Teaching Content With Online Lesson Formats

Social Studies Department Professional Development
 New Bedford High School Whaleman logoProject MEET

 
MEET Content Specialist-Larry Edmundson
MEET TPD- Cindi Tougas
January 2002
Searching

Basic Searching Techniques

Using Search Engine Math

Use a (+) or a (-) sign whenever you use more than one keyword.

architecture +american

architecture +american  -victorian

A plus sign is attached directly (no spaces) to the word or phrase you want to include in your search.

A minus sign is attached directly (no spaces) to the word or phrase you want to exclude in your search.
Quotations

When searching for topics with words that must be kept in an exact order, such as a phrase, or a name made up of two separate words you should use quotation marks.

Examples:

"white house"

shakespeare +"midsummer night's dream"  

For further assistance on searching:

Searching the Web

http://www.newbedford.k12.ma.us/srhigh/tougas/techbits/searchweb.htm

Best Practices

Aligned to the Curriculum Frameworks
Active ("Hands-On", Interactive, Kinesthetic Learners)
Collaborative (Grouping)
Constructive (Applying new knowledge)
Reflective (Good way to assess individual knowledge with collaborative learning.)
Accessible Content to All Students (Universal Design)

Sample Spotlight Lessons 

This Honorable Court-Created by Larry Edmundson

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Created by Larry Edmundson

Links 

Week One
TrackStar (http://trackstar.hprtec.org/)
A simple to use tool for creating online lessons such as scavenger hunts. You provide the Web sites and some "fact finding" or guiding questions and your lesson is near complete.
Filamentality (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/) This tool allows you to create a variety of lesson formats. A whole spectrum of online formats from a very basic "Hotlist" to a more involved "WebQuest" are available to you for lesson plan creation depending on your instructional objectives.

 

Virtual Education Space logo

 VES (http://www.ves.ws/portal.html) This is a free set of interactive tools and resources. The Massachusetts Department of Education is promoting the use of VES by educators as a productivity and communication tool. One of the more helpful components of VES is the Virtual Hard Drive. Basically the Virtual Hard Drive gives you your own online storage space for documents and files. Currently each VES user has 50 MB of storage space.  

Week Two
Teacher Resources
Marco Polo (http://marcopolo.worldcom.com)-A database* of quality lessons, resources and interactive activities for teachers. Emphasis is on quality not quantity.
GEM (The Gateway to Educational Material) (http://www.thegateway.org/)-Another site providing resources for educators. This may or may not have information on your particular topic.
Online Teacher Tools
Quia (http://www.quia.com)- NO LONGER A FREE TOOL Create your own online activities to supplement your lessons. Great for vocabulary re-enforcement.
RubiStar (http://rubistar.4teachers.org/)Online tool for creating general rubrics for a variety of topics.
Teacher Web (http://www.teacherweb.com) An online tool for teachers who want to create their own basic Web pages. Limited choices, but E-A-S-Y!
Babel Fish (http://world.altavista.com) A free online translation tool can be helpful in making content more accessible to students whose first language is not English. The downside is that the translation is a word for word translation.
CLASP (http://www.massnetworks.org/clasp/about.html) The Curriculum Library Alignment and Sharing Project is working to provide a database* of lessons aligned to the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks. There is also a software program available through CLASP for lesson planning.

*Database- A searchable collection!

Additional Links 

Adobe Free Acrobat Reader for PDF files
Universal Design
CAST  -Provides resources for understanding Universal Design
ReadPlease-A free downloadable program that provides text-to-speech.
Massachusetts DOE
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks-This link will take you to the most current state frameworks.
DOE Tech-DOE's site regarding technology in education for the commonwealth.
Massachusetts K12 Instructional Technology Stds.-NEW standards for MA schools. Teachers in grades K-12 will be expected to assist students in acquiring this range of technology competencies.

 
Teacher Technology Links
www4teachers.org
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Teach-nology  
EdHelper
The WebQuest Page
       -Cindi T.'s WebQuest Collection
Education-World

 

Social Studies Teacher Links 

Textbook Resources

McDougal-Littell's ClassZone McDougal's online site with related links to unit and chapter Web resources.

General History Resources

The History Place

History-Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers

EyeWitness - history through the eyes of those who lived it

Social Studies School Service Links

SocialStudies.org Internet Resources & Links

US History Resources

US History.org 

America's Library

U.S. History Outlines & Charts

Samuel Slater - Father of the American Industrial Revolution

Ellis Island.Org

The 1930's in Print

New Deal Network The Great Depression, the 1930s, and the Roosevelt Administration

Children of the Camps the Japanese American WWII internment camp experience

Death Penalty Curricula for High School

World History Resources

World History Compass Home Page

CNN's World of Faith Links

Mr Donn's Ancient History Page

Ancient China

A New Look at Ancient Egypt

The Ancient City of Athens

Ancient Rome by History Link 101

Life in Ancient Greece Reflected in the Coinage of Corinth

The Corinth Computer Project

Discovery.com -- Pompeii

Ancient Olympics 

The Ancient Greek World 

Art History

WebMuseum: Renaissance Artists

Discoverers Web Explorers

The Mariners' Museum- The Age of Exploration

Child Labor in the 19th Century

First World War.org - A multimedia history of World War One

Geography

Geography Links

Civics & Government

The American Experience Way back - Stand Up For Your Rights

National Budget Simulation Game

How Are laws Are Made

Oyez Oyez Oyez

I Do Solemnly Swear... Presidential Inaugurations

 

Professional
National Council for the Social Studies- (National Council for Teachers of Social Studies) 
New Bedford Public School's History and Social Studies Department 

Study Guides

SparkNotes-History
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/.dir/

MLA Resources

Bridgewater State College: Sample Bibliography Entries

NoodleBib-"a free service that simplifies the process of creating and editing MLA-style bibliographies

Nueva Library Research Interactive Forms-similar to NoodleBib but a more simplified version.

Plagiarism

Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism:
Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism
Ethics 101:  Cheating, Plagiarism, Site Evaluation,
Copyright and Your Students

 

 

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