Jun 3, 2004

Internet Assignment 1

Please post or email a reply to one of the following tasks:

1) Go to www.scholastic.com. This website contains 3 portals: one for parents, one for teachers, and one for students. Review all three portals by choosing an activity from each portal. Describe one activity for that portal in your reply and suggest how you might integrate the lesson/activity into a classroom. If you are a high school educator, choose the activity level for the highest grade possible, such as grade 8.

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2) Go to www.dreamms.org . This assistive technology information clearinghouse has articles, products and a focus on technologies for students with special needs. Please click on the word "LINKS" in the left frame of the website, and when you see the new page with many resources, scroll down to the section labeled: "Corporate, Software and Special Education Organization Destinations." Choose three links from this section, explore their resources and write a small paragraph about each link.

DUE DATE: June 10
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Mike Lawrence said...

On the scholastic web site under the FAMILY heading there are ideas on how to get your child interested in science. If I were a teacher I would plan a trip to the Discovery Center in Santa Ana where they explore various scienific topics as well as activities for children. On the Discovery Center web site there are science experiments that are geared towards all grade levels so teachers can get ideas for experiments in the classrom. Teachers can also incorporate scientific fun facts to help make science topics fun and interesting.
Under the KIDS heading there are book titles that kids can choose from with excerpts from each book. This can be used for teachers to direct them into the subject of book reporting. Allowing students to choose books that they have an interest in instead of the teacher choosing a book for them might open the door for children to have a desire to read. As a teacher I would create a book club for students so that they could choose books to buy at a reduced rate and practice doing reports to enhance their writing skills.
Found within the TEACHER heading is a list of all subject matter lesson plans which helps guide teachers through planning activities and provides ideas to incoprporate in the classroom. In the Math lesson plan you can choose from different lesson plans that highlight problem solving for instance. There are all types of problem solving activities like math-teasers and math games. Math games could be important to integrate into a math lesson to help reduce math anxiety and to show that math can be fun.

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