Technology Tools To
Help
Literature Web Quests:
Various Content, and Readiness
Levels
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Web Quests: By Various
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Web Quests: By Readiness
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Nellies English Projects Go to the Task column to the readiness level needed. |
Sites to help you Search for Content Area or Readiness
Level
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Search by content, subject, or grade level. |
Search for Web quests click on Search on the left side of page |
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KidsClick Advanced search has ability to choose readiness level of
web sites |
Scroll down to Lesson Plans to
search or use the Site Index to find lessons by content | |
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Enchanted Learning easy to read content – great for learning same content |
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Economic lessons by grade level Scroll down to Quick Search, choose the area, click on Go You can then search by grade level under the Find a Lesson on the left side. |
search for lesson plans correlated to State of Indiana Standards. It also has links to Curriculum Frameworks lessons and Worksheets. | |
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The Educator's Best Friend - Make it your home
page |
Click here to for an example of differentiating with this site |
Teaching With Technology Teacher Institute for Curriculum Knowledge about Integration of Technology |
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Macrograms click on one, then you will see grade level links |
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42eXploreis a weekly project section that contains a thematic topic with selected web resources, ideas and activities, vocabulary, lesson plans, webQuests, and student produced materials. Watch each week for a new topic. The themes range across curriculum areas and age levels. |
Multimedia
Seeds
contains ideas and resources to help you grow and improve as a multimedia
user, developer, technology coordinator, educator, collection developer,
or librarian. |
Use
the following resources as you reflect on your current uses of technology
and consider ways to impact the learning experience through
technology.
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Literature Ladders combines award-winning and popular fiction for young readers together with selected website resources. |
NatureScapes contains original articles and photographs about our natural environment and people's place in nature |
The Teacher Tap is a professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions. |
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Activate E-Journal is a non-periodic online publication with articles aimed at developing technology-rich learning environments. Look there for materials from our presentations and workshops |
Geocaching has information about combined hiking, sightseeing, and locating cached 'treasures' using our handheld GPS. |
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Sites to help you search for Student Practice or
Assessments
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4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your
classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps
teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and
classroom calendars |
QuizStar is an online resource to make and manage online
quizzes RubiStar - rubric creator
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Create Your Own Interactive Games: Matching, Graphic Match, Term Matching, etc. |
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search for lesson plans correlated to State of Indiana Standards. It also has links to Curriculum Frameworks lessons and Worksheets. |
Fun Brain Games by grade level |
That Quiz This site offers free testing, grading and record keeping for teachers, with practice tests for students |
Tools to help your students
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Awesome Talking Library– free download that reads most web pages to students, either by selecting text or the entire page |
Microsoft Word>Tools>
AutoSummarize
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AutoSummarize determines key points by analyzing the document and assigning a score to each sentence. Sentences that contain words used frequently in the document are given a higher score. You then choose a percentage of the highest-scoring sentences to display in the summary. Open the Word document you want to summarize. Go to Tools>Autosummarize. Choose the type of summary and the percent of the original. |
As with any web sites, I recommend strongly that parents and teachers carefully preview the sites before viewing with children. Please remember that I do not own or have control over the content of any linked sites. If you find a site that I have linked to that is inappropriate for young children, PLEASE E-Mail me!