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1. The best Internet tutorial site I’ve found:
2. This tutorial gives a very complete view
of the educational possibilities of the web.
The focus is on school web sites and how they are used,
but there are other good site references, too.
It’s called K-5 Cybertrail:
http://www.wmht.org/trail/mainlink.htm
3. Webteacher tutorials:
http://www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html
4. This site contains many good tutorials
for the ClarisWorks program.
http://users.desupernet.net/ohora/Clarisworkstutorials.html
B. USE THE INTERNET TO FIND LESSON PLANS!
2. Here’s the IBM site.
3. Encarta has a nice collection of lesson plans.
4. Education World is an online magazine.
5. Houghton Mifflin publishers have
a searchable lesson plan bank.
6. Teachers Net is a popular teacher’s site.
Here is the lesson plan collection:
7. Blue Web’n is a part of a very large web site.
This URL will show you the resources in a chart, organized by subject area
and the type of resource.
8. SCR-TEC is a regional group with a
very large web site. Lesson plans can be found in the section called
“Explorer,” but they must be downloaded. It can be a little tricky,
so you might want to save this site for later!
9. A World of Kindergartens is a wonderful
thematic website:
10. PAGES of “Hundred Day” activities
are available at this site:
2. WWW4teachers is SCR-TEC’s newspaper.
See the section called “Teacher Testimonials.” Earlier articles are in the archives.
http://www.apple.com/education
http://www.ibm.com/
http://www.encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp
Lesson plans published here are often based on current themes
(for example, many “Godzilla” lessons this summer)
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/index.shtml/
http://www.eduplace.com/search/activity2.html
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/explorer-db/browse
/static/Mathematics/browse/f22.html
http://www.iup.edu/~njyost/KHI/KHI.htmlx
http://users.aol.com/a100thday/ideas.html
NOTE URL CHANGE 7-16-99
The collection of articles is very fine, and you can search for a particular topic.
I have printed many of these articles, and I think they would be an excellent print
resource for any school library.
http://www.techlearning.com/content/working/
(If you are interested in teaching first graders how to use diskettes,
check out my article called "1 computer, 1 teacher, 23 First Graders"”)
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/lawhon.htm
http://www.4teachers.org/home/index.shtml
Here's my VERY FIRST ARTICLE, written one year after this old teacher was introduced to
computers in the classroom. It's called "Wow, We're Going to Computers!" It's about
an ABC project my kindergarteners did back in 1996...
http://www.4teachers.org/testimony/lawhon/
http://www.knowledgeadventure.com/features/parents
E. PRINT WORKSHEETS TO USE FOR YOUR MATH CLASS.
2. Internet Educational Workbook
2. Teachnet: this is a well-established site
with two options for mailrings.
1. Superkids Math Worksheet Creator
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/
http://www.accessone.com/inew/
1. At TeachersNet, the chatboards are wonderful!
There are chatboards by grade level and by subject. I
hang out on the Primary Chatboard.
http://www.teachers.net/mentors/primary_elementary
http://www.teachnet.com/
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2. This site offers the following drill materials for Primary Math students:
Math Flashcards for Kids, Time Experience Drill , Money Experience Drill
http://www.edu4kids.com/
3. SCR-TEC mathematics materials must be downloaded.
They include Bullfrog math and Dollar Daze.
http://explorer.scrtec.org/index.html
4. The best flashcards, plus Bingo,
Hidden Picture Game, Concentration:
http://www.aplusmath.com
5. “Quia!” is a nice site for drilling the
math facts. There are flashcards, matching games, or concentration games.
You can use the games that are already at the site, or make up your own.
http://www.quia.com
6. Kids’ Money Page:
http://pages.prodigy.com/kidsmoney/kids.htm
7. Funbrain includes simple games such
as Math Baseball, Changemaker, and a number line game called Line Jumper.
The games are fairly slow, and there’s a lot of distracting information that
does not relate to the problem at hand.
http://www.funbrain.com
8. At the Monster Math site, there are
monster story problems. Sound is available on Macs.
(If you have a PC, pair good readers with less proficient readers to work at this site.)
This site is very good for second graders who need to work on story problems,
but have trouble reading them!
http://www.lifelong.com/CarnivalWorld/MonsterMath/MonMathHP.html
9. In case you need it,
here’s an Online Calculator:
http://www.exmandato.se/~martin/cgi-bin/calculator.cgi
10. An interactive pattern blocks game
is available.
http://www.best.com/~ejad/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml
B. SOME INTERNET SITES OFFER MATH CHALLENGES ON A WEEKLY OR MONTHLY BASIS.
C. SOME INTERNET SITES OFFER COLLABORATIVE OPPORTUNITIES.
D. SOME INTERNET SITES OFFER PROGRAMS THAT CAN BE DOWNLOADED.
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A. MAKE COUNTING ACTIVITIES FUN WITH THE INTERNET.
2. My first love for a webpage is this
site from Loogootee West Elementary School. The page is called “Surfing the
ABC’s” and it was made by kindergartners and first graders several years ago.
(It’s the very first quality primary site I ever found so I’m sentimental about it!) I’ve used this site to do a very simple scavenger hunt with fourth-quarter first graders.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/abc/index.html
B. THERE ARE MANY SITES TO MAKE GRAPHING MORE FUN.
2. Here is a complete lesson plan for M and M math:
http://encarta.msn.com/alexandria/templates/lessonFull.asp?page=240
2. For older students, give the students a card with a given
amount of money. Have them look through a website and list which items
could be purchased. (A good exercise in meaningful “greater than” or “less than.”
3. Find a fun shopping site and let students make
up word problems for each other. (I have six quarters and ten dimes.
Can I buy a spaceship?)
1. Use the site “How Far Is It?” to compare distances between cities.
Ask children to tell where relatives live to make this meaningful.
http://www.indo.com/distance/
2. Use mail that your students receive from relatives
and friends to compare distance. This site will tell you the distance based
on Zip Codes!
http://link-usa.com/zipcode/
3. Make maps showing where each student in class lives.
Use the “Driving Instructions” portion of Mapblast to plot the route between school
and each student address. The maps can then be used to make up story problems.
http://www.mapblast.com/yt.hm?FAM=mapblast&SEC=start
4. Mapquest is another site similar to MapBlast.
http://www.mapquest.com/
5. Search for each child’s given name in the records of the US
Census Bureau. The large numbers will be perfect for second graders
learning about place value. The results can also be graphed.
http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/namesearch.html
2. Compare nutritional
information for fast foods...okay, PBS has hidden what was a
really cool lesson plan. You might try to search for it... or
you can just browse through their math lessons! If I find
the lesson, I'll try to post it here later. I WISH sites
wouldn't change URLs!
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1. Use the Little Explorers dictionary
page in kindergarten. When you introduce centers, show the home page
(or a copy of the page on a large poster). Tell the children that they are going
to use the computer find out which alphabet letter is the most popular. Give each
child a card with a different alphabet letter and a blank space. The child goes to the Little Explorers site (bookmarked or already available on the screen) and clicks on her/his alphabet letter. After counting the entries for the letter and writing the number on the space, the child may “surf” to one site off of the Little Explorers dictionary page. When the class meets again after center time, compare the numbers, graph the numbers, or make up story problems. (If the letters X and Y put their entries together, would they have more than U?)
http://www.littleexplorers.com/Dictionary.html
1. Use the beanie babies site to graph favorites.
(Be sure to place some limits here, since there are SO MANY beanie babies.)
For older kids, graph the entire collection according to color or number of
legs or how many students in class own them!
http://www.ty.com/beanie/list/current.html
1. For kindergartners, show the carnival toy website
on the computer. Then let the students go to centers to “spend” money to
purchase carnival toys. (Carnival toys are probably the only items that the
right prices for “beginner-money-counters!”)
http://www.ustoyco.com/carnival.html
There are many possibilities with these map sites: for kindergarten,
comparing distances on a map (greater than, less then), for first graders,
counting blocks between destinations, for second graders, making up word problems
using the maps.
http://www.weather.com/
1. This site gives the nutritional
information of candy bars.
http://www.bradkent.com/wrappers/bar-by-abc.html
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math/
2. Ask Dr. Math is a collaborative site.
(Mostly for older kids, but you may want to look into it to understand the concept!)
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/
B. E-mail penal projects and postcard projects can incorporate a lot of math. Estimating, graphing, comparing daily mail amounts, etc. etc.
1. 100 email letters
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/mail/descrip.htm
2. E-pals
http://www.epals.com/search/
C. Flat Stanley, Traveling Ted, and Backpack Buddies
2. NickNacks listing
http://home.talkcity.com/academydr/nicknacks/
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