebQuests. WebQuests from Berks County Intermediate Unit has collections of WebQuests for a variety of subjects. WebQuests compiled by Debbie Rollins are listed by subject matter and grade level (the majority for 9-12, but some for earlier grades). These are also referenced to the Virginia Standards of Learning. Fort Wayne (IN) Community Schools WebQuest Lessons compiled by Clayton E. Owen are listed by grade level and subject matter. The
EMPOWER project WebQuests developed by the grades 9-12 teachers and
students at in the WebQuest from Shelby County (TN) Schools for grades 9-12. Stonewall Elementary
School Collection ( Manteno (IL) School District's WebQuest Web Site for elementary through high school levels. TechTrac WebQuests (there
are two tables of WebQuests at this site) from Unity
Point School's (IL) Goals 2000 Consolidated Grant WebQuests for
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These units do not quite follow the WebQuest format, but they have the same philosophy of engaged learning. On-Line
Research Modules (K-12) by teachers in American Memory
Fellows Lessons are quality units (the lesson are indexed by Theme,
Topic, Discipline or Era or by Title) based on studies of The Learning Curve from the British National Archives is their version of the American Memory lessons. Of the different sections check out: SNAPSHOTS which has students analyze British historical photos and illustrations and synthesize meaning; EXHIBITIONS which has students investigate themes using primary historical materials; and FOCUS ON which has students learn skills necessary to use historical primary material. The units tend to be structured, and yet still emphasize higher level thinking skills. The British National Archive did a great job with these. The Digital Classroom: Primary Sources and Activities from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States has history and civics lessons based upon primary documents. Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory in Oak Brook (IL) and Fermilab has quality units for elementary through high school levels. Curriculum - Based Research Modules which "culminates in an instructionally sound curriculum - based activity designed to have the students demonstrate an understanding of the information through the development of a technology- based product." They were created by teachers in the Loyola College Graduate Program and by Gifted and Talented Resource Teachers in Howard County, MD. Research Modules for grades K-12 have well constructed learning adventures for your students. There are also links to many other learning modules at the bottom of the site. The modules were made by teachers in Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, Maryland. Exploring the Environment are cool interactive science units for students grades 5-12 created by Wheeling Jesuit University / NASA Classroom of the Future. Civics Online provides primary sources and interactive activities to help in the teaching of civics. This site was designed by Lansing, Michigan area K-12 teachers and faculty at Michigan State University. In my opinion, these lessons show what good teaching is all about. Grand Prairie
Research Modules (3-12) from the
Curricula,
Lessons and Activities from ArtsEdge and the Web-based
Lessons and Projects (6-10) developed by teachers in
Wikipedia: School and University Projects has a forum to publish your
student research. Can your class do a better job of researching and
publishing than what exists presently on
Wikipedia? Make sure
you read
What
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The point of online projects is to have your
students learn using internet resources in a way that would be very difficult
to do without the internet. For example, want to have your students find out
about other states? Why not get them involved with children in other schools
across the nation to decide which landmark (or city, or national park, or
river) in their state is the most important and why. These discussions
between kids from classrooms in different parts of the nation (or world!)
makes for truly engaged learning. Research has shown that students put much more effort into such activities than if they are done for others besides their teacher. In my mind, this section shows best practice using technology. Global SchoolNet's Internet Projects Registry contains on-line projects created by teachers that your students can do with other classes around the world. This "gold standard" (in my opinion) site also contains a search engine to locate the perfect on-line project for your class and a way to receive information of future projects via e-mail. Using "Join or Browse Hilites" link, join the Hilites mailing list to receive notification of upcoming projects in your email as they are posted. KIDPROJ is a part of KIDLINK "where teachers and youth group leaders from around the world plan activities and projects for students and other kids age 5 to 15 to take part in." This is the home of "Who Am I?”, "I Have a Dream "and other internet-based projects where students write for and work with students from other schools. While at the KIDPROJ site, either click on the name of a project or Curriculum Ideas and Projects at the left of the page. Online Activities from Scholastic.com (mostly K-8) has web-based activities and projects. This is a wonderful resource for teachers with lots of quality and engaging ways to learn for your students. Online Projects from Global SchoolNet allows your students to accompany explorers and adventures as they go on these virtual field trips as well as to write notes to them. The Collaboratory
is a web-based collaborative environment that teachers use to develop
project-based activities that are linked to Blue Web'N Projects has a list of projects divided by subject matter in the column at the right. Project Center from The Teachers.Net Chatboard Network has a variety of projects. While at this site, the “Project Center” is in the lower middle column. You can keep your students very busy and interested with the creative projects at the links under the Project Center. Check out the Project Switchboard for discussions on developing your own online project. EPals.com provides a source of class-to-class and group projects using the internet, as well as lists of classrooms in various countries who would be willing to communicate with your class. You can search for classrooms without registering by clicking on “Find Classrooms” at the left. If you would like to connect with a classroom you need to register (for free). iEarn "is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world" Internet Projects from the Community Learning Network has seventeen links to internet based projects. SchoolWorld Internet Education Projects has a variety of internet-based projects and programs for K-12. You can find the link for the famous Flat Stanley Project here. Education Place Project Center sponsored by the Houghton Mifflin Co. has on-line projects by subject. Online Activities contains a long list of good projects and ideas for all grades. It was created by Dr. Marty Levine, California State University, Northridge. Intercultural Email Classroom Connections is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges. Global Grocery List Project is a "long standing project that generates real, peer collected data for student computation, analysis, and conclusion-building within the context of social studies, science, mathematics and other disciplines". MidLink Magazine is a cool digital magazine by students from 8 to 18. There are projects for your students to do and then they can write about their experiences. Global Story Train is an online, illustrated, collaborative story project that encourages elementary school kids from all nations to work together in writing and illustrating communal stories. Each completed story train comprises three cars -- a beginning, middle and end -- all written and illustrated by different kids. Online Projects from CIESE: Need your students (K-12) to "focus on improved understanding of science, mathematics and other subject areas"? You will like this assortment of quality math and science related collaborative projects, some of which use real time data. Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ) has done wonderful things here. Some of the projects are in Spanish. GrassRoots is a Canadian project center in which you can participate in projects or propose your own. There are excellent ideas here. Join an On Line Project has an extensive list of on-line projects (K-12). This site was developed by Tammy Payton of Loogootee (IN) Community Schools. Online Projects is another extensive list of on-line activities. This site was developed by the AT&T Learning Network. (The link is provided from www.archive.org) Field Trips Site provides "on-line field trips that take you to places that until now you could only dream about, and teach you things you might not otherwise learn." (Grades 2-12) Telecollaborate is a source of other online projects. Included is information about some of the technical questions you may have about on line projects. This is the home of the famous “Signs of Autumn – Signs of Spring” project, for which you should register ASAP. The Pacific
Bell Education First Videoconferencing Directory is a free searchable
database of ISDN videoconferencing sites for K-12 schools. This is one avenue
for your students to go on virtual field trips and do multi-school
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READY-MADE UNITS AND LESSON PLANS Want units and lesson plans that can be adopted as is, or can be adapted to your particular needs? Try these! Blue Web'N Table of Contents This is an excellent (some feel the very best) source of lessons, etc. for all subjects and grade levels. Pacific Bell deserves much credit for this site. S.C.O.R.E.
(Schools of California Online Resources for Education) contains quality resources and lesson
plans for science,
history/social
studies, language arts and math. It may be a little confusing navigating around in the S.C.O.R.E. site, but
the time you spend here will make it worthwhile to you. There are many wonderful
units here! Online Resources from the Marc Polo Program has many quality lesson plans and resources for K-12. To find the lesson plans, just click on the icons at the right or use these links as shortcuts: EdSiteMENT (Literature and Language Arts, Foreign Language Art and Culture History and Social Studies from The National Endowment for the Humanities); ILLUMINATIONS (Math from the National Council of Teachers of Math); ScienceNet Links (from the American Association for the Advancement of Science); ArtsEdge (from the Kennedy Center ties in Design, Visual, and Performing Arts with science, math, history, language arts, etc.); Xpeditions (Geography from National Geographic); and EconEdLink (Economics from the National Council of Economic Education). You will be glad you checked out these units. Content Matrix from Teachers
First has lessons and units for all subjects and grade levels. This site
has some great units! Use the scroll bar at the right at the site to find
more subjects. Mr. Donn's U.S. History Lesson Plans & Activities and World History Lesson Plans & Activities (K-12) are extensive lists of units and lesson plans maintained by Lin and Don Donn. Primarily Primary
has lots of lessons, many using the internet, for K-2 students. Beth
Buchler and Tom Buller of Lesson
Plans Page is a "collection of over 1,000 lesson plans, primarily at
the elementary level, that were developed by students and faculty at the Assorted Lessons are lessons found or sent to me by people or organizations who wish to act as sources of quality lessons for you and your students. The Gateway provides a way to search for thousands of Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources. It is sponsored by The U.S. Department of Education's National Library of Education. Lesson Plans! from Edhelper.com has links to units, lesson plans and resources for K-12 categorized by subjects. Curriculum Units are produced by teachers participating in Institute Seminars of the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute 1978-2003 and designed for most subjects and grades. They are on the internet but are not internet-based. However, these 7-12 units are too good to leave off of anyone's list, as they will make your students think! Many of the units can easily be adapted into a WebQuest or used as they are. Each Volume contains many quality units. The Math Forum's Teacher Place has just about everything even remotely connected to mathematics. There are some excellent integrated units at this site hosted by Drexel University in which math is but one component. The Educator’s Reference Desk (formerly Ask ERIC Lesson Plans) contains more than 2,000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to Ask ERIC by teachers. They are on the internet but are not necessarily internet-based. TeachNet Lesson Plan Index is a collection of frequently updated lesson plans as well as many other helpful teaching resources. The Awesome Library- Lesson Plans has many quality units and lesson plans for all grades and subjects and is maintained by Dr. R. Jerry Adams. Lesson Plans and Activities from Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (MCREL) in Aurora (CO) has lesson plans for a variety of subjects and levels and other education links. Lesson Plans has elementary level units from The Kindergarten Connection maintained by Carol Gossett. Science
Lessons from the Drama
Unit Lesson Plans from Language Arts Lesson Plans (literature, writing, poetry and library lessons) for high school and advanced middle school students from Ray Saitz. This site also has links to many language arts internet lessons plans and resources. Teaching Online Lessons Library for various grades and subjects, especially elementary grades. This sites tends to focus on New Zealand topics, which shows that good teaching transcends national borders. Lots of good ideas here. Health and Physical Education Lesson Plans and Resources from John Williams, a teacher at Ayden (NC) Elementary School. There is a section on adapted P.E. PE Central has lesson plans for K-12 physical education as well as many resources. Check out their assessment link and the links to adapted P.E. for students with I.E.P.'s. Marcia's Lesson Links for K-3 by Marcia Goudie has many lessons and resources for the early primary teacher looking for cool things for her/his students. Science Curricula from letus.org has wonderful examples of engaged learning units for middle schools. |
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BUILDING YOUR OWN UNIT - TEACHER RESOURCES Need quality links to help you find resources in order for your students to learn better? Try these! National and state curriculum standards compiled by the NEA. Holocaust, Anne Frank and W.W.II Links is a web page with links to Holocaust, Anne Frank and W.W.II sites for your students and lesson plans for you. Black History Links
is a web page with links to sites which help describe issues from slavery in
pre-Civil War Substance Abuse Research Links is a web page with links to student safe sites which help them with substance abuse research. Assorted Teaching Resources are individual sites were found or sent to me by people or organizations who wish to act as sources of teaching material and information for you and your students. Some links that used to be on the Cool Lessons and Units page is now on this link. 42eXplore section of Eduscapes.com by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson has information, definitions, links, and other resources on many topics for K-12. This site is a real time saver. Eduscapes.com also has much to offer teachers. It is well worth a look. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of many sites on the Internet found to be extremely useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. Many feel this is the BEST teacher resource site on the Internet. Expect to spend much time here as you enjoy finding wonderful resources for you and your students. The Scholastic Network has
lesson plans, author interviews, online activities (mentioned earlier) for
your students and much more. Access to this site used to cost money, but now
it is free. If you are not familiar with Scholastic Network, the time you
spend here will be worthwhile. It's a great resource for you and your
students. WebSites
and Resources for Kids from Sites
for Teachers.com contains lesson plans as well as creative classroom
projects, interactive activities, visits to museums, trips around the ThinkQuest Library of Entries is the collection of educational web sites designed by participants in the ThinkQuest Contests. Your students can explore a multitude of topics, many in an interactive format to keep them interested while learning. Use the index to find a topic or use this Search for Keywords. Top Humanities Websites has "an overview of some of the top Internet sites in the areas of literature, history, foreign languages, and art history". The Children's Literature Web site has resources about authors, stories, reader's theater, books, reading and language art teachers' resources and much more. This site is by David K. Brown of Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary. Resources for English/Language Arts Teachers by Janice Smith has resources and lesson plans for poetry, literature, editorial cartoons, fictional short stories, grammar, children's literature, on-line ideas for English teacher and much, much more. Also check out her Ms. Smith's English Page for her eighth grade English classes at Weymouth (MA) Junior High as a model of what an English teacher's web page should include. Using Primary Sources in the Classroom from the Library of Congress. Want to make your students really think? "These suggestions for student activities can help you enhance your social studies curriculum using authentic artifacts, documents, photographs, and manuscripts from the Library of Congress Historical Collections and other sources." There are some great ideas for student research at this site. Education
Resources by Subject from the Education Index is "a topic-by-topic
breakdown of the best sites on the World Wide Web" they claim. Teacher Web
Resources from Kid Info leads to "quality internet sites" you
can use as resources. Crossroads: A K-16 American History Curriculum is just that - thought provoking questions and on-line resources. This is definitely worth a look by anyone teaching U.S. History at any level! History / Social Studies for K-12 should be visited by every history or social studies teacher. Dennis Boals has done a wonderful job in not only choosing great links for you but in keeping them up to date as well. Geography by Matt Rosenberg has all kinds of geography resources. Music education sites and a music education web ring as well as art education sites from Dr. Bernie Poole. Explore Our Resources from the Science Learning Network has links to many online interactive museum activities. Some of these are good enough to be included in the online projects section. Internet Resources
from the TeacherLink A source of many links to teacher resources, units and lesson plans. Type in a keyword for the unit your are doing. This site is maintained by Mr. Nathan M. Smith, College of Education, Utah State University. Mr. Bode's Foreign Language Site contain over 100 links for foreign language teachers (mostly Spanish but includes others), as well as interactive Spanish worksheets which can be completed and scored online. (Note: This page has been upgraded and now takes forever to download, but it is well worth the time.) ESL/Language Arts Websites has links to ESL, translation and English language websites. There will be pop up ads with this site. List Of Valuable ESL Resources by Marie Nizzi of Garden City High School in N.Y. Lots of links here, but the site may try to download an mplayer.exe file (play a song). If you don't want it, just cancel the warning dialogue box. ESL Teacher Resources by Jerelyn Hurley has many quality ESL links. Everything
ESL.net from Judie Haynes, NEA member from the EduHound Espanol focuses on Spanish, Bilingual Ed and ESL. The site is view able in both English and Spanish. Frank Potter's Science Gems has every site one could possibly need for science education. Site
Map A way to discover information from across the entire Teachers' Links for K-8 teachers from Dr. Norman Labush. K-8 teachers will like the variety of free educational resources. Everything for Education K-12 from EduHound.com is a prescreened collection of excellent educational links. K-5 teachers will want to focus on EduPuppy.com, especially their list of quality lesson plans. On-Line Practice Modules Want to find out how to use PowerPoint, Inspiration, Excel, Clarisworks, Hyperstudio and many other applications in your classroom? Bill Byles and Susan Brooks have designed "step-by-step modules for training teachers to use the most common applications used in classrooms." The Teachers.Net Chatboard Network allows you to talk to other teachers about topics related to your teaching. I've found teachers at this site to be most helpful and supportive. This page is for teachers all grades, subjects, and specialties. 4teachers.org is a site with
many productivity tools for teachers. One of them is Web Worksheet Wizard which
allows you as a teacher to make a single web page and put it on the Internet.
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BUILDING YOUR OWN UNIT - FORMATS
Use these cutting-edge unit formats to engage your students' minds!
The Basics
Engaged
Learning
WebQuests
Problem-Based Learning
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learning - From simple to complex scaffolding Visual Organizer of Activity Formats from Filamentality has some examples of matching the type of web based activity to the goals you have for your students. Another way to look at the kinds of activities is to use the image at the bottom of the link. To find a particular activity use the Knowledge Network Explorer Search. Research Modules are another way to look at the different levels of activities, all of which still challenge your students to think. Integrating the 'Net into the Elementary Classroom is a nice summary of six levels of Internet use in the classroom with appropriate links for each from Sarah A. DiRuscio, Forefront Curriculum. (The link is provided from www.archive.org) Classroom Organization: Nuts and Bolts of Doing Web Based Lessons is a summary of good teaching practices applied to engaged learning with technology. Before you do a technology-based, engaged learning unit it would be wise to take a look at these points. |
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Even experienced teachers should look at the many activities in the The Basics section for many excellent engaged learning activities. Engaged Learning Homepage by the Fermilab LInC program "This page contains links to all the resources you'll need to create a standards-based engaged learning project for your existing curriculum that effectively integrates technology to allow students to communicate, collaborate, explore, research, and publish in ways that would not be feasible without the technology." Creating
Engaged Learning Environments by North Central Regional Educational
Laboratory (NCREL), Evaluating the Effectiveness of Educational Technology Kathleen Fulton presents a nice summary of the available research. Project Based Learning from the George Lucas Educational Foundation is a nice summary of the literature. Research Links for Engaged Learning is a summary of research for Project Based Learning. |
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Even experienced teachers should look at the many activities in the For Beginners section for many excellent engaged learning activities. The WebQuest Page by Dr. Bernie Dodge. This page has information on the philosophy of WebQuests and a tutorial on how to build your own WebQuest as well as links to dozens more units. Why Use WebQuests? This page provides links to theories and thoughts supporting the use of WebQuests. You just HAVE to check out the link to Brian Booth's WebQuest for Progressive Learning Theory. Using a WebQuest in Your Classroom is a nice summary of how to build and evaluate a WebQuest. It was designed by Bill Byles and Susan Brooks of Memphis City Schools. What is a WebQuest? by Laura Bellofatto, Mike Casey and Marsha Krillis is a good description of how to build WebQuests with models. WebQuest Student Template and WebQuest Teacher Template are rich text format documents used in developing WebQuests for a Kane County/Aurora (IL) University class. Both files have already been scanned with Norton AntiVirus. These are for non-profit use only. The WebQuest Design Process by Tom March contains an interactive flowchart to help you develop WebQuests. A Template for Creating Your Own WebQuest Tom Marsh has developed this template to help you build a WebQuest based on Dr. Bernie Dodge's recommendations. Creating Web-based Lessons: WebQuests and Other Internet Projects by Education Service Center, Region 20, San Antonio, TX based on work by Dr. Bernie Dodge, Tom March, and Dr. Judi Harris. This site contains sample WebQuests, WebQuest Templates for students and teacher sections and rubrics for evaluating your WebQuest. It also presents other ideas for using the Internet with your students. WebQuest Resources is another nice source of information for building WebQuests (including graphic links). WebQuests: a Workshop for the Engaged Learning Institute by Jim Andris (The link is provided from www.archive.org) Filamentality "is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site" that helps you actually to design and put your own WebQuests on the internet. This is the place to be for the quickest and most foolproof way for someone to be a WebQuest author and to put your WebQuest on the Internet. However, they will host (keep) your WebQuest for one year only so you need to find another place on the Web to put it the next year. Pacific Bell deserves much credit, again. Very cool!! |
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Even experienced teachers should look at the many activities in The Basics section for many excellent engaged learning activities. Measuring What Counts: Memorization Versus Understanding by Eeva Reeder is a nice summary of the philosophy of why to use project based learning. Project, Problem, and Inquiry-based Learning from Eduscapes.com has wonderful links to Project Based Learning sites. Center for Problem Based Learning - Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The team that put this page together did a great job describing the components of Problem Based Learning. A tutorial and examples of Project Based Learning units are included. Reality Based Learning Projects are just that, problem based learning using an outside partner (business, local government agency, etc.).
Technology
Literacy Challenge Fund from What Kids Can Do are examples of young people working with adults in their schools and communities on the real-world issues that concern them most. Comparing WebQuests and Problem Based Learning An outline comparison between WebQuests and PBL units. |
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These are some of the best sources for rubrics and checklists for evaluating student learning. Don't forget to show them to your students before they start the projects.
Alternative Assessment Using Technology (Slide Show) or Handout Brian Booth created a thoughtful analysis how the product determines the process. |
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Research help for students - Click here for a great starting point for your students' research. CNN Interactive Has a searchable keyword database of news stories. Martindale's The Reference Desk Includes just about everything you've ever wanted to know. Martindale's Health Science Guide – 2003 Includes 10,000+ medical links: nutrition, dental, nursing, veterinary, brain, cardiology, imaging, etc. Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes hundreds of Internet-based education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government much easier to find. NewsTrawler Has a meta-search engine that allows you to search newspapers, magazines and other news sources from around the world at the same time. (Search hints: - Do not search more than twenty sources at a time, it may return an error message; - Also when you use multiple words in your search, you may use boolean operators such as AND, OR, NOT.) Beaucoup Electronic Publication Page Has indices of newspapers and more from across the world. It also has links to reference materials and many search engines. Government Information Sharing Project Much information about demographics, census data, etc. The Internet Public Library Source of many reference materials, newspapers, magazines, etc. from the United States and many other countries. On-line Reference Works Contain various reference links from Carnegie Mellon University. The Library in the Sky A "real" internet library. |
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