The following activities were developed in connection with my Telecommunications and the Internet class – SLM 521
These web dropins provide short web information activities for your students. Designed to take between 20 and 30 minutes to complete, these activities are a good source for supplemental instruction when your lessons don’t take as long as you planned.
Fairy Tale Elements – This activity takes students to a site that explains the different common elements of fairy tales and provides a chart for the students to complete with examples.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/dropin1.htm
Native Americans – Students learn more about Native American tribes in this activity that requires them to identify the food, clothing and houses of the different tribes.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/dropin2.htm
State Facts – Students use a fact finder web site to learn interesting facts about their own state and compare those facts with other states.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/dropin3.htm
What do you think about year round schooling – Students are directed to three websites that discuss the pros and cons of year round schooling. Afterwards, they come up with their own list of pros and cons as well as their own overall viewpoint on the subject.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/dropin4.htm
Elements of a story – students are directed to a site where they will read a science fiction story entitled Second Thoughts. Afterwards, they will complete a story map chart outlining the elements of the story.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/dropin5.htm
The files below provide lists of favorite web sites for things such as shopping, lesson plans, worksheets and more.
The best of the net, these search engines are recommended for shopping, kids, images, news and medical information.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/engines.htm
These links provide teachers with many interesting and easy to use ideas for teaching elementary math.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/lessons.htm
This bibliography of web links for Children’s Literature provides sites for teachers, students and parents with ideas for incorporating children’s literature into lesson plans, finding good books to read and ways to make summer reading fun.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/weblinks.htm
These links take you to great sites with worksheets and activity ideas for reading, writing, rubrics and clip art.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/wksheets.htm
This bibliography of web links is geared towards publications containing relevant information about incorporating technology into the classroom.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/publctns.htm
Links, summaries and recommendations for two online newsletters.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/nwsltter.htm
Top ten tips for effective emails.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/emailtip.htm
The following three activities provide for on-line instruction and follow up activities.
This “Mix Up at the Museum” activity has students organize mixed up Native American artifacts.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/present_files/frame.htm
Take your students on a tour through the American Revolution without leaving the classroom. This site offers links to historic Boston, Philadelphia, chronicles of the revolution and an Internet scavenger hunt.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/virtrips.htm
This activity explores the phenomenon of blogging and how it can be used in an educational setting.
http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/inges/blogging.htm