Laurie Lewis’ Index Page for SLM-521

Required Assignments

Web Link Bibliography: The Solar System: This is a bibliography intended to help elementary and middle school students and their teachers to locate web sites containing useful, accurate, and interesting information on our solar system. Web sites of questionable authority, or those that appeared not to be up-to-date, were excluded from this bibliography. In addition, several interesting sites concerning other aspects of space have been included.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/biblio.htm

The Best Search Engines: You can access my picks for best medical, legal, shopping, book purchasing and general search engines, here!

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/search.htm

Web Quest: Song of the Solar System is a web quest designed to help 5^th grade science students to use the resources available on the Internet to learn more about the solar system. http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/WebQuestproject.htm

List of 5 Web Quests: This is a list of 5 great web quests for grades 1-5 Social Studies classes.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/webquests5.htm

Course Module: This Course Module provides a look at what Internet cookies are, what they can and cannot do, and their implications concerning online privacy.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/coursemodulecookies.htm

Required Web Dropins

Web Dropin #1: If you would like to take a virtual 3D tour of the solar system, blast off here!

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/dropin1.htm

Web Dropin #2: Along with the Sun and the planets, our solar system also contains comets and asteroids. This Web Dropin will help you to learn more about these fascinating celestial bodies.

http://wwwfac.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/dropin2.htm

Web Dropin #3: This is an exercise in interpreting a chart that compares the nine planets in our solar system with each other.

http://wwwfac.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/DROPIN3A.htm

Web Dropin #4: This dropin takes at look at the two major Presidential candidates’ web pages, and then asks readers to compare what they have to say on certain important issues.

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

Web Dropin #5: If you would like to find out how Celestial Distances are measured, you are at the right place!

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

Electives

Student Publications: This is a collection of possible places to publish student’s work online.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/studentpublication.htm

Publications: If you are interested in reading online publications that cover topics of interest to school library media specialists, check this out!

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/publications.htm

Collaboration: Here is a list of great collaborative projects in several subject areas for the elementary grades.

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/Collaboration.htm

Lesson Plans: This is a list of 5 excellent sites to visit to find web pages containing a large number of links to sites containing lesson plans for K-5 Social Studies classes.

Virtual Field Trip: Come visit the City of Light, Paris, without leaving the comfort of your chair!

http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/slm/student/lewisl/paris.htm