| Differentiated Instruction How To's--learning styles, strategies, management, assessment--self paced to learn to implement |
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WebQuests
It is a journey into learning that can be the "hook" for even the most reluctant learner.
WebQuests provide an authentic, technology-rich environment for problem solving, information processing, and collaboration. This inquiry-based approach to learning involves students in a wide range of activities that make good use of Internet-based resources. (Annette Lamb, 8/00.)
WebQuest
Quality Scale |
Adapting
and Adjusting Existing WebQuests You don't have to develop a WebQuest from scratch. There are hundreds out there--find one and make it yours! |
WebQuest
Readings and Training Materials Excellent source of all information you need to learn how to develop high quality WebQuests for your classes. |
ozline.com
(Helping Educators Work the Web) Site maintained by Tom March, one of WebQuest founders, giving many resources to see the best and develop your own WebQuests. |
Best
WebQuests There are many so called WebQuests out there, but a fully developed, quality WebQuest is harder to find. Here they are by grade level. |
The
WebQuest Page The original. Go to Portal and find a matrix of WebQuests rated as good or better under Top, Middling, and New. |
| ThinkQuest
Library
Listing of outstanding web projects developed through the annual ThinkQuest competition and programs. |
KidQuests:
WebQuests for Young Kids and Emergent Readers/Writers How to make a Quest user friendly for young children. |
| Grades
K-2 Webquests Lots of information with specific K-2 WebQuests ready to use. |
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Meeting
The Mitten (Grades K-1) This unit is designed for students in kindergarten and first grade although it can easily be expanded for use in all primary grades. It integrates language arts, technology, applied learning, life science, and visual and performing arts. |
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Journey Through Native American Cultures (Grade 2) This lesson is designed to familiarize primary level learners with the different Native American cultures. It is also designed to increase students proficiency with regard to locating information on the computer. |
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Tale to be Told (Grades 3-5) Solve the mystery while learning about folktales from other lands. Students will also create a tale of their own. |
Dr.
Green's Rainforest Mystery (Grade 3)
This is a mystery WebQuest where students each take a role to research animals and plants of the rainforest. |
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Realm of Fairy Tales (Grades 4-5) Working in pairs, students will read a selection of online fairy tales, identifying recurring themes, outline a story map for their own fairy tale including standard story elements and fairy tale themes, and then write their our own fairy tale based on their story map. |
The Intertidal Zone Tour Guide (Grade 5) |
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Wrinkle in Time Sci-Fi fantasy - includes chapter study guides with final a nice range of final projects; fascinating math/science links; links to historical figures and Madeleine L'Engle & her works. |
The
Mystery of Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations (Grade
6) Students will have already studied Precolumbian Culture in Social Studies including the political and cultural aspects of the various societies. It would be an added bonus if the students have previously worked with PowerPoint. |
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"We
Proceeded On . . .": Remembering Lewis and Clark This WebQuest can be completed by students in middle school American History classes. Social studies concepts include westward expansion, map making, and relationships with Native Americans. There is also a significant science component which explores the natural history discoveries of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Language arts, fine arts, and technology skills may enter into students' final project choices. |
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Creative Encounter of the Numerical Kind Although middle school students may have learned to identify basic place value in earlier grades, most are developmentally ready to delve into the deeper concepts of counting in other bases and the exponential growth of groupings within each increasing place. Just as students can more clearly understand the English language by studying a foreign language, math students can better understand our number system by studying other number systems and/or by creating a new one. |
Edgar
Allan Poe Father of Horror (Grade 8) Students will read one of six selections of Edgar Allan Poe and complete a short story/poetry unit which incorporates an understanding of the basic components of short stories and narrative poems. Academically Gifted students will also read Stephen King selections and extend what they have learned to his work through an assigned essay. |
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Light in the Forest (Grade 7-8) This lesson focuses on an extention of the teaching of the novel, "The Light in the Forest", by Conrad Richter. Students will research online resources, including primary source documents, for information regarding the culture of the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) Tribe, create a Lenni Lenape identity for a captive, and reach group consensus about the "value" of each of the individuals who are "captured" by the tribe. |
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Problem-Based
Learning
Problem-based learning (PBL) is focused, experiential learning (minds-on, hands-on) organized around the investigation and resolution of messy, real-world problems.… PBL curriculum provides authentic experiences that foster active learning, support knowledge construction, and naturally integrate school learning and real life; this curriculum approach also addresses state and national standards and integrates disciplines.…
Students are engaged problem solvers, identifying the root problem and the conditions needed for a good solution, pursuing meaning and understanding, and becoming self-directed learners. Teachers are problem-solving colleagues who model interest and enthusiasm for learning and are also cognitive coaches who nurture an environment that supports open inquiry.
(Source: From Problems as Possibilities: Problem-Based Learning for K–16 Education, 2nd Edition (pp. 15–16), by L. Torp & S. Sage, 2002, Alexandria, VA: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.)
IDE
Corporation We have worked with IDE on learner-active, technology-infused classrooms using PBLs. Their website has supporting materials, such as Great Sites for Educators. |
You have access to the IDEPortal, a resource-rich site with many available PBLs. See your principal for password. |
| Project,
Problem, and Inquiry-Based Learning What is different, what is the same, and resources for each. |
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Based Learning Using real world problems to create contexts for thinking and lean ring |
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| See IDEPortal for many lessons, primary, elementary, middle, and high school. | Problem Based Learning Lessons (Middle and High School) |
| Grades K-5 | Grades 6-8 (by subject) |
"Scaffolding" is referred to for many types of learning activities. So what do we mean? "Scaffolding is a temporary structure which provides help at specific points in the learning process," states Bernie Dodge, creator of the WebQuest model. He outlines three basic types of scaffoldings: reception scaffolds, transformation scaffolds and production scaffolds.
| Scaffolding
Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers |
Literature
Learning Ladders Adding excitement to reading lessons by connecting reading to technology. |
Scaffolding
for Success Scaffolding techniques that have proven especially worthwhile in an electronic context. |
Graphic
Organizers 
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world of inspired resources by Inspiration® and Kidspiration® software |
Inspiration
in the Classroom Created by teachers for teachers |
Graphic
Organizer Makers by Teach-nology (scroll down below graphic to access information) |
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Graphic Organizer Graphic Organizers, Mind Maps, Concept Maps are pictorial or graphical ways to organize information and thoughts for understanding, remembering, or writing. They are powerful tools to create a foundation for and enhance learning. |
Education
Place Graphic
Organizers A Houghton Mifflin site |
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Blocks Literacy Framework Graphic Organizers |
Enchanted
Learning Graphic
Organizers Wide variety of organizers with explanation of the best use of each. |
Scholastic
Graphic Organizers |
Rubrics
Rubric
to Assess a PBL from IDE Corporation |
Teach-nology
Rubric Makers Rubrics you can use that are personalized for you and your classroom. |
Rubrics by Prentice Hall |
RubiStar
Make your own rubrics using this free tool that also includes a tutorial. |
Lots more places for rubrics from Kathy Scrock's Guide for Educators |
