Wayland Public Schools: http://www.wayland.k12.ma.us/connections/harris.html This website is a resource that many teachers can use. Are you looking for that right clipart for your project but don't want to pay for them? This web page has some links to sites that offer free clipart. Have you ever been at a stump on developing a lesson using the web as a resource? This site has some links of sites just for children that can easily be connected to the curriculum.
Discovery Channel School: http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html It is Sunday Evening at 10:00 p.m. and you are trying to get your lesson plans done for Monday. It was just a hectic, busy weekend. Everything is going wrong. Have you had one of these nights where you can not think anymore? This site has lesson plan ideas for you to use no matter what grade you teach.
WVIZ in Cleveland, Ohio: www.wviz.org This is a non-profit public television station, part of PBS, which produces educational and informative programs. They also enhance education of students in the Cleveland area by supporting teachers. They provide lesson plans that can easily be integrated into the curriculum. They also provide teachers with websites that their staff found that would benefit children of all ages.
Microsoft Teachers Network: http://www.k12.msn.com/LessonConnection/Teacher.asp Have you spent the whole weekend looking for that unique lesson that you did five years ago? This website provides you with a search engine that will search the Internet for the lesson plans for that bizarre topic.
Cleveland Municipal Schools: http://www.cleveland.k12.oh.us/teachers/joycelessons/overview.htm
Joyce Alliance Teacher Lesson Plans
CMS believes that effective use of the Internet in the classroom positively affects teaching and learning. Middle school faculty from Cleveland Municipal Schools created the web lessons at this site. These faculty participated in the Savvy Cyber Teacher course, authored by The Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. Upon completion of that curriculum, each faculty participated in 30 hours of technology integration. In these workshops, faculty created quality collaborative web lessons with a strong Ohio proficiency outcome focus.
Internet in a one-computer classroom of middle school youngsters can be a challenge. The authors below believe that setting expectations is an important aspect of these learning experiences. For that reason, the links in the table provide suggestions for classroom rules, collaborative groups, teacher planning that promote effective, and successful web lessons.
Here are some of our unit plans in which we integrated the internet into our teaching.
Please feel free to download a copy of our plan. Mike Bermans and Carrie Kelly lessons are in Rich Text Format (.rtf) and Patty Ellick links to her web page.
Mike Berman: This is a three week unit on teaching students to write a newspaper. Students are taught about the aspects of newspapers and use the internet to research for information about their article.
Carrie Kelly: This unit plan teaches students about writing short stories. They develop short stories of the Internet.
Patty Ellick: This unit for second graders dealing with working dogs. It incorporates reading, language arts, Internet research skills, iditarod, and email.
