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McDaniel College

SLM 521

Required Assignments

Web Link Bibliography – Collection of websites that support the second grade curriculum of Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland. This website is not sponsored or endorsed by MCPS. http://wwwfac.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/webbib.htm

Search Engines Assignment – Collection of useful and appropriate websites for elementary school students and teachers. http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/srchengns.htm

Article Critique – The article The Changing Classroom: Challenges for Teachers addresses issues educators have had face since the arrival of the Internet and the fast and evolving development of technology.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/articlereview.htm

Course Module – The Graphic Organizers course module challenges teachers to visit online graphic organizers websites, to determine which ones are appropriate for the grade level taught and to develop a lesson plan that requires students to pick the graphic organizer that best helps to complete a given task. http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/coursemodule.htm

Dropin Assignments

Dropin #1: Assignment 1 Students will access Tomie dePaola’s official website, read his biography and identify facts about this author. http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/webdropin1assignm1.htm

Dropin #1: Assignment 2 Students will access Tomie dePaola’s official website, read the information the author has posted about his creative process and create a list of the steps he follows in the writing and illustration processes.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/webdropin1assignm2.htm

Dropin #2: Students will the Ongoing Fairy Tales website, select a fairy tale from the site and identify characteristic elements of fairy tales in the selected story. http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/dropin2.htm

Dropin #3: Students will match physical features terms to their definitions and label specific United States features to the correct geographical location.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/dropin3.htm

Droin #4: Students will access student friendly websites and learn about environmental issues that are affecting our planet. This is a writing activity where students will accept or reject the statement: We should we be concerned about the environment.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/dropin4.htm

Dropin #5: Students will read articles links to Times for Kids and go on a virtual tour of the NOAA Website to learn about the 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. After completing task student will complete a follow up worksheet provided by the teacher.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/dropin5.htm

Elective Assignments

Communication Electives

Moderating Weekly Discussion: Moderated the session 2 discussion that debated the pros and cons of virtual education.

Email Distribution: An email distribution list is an useful tool for teachers when they want to disseminate information to the parents, students or staff.

Email: A list of suggestions for effective email communication for second graders

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/Email.htm

Key Pals: A list of instructional ideas for communicating with key pals in a second grade classroom. Three websites with key pals projects listed are linked to the document and were selected for their user friendly format.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/keypals.htm

Utilities Elective

Translation: This page will link you to a list of suggested instructional situations for the use of translation websites. A warning regarding the grammatical accuracy of the translations is also given.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/Translation.htm

Legal Elective

Filtering: This elective explores the pros and cons of using filters in a school setting.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/Filtering.htm

Multimedia Electives

Clip Art : This is a collection of 5 clip art and animated images site that will assist teachers and students in making their instructional work colorful and fun.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/clipart.htm

Presentations Onlines: A Power Point presentation of the life cycle of the butterfly

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/butterflylifeppt_files/frame.htm

Miscellaneous Electives

Safety: An information letter regarding Internet use safety guards for Montgomery County Public Schools, MD parents and an agreement of Internet use for students

Publications: An annotated bibliography of 5 online publications that support technology education

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/Publications.htm

Instruction Electives

Field Trips: Pilgrim World Tours will take you on field trips to the Plymouth Plantation, the Mayflower II, the Plymouth Rock, the Massasoit monument, and the Pilgrim Hall Museum

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/virtualtour.htm

Lesson Plans: This is an annotated bibliography of websites that contain links to lesson plans that support the second grade curriculum of Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/lessonplans.htm

Instructional Worksheets Websites: This is a web bibliography of websites with worksheets that can be used for instruction.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/worksheets.htm

Teacher made websites: This elective evaluates two teacher made websites for content, usefulness and presentation.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/coombsd/Teacherwebsites.htm