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The following are examples of instructional sites:
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Treasure Hunt:
Develop an activity that will get your
students searching for specific information. Award prizes for the first correct
answer found. You and your students can have fun while they are learning some
critical thinking skills. This should be designed either as an authentic
learning or problem-based learning activity. As students are involved in
well-designed activities, they are discovering how to become information
literate which is vital for their future success. Point your students to a
specific site or a hotlist of several sites and ask your students to find
specific information at that site(s).
You can check out these activities and use
one of them in your classroom or develop your own!
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Treasure Hunt -
Choose from several curriculum related examples of treasure hunts.
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http://www.cyberbee.com/treasure.html
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Home Page:
Design a home page to use as an extension of your classroom
activities. You may incorporate any or all of the activities from the
other types of web pages to create a site custom-designed to support
your classroom curriculum.
| View Candler's home page. Notice the simplicity of design and
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http://home.att.net/~candlers/index.htm
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Hotlist:
The Internet offers not only a wealth of
information, but it gives your students an opportunity to contact people who
specialize in certain curriculum or topic areas. Before sending a question to an
expert, your class should research the questions and try to find the answer
using searching strategies before submitting questions to the experts.
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an Expert -
This is a hotlist of several experts that you can ask about many different
topics.
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http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html
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Informational
Articles
If you are looking for a great web site on a
particular topic or curriculum area, there are educational sites that have
already done the leg work for you. These sites have collected and organized
exemplary web sites for schools and have put them in a searchable database . If
you don't want your students to search for information, but want to point them
to specific web sites that you have already researched, then check these
databases out and see which one best fits your curriculum needs.
| Early Childhood Education and Activity Resources
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http://www.theideabox.com/
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Web Based Activity
Page
Another way to develop an activity that will
get your students searching for specific information while honing their
searching skills, is by posing a question and seeing if they can find the
answer. This activity uses an inquiry based form of learning. Check
out examples for these activities and use one of them in your room or create one
of your own. You can create a question of the day, of the week, or even of the
month by using this format.
| Where in the World is Cynthia San Francisco? Using Internet based resources, students are challenged to find the location of
Cynthia San Francisco. Clues that will lead students to her location come from
real-time weather data, such as satellite images, weather stations and current
weather maps.
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http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/weather/c3whome.html
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