ShareTechnology Integration Ideas
Classroom Ideas | Online Projects | Instructional TV - Videos
Classroom Ideas
- Technology
Tips & Tricks
Get the most out of your classroom computer.
- Task
Cards
One of the keys to effectively using the Internet in the classroom is to direct student learning. It is too easy to get lost, overwhelmed or side tracked.
- Thematic
Units
Organizing your curriculum around themes is a good way to integrate various subjects. The thematic units listed here are a mixture of global, (i.e. systems) topical, (i.e. animals) and curricular (i.e. weather.)
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Monthly Topics
If you are looking for teaching ideas for each month of the year - this is the place. - Technology
Integration Ideas
Teachers across the world are being challenged to integrate technology into their curriculum. Read ideas from other educators and adapt them for your own classroom.
Online Projects
- Animal Diaries
The purpose of this project is to give students all over the world a safe place on the web to publish stories about animals and their interaction with other living things. In addition to highlighting student writings and art, this project encourages collaboration.
- Global Grocery List
This project invites youngsters from all over to report prices on various grocery store items. Students can then compare their data with that of people in other areas, and even in other years.
- The MegaPenny Project
Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult for young people. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. penny, and building on that to answer the question: "What would a billion (or a trillion) pennies look like?"
- Ask An Expert
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Instructional TV - Videos
- Utah ITV Search Engine
Explore all of the instructional television programs aired on channel 7 and channel 9.
- Reading Rainbow
This companion site to the PBS program starring LeVar Burton features detailed program descriptions, activity suggestions, kids games, and more. Check out the UtahITV web site for the local broadcast schedule of Reading Rainbow.
- Videos of Construction
Equipment
This site offers videos of a construction equipment (bulldozers, dump trucks, excavators, etc.) It is part of the Great Picture Book of Construction Equipment Web site .
- PBS American
Field Guide
1400 video clips of the great outdoors, animals, ecosystems, plants, livelihoods, and human history.
- NASA’s
Movie Gallery
NASA has provided a videos of weather, the solar system, space flights and more. (Note the .mov files require the QuickTime plugin to be launched to play the movie.)
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