SCWriP
Lessons and More
CHECK BELOW FOR ALL SUBJECTS
Harvey Green
The South Coast Writing Project / School University Partnership
Santa
Ynez Valley Union High School
email: hgreen@sbceo.org
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I.
Classroom Lessons on the Web
A.
SCORE: Schools of California Online
Resources in Education
This site is sponsored by CTAP, and features Resources and Activities
for all grade levels in Social Science, Language Arts, Science and Math.
All are correlated to the California Framework.
Hint:
Whether using Internet lessons as a teaching aid, as a learning center,
or in the lab a lesson with objectives, tested sites, and written work is the
best bet for success.
B.
Political Cartooning
A critical thinking
exercise in Government, Politics, and Current Events.
Fact:
Almost any picture/graphic on the web can be printed on an overhead,
and can certainly be saved and projected for a class lesson or project.
Click here for the Political Cartooning Assignment
C.
Historical
Interviews
An oral
interview project conducted by students, which pairs them with community members
who have lived the history they are studying. The project also includes submitting the transcription of the
interviews for online posting.
D.
Virtual Stock Exchange
Log on at
http://www.virtualstockexchange.com
. This excellent stock
market challenge site has incredible resources.
Individuals, teams, and classes are given $500,000 of funny money per
account (free registration) to invest in the actual market.
Quotes, charts, research, buys, sells are all real-time. The site keeps
track of every transaction, and provides professional charts and readouts.
The only bad/good aspect of this wonderful stock site is that all gains
and losses are purely fictional.
Click here for my handouts using Virtual Stock Exchange
II.
Using
Search Engines for Personal and Classroom Research
If
you are designing a lesson for your class or lab, a good search engine, and
good search strategies can save you time, frustration, and perhaps some of your
sanity.
My favorite search engine for web pages, text and images is currently GOOGLE. A great way to save time is to download the Google Toolbar, which will continuously display the Google search below your address location on an Internet Explorer browser.
A KID-SAFE search engine is Yahooligans, found at http://www.yahooligans.com . This search site can be set as your classroom homepage, and will allow kids to search safely, pursue educational links, filter out questionable materials, and has online lessons and tips for teachers. Go on and TRY TO FIND SOMETHING BAD…I DARE YOU L
Metacrawler (http://www.go2net.com/) and Dogpile
(http://www.dogpile.com) are three
search engines, which cross-reference numerous search engines
and compile the results of your search. The
result is usually a better and more precise list of hits you are looking for.
Fact : Teaching can be greatly enhanced by using updated materials in handouts, overheads and projections.
Hint: Try saving graphics and/or current event text to include in your handouts. There is no reason (with the Internet) that you cannot keep all lessons updated and fresh off the press J
III.
Educational Sites for Personal and Classroom Use
Most newer textbook
publications have web sites with resources, and enrichment activities. Here
is an example of the sites for my courses:
US
History
McDougal
Littell online resources for texts.
AP
Government
Wilson
text site for Political Science
LINKS FOR ALL SUBJECTS
History/Social Studies:
SCORE
Social Studies Lessons and Resources
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
Louisiana
State University GREAT site of the Civil War
http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/links/cwsuinfo2.htm#Gen
The
History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/
The
History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/
Vietnam
stories
http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories
Vietnam
war
http://www.geocities.com:80/Athens/Forum/9061/USA/Vietnam/vietnam.htm
WWII propaganda posters
http://www.openstore.com/poster
New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.or
Biography
(Television channel)
http://www.biography.com/
Social Studies sites http://my.execpc.com/~dboals/
Discovery School Social Studies sites
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/history/histg.html
Busy Teachers Web site
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html
Discovery School sites for all subjects
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Medieval
Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.htm
Rome
Project
http://www.dalton.org/groups/rome
Stock quotes
http://www.excite.com,
http://www.nyse.com, http://www.nasdaq.com
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
Social
Studies School Service
http://www.socialstudies.com This is a commercial site, but has many great links and lessons for
social studies.
National
Geog Kid's Site for Geography
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/
National
Geographic’s Home Page, with live Web events
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
A&E
Classroom, helping teachers integrate the network’s programs into the
curriculum
http://www.aetv.com/class/
http://www.theodora.com/maps/ (More maps of the world and countries)
http://www.internets.com/shistory.htm
(History Databases)
English
University
of Pennsylvania Digital Library
SCORE
Language Arts site
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cla.html
The International Library of Poetry
Busy Teachers Web site
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html
Discovery School sites for all subjects
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
A&E
Classroom, helping teachers integrate the network’s programs into the
curriculum
http://www.aetv.com/class/
U.S.
Government sites:
Criminal
Justice
http://robles.callutheran.edu/scj/PAGE8.HTML
Anatomy
of a Murder
http://library.thinkquest.org/2760/homep.htm
US House of
Reps.
http://www.house.gov/Visitor.html
The
White House
http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/Welcome.html
A guide to the Declaration of
Ind.
http://www.founding.com/gohome.htm
Constitutional
law and cases
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/
US Supreme Court
cases WITH audio oral arguments!
http://oyez.nwu.edu/
Virtual tour of US Supreme Court
http://oyez.nwu.edu/tour/exterior/street.html
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
Library
of Congress
http://www.loc.gov
Advanced Placement site
This site is the official AP site established by the College
Board. Information on course
requirements, course outlines, sample tests, AP teacher contacts, calendar of
important dates, etc.
http://www.collegeboard.org
Math Sites
Exploratorium math sites
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/mathematics.html
Mathematics Sites and Pages http://web.idirect.com/~klg/math.html
NASA Math sites http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/John/math.htm
Advanced Technology Council in Mathematics sites
http://www.atcminc.com/mSites/
History of Mathematics Web sites
http://homepages.bw.edu/~dcalvis/history.html
A Catalog of Math Resources on the Web
http://mthwww.uwc.edu/wwwmahes/files/math01.html
Math sites
http://www.math.sfu.ca/~mrt/Pages/math_sites.html
http://www.smc.qld.edu.au/mathlink.htm
Busy Teachers Web site
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html
Discovery School sites for all subjects
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Ask
Dr. Math
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/
SCORE
Math lessons
http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/
Brain
Teasers
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
Flashcards
for Kids
http://www.edu4kids.com/math/
K-8 Math (and English) site with puzzles, "Brain
Bowl...
http://www.funbrain.com/
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
Fine
Arts/ Holid
World
Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
http://www.icom.org/vlmp
National
Museum of American Art
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/
The
Greatest Films with film history, posters
http://www.filmsite.org/
Independence
Day on the Net
http://www.holidays.net/independence
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
World Wide Art
resources for museums, galleries and art sites
http://wwar.com/
National
Endowment for the Arts Home Page
http://www.neh.fed.us/
A&E Classroom, helping teachers integrate the network’s programs into
the
curriculum
http://www.aetv.com/class/
Busy Teachers Web site
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html
Discovery School sites for all subjects
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Foreign Language Sites
Spanish and French Web sites http://www.blaydes.com/Forlang.html
Yamada Language Guide http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides.html
I Love Languages http://www.ilovelanguages.com/
Busy Teachers Web site http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Discovery School sites for all subjects
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html
A
Web of Online Dictionaries (In almost every language you can imagine!)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
Foreign Language EPals
http://www.epals.com/
Foreign
language links
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/langlink.html
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
Science Sites
Discovery School science sites http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
Busy Teachers Web site
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/homepg.html
Hands-on Science Sites Worldwide http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mwm/sci.html
School
Science Fairs Home Page
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/~jbarron/scifair.html
Environmental
Education for Kids
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/
American
Museum of Natural History
http://amnh.org
National
Geo. Kid's Site
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html
Discovery
Channel for educators
http://www.discoveryschool.com
How Stuff Works (Science)
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
National
Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
News from almost any daily newspaper in the world
Master
list of newspapers
http://ajr.newslink.org/canews.html
http://www.latimes.com
http://www.usatoday.com
http://www.sbnewspress.com
http://www.cnnfn.com
Teaching
tools
- Various online lesson plans and educational resources.
CA. Department of
Education
http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/
Educational Res. In
CA.
http://ericir.sunsite.syr.edu/
SB County Office of
Ed.
http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/
http://www.geocities.com/
Annette Lamb's links
- a GREAT list of educational sites!
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/techiebug/index.htm
Annette Lamb's Cool Starting Points for Parents, Teachers and
Students
http://eduscapes.com/start.html
B.J.
Pinchbeck's Homework Helper (All Subjects)
http://school.discovery.com/students/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
ICQ
- Mirabilis. Online chat, which enables you to chat with multiple people, and
research at the same time. Great
for collaborative work! (http://www.mirabilis.com)
Download it for free!!
Music
online - For
those of you with speakers and hard drive space…
Streaming audio of all musical genres! SHOUTCAST!
Audio,
Video, Image, and Radio files online sharing
Kazaa
Classical Music
Archives
http://www.prs.net/midi.html
National Public
Radio
http://www.npr.org
Classic
Ragtime
http://www.trachtman.org/ragtime
Ragtime
midi music
http://users.aol.com/johnroache/private/classic.html
Old time radio show
clips
http://www.otr.com/
Online Magazines: Computer and others
Popular
magazines online
http://pathfinder.com
Good weekly guide to the Internet, with helpful hints, web sites and articles
http://www.accessmagazine.com/homepage/homepage.jsp
Search
for some of the best computer-related deals on the Internet at
http://www.zdnet.com/computershopper
Web 66, info
on how to integrate the Internet into your school, set up a Web server and more
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
A&E
Classroom, helping teachers integrate the network’s programs into the
curriculum
http://www.aetv.com/class/
Apple
Computer’s starting spot for educators
http://www.apple.com/education/
Deals on the Web
Computers
and computer-related purchases
http://www.zdnet.com/computershopper
Books,
videos, etc. at discount prices
http://www.dealtime.com
Discount
air fares
http://www.travelocity.com
Deals
on Hotels
http://www.1800usahotels.com/
Online
Coupons
http://www.1800usahotels.com/ and
http://www.mycoupons.com
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