Using Technology in the Content Areas by Rob Curry

Integrate the web in your class

Integrate the web in your class Students and their families will be kept up to date with the assignments of the project and they will share the results through the class web page. Web pages are also printed for those students without internet access at home. http://www.everyschool.org/u/vinci/rcurry/thisweek.html

Ways to use the Internet Web Quests to enrich the curriculum!

Use What is already there You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Use what others have done! Not More Work-- Just Smarter Work!

Available Resources www.bigchalk.com www.ajkids.com/teachers www.wordcentral.com www.infoplease.com

Social Studies Units Assumed Colonial Identity www.sjteach.org/colonial2002.html Native American Tribes http://www.everyschool.org/u/global/rdcurry/5th_nativeam1.htm Explorers http://www.everyschool.org/u/vinci/rcurry/exploration.html State Reports http://www.everyschool.org/u/global/rdcurry/statereportguide.html

Science Units Matter: It’s Elemental http://www.sjteach.org/matter.html Fast Food Nutrition http://www.sjteach.org/matter.html Solar System http://www.everyschool.org/u/vinci/rcurry/planetproject.html

Language Arts Literature Units: In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson http://www.everyschool.org/u/vinci/rcurry/boar1.html Hatchet http://everyschool.org/u/vinci/hatchet/001.html Little House on the Prairie http://www.everyschool.org/u/vinci/littlehouse/index.html