WEB DROP-INS

Title of activity – Web Drop-in #1 – A brief web-based activity on soil.

Description – This is a good web-based activity for students to do when they are beginning to learn about soil and plants. It requires them to visit, read, and explore a website and then answer and perform several questions and tasks related to what they just learned on the website.

URL - http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/ciferrik/dropin1.doc

Title of activity - Web Drop-in #2 – A web based activity on addition of decimals.

Description – Your students will love this activity/game. Simply have them read over the directions and then click on the link to game and off they go. The game requires students to be able to add decimals in order to create different sections of the railroad track. To win, they must complete the whole track and get the train to the end. Be prepared, because the game will stump some of your students and may take others a while to complete, but they’ll have fun doing it.

URL - http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/ciferrik/dropin2.doc

Title of activity - Web Drop-in #3 – A web-based activity on colonial Jamestown.

Description – This activity involves students being able to read maps created in the early 1600’s and determine their differences, similarities and their importance. Students are also able to do a virtual discovery of colonial Jamestown including biographies of its settlers and pictures of artifacts that have been found.

URL - http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/ciferrik/dropin3.doc

Title of activity - Web Drop-In #4 – A web-based activity on the lost colony of Roanoke.

Description – This activity involves students researching and reading over several different websites to establish their own opinion on what they think happened to the settlers of Roanoke.

URL - http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/ciferrik/dropin4.doc

Title of activity - Web Drop-In #5 – A web-based activity on biomes and their annual precipitation and temperatures.

Description – This activity involves students researching and graphing data on the annual precipitation and temperatures in different biomes all over the world. Student will need to be able to read graphs and create bar graphs in order to do this activity.

URL - http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/ciferrik/dropin5.htm