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I teach in the Masters Program of Phoenix University, Vancouver BC campus. Here is a list of links to lesson plans and tutorials put together by and for my students in my EDD 540C Integrating Technology into Education course delivered in the Spring 2001 for the University of Phoenix, Vancouver Campus.

These teachers also created their own lesson plans on how to integrate information technology into their classrooms. Take a look and if these lesson plans are useful to you, feel free to use them, just let me know if you have used or plan to use them so I can pass the information along to the teachers . You can contact me by Emailing me!

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1. Guide for the Mining Co.'s Geography This site includes weekly articles about geography, annotated links to hundreds of the best sites for maps and geographical information, an online world atlas, a glossary, weekly quizzes, a bulletin board and chat room for those interested in geography, a free email newsletter, and much more. The site currently includes over 800 pages.
2. bilingual kids Easy-to-Learn Spanish and French Children's Songs
3. Revisontime.com is a free-to-use education portal for students, parents and teachers. Revisontime complements, enriches and broadens the learning experience by providing high quality information via links to other great sites. Revisontime is popular in schools and is used not only in the UK but also worldwide. My thanks to David Parker for this link suggestion.
4. The wNetStation an award-winning Web site of public broadcaster Thirteen/WNET in New York, wants teachers to bring the "Savage Earth" into their classrooms. In November, teachers can find original lesson plans for "Nature" and "Savage Earth" on (wNetSchool . These include software projects in which students learn to make their own GIF animations, demonstrating the nature of volcanos, plate tectonics, or earthquakes.
5. Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda offers free teaching materials and an interactive Web site as part of its ninth TV season focusing on science and technology. The program is under written by GTE. Educators for students grades 5-12 are invited to join the school program, which includes free companion teaching guides and off-air videotaping rights. Sign up by calling 800.315.5010 or by visiting their Web site.
6. Focus on Classroom Use of the InternetMost of the sites in this section focus on providing background information on how teachers can use the Internet in their classroom. Resources include explanations, examples, suggestions, self-instructional tutorials (lessons), and discussion groups.
7. Wired for Books is hosted by Ohio University Telecommunications Center and is suitable for English/Language Arts students in grades K-12 Authors such as Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain all are featured on this site. "Real Audio" video and audio clips will allow your students to choose from a variety of commentaries and help interest some of your students that otherwise may not be interested in reading the classics. New site as of February 13, 1999 6:17:26 PM
8. The Scavenger Hunt web This site contains background information on what a scavenger hunt is, why you would use on with your students, examples of actual school hunts you can use to start with, how to create your own scavenger hunt, and a completed astronaut scavenger hunt. New site as of February 13, 1999 6:17:26 PM
9. Hoagies' Gifted Education Page At my school we have been looking at setting up programs for the gifted child. This site would be beneficial to all teachers and parents of Gifted Children. Some of the ideas could be used with an entire classroom as well. New site as of February 13, 1999 6:17:26 PM
10. Lesson Plans and Activities. is a place to come when looking for links to lesson plans in also almost any curricular area including the Arts, Language Arts, Inter-Multi-Disciplinary, Math, Science, Social Studies, Technology
11. Newbie-U At last! There finally is an easy answer to all those "Hey, I'm finally on the Net! Now how exactly do you..." calls from friends and relatives. Just send them to NU (and make sure they do their Homework). The New Bee (get it?):-) teaches them all about the Internet, including FTP, e-mail, Usenet, IRC, and Web surfing. Great site for teachers who want their students to learn about the net.
12. Biographies of Women MathematiciansThese pages are part of an on-going project to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. There are biographical essays or comments on most of the women mathematicians and some photos (which look best at more than 256 colors). Our goal is for this list to continue to expand, and for more biographies to be completed
13. The Northeast Georgia Network This site has a wide variety of topics to choose from Weather, Mars, Mission, Current Events, Genealogy, Fun Sites, Trading Post, Teachers Site--This site is for use of teachers and educators in Northeast Georgia and the Carolinas, Career Exploration--This page contains links to Job and Career opportunities on the Internet. This page contains all of the links that the State of Georgia, Department of Education recommends to its Middle and High School Counselors, Newspapers TV Stations, Real Estate, Northeast GA Yellow Pages, Joke of the Day
    My thanks to Mike Hurley for this link idea.
14. Organizing and Facilitating Telecollaborative Projects (Judi Harris, UIUC) From the "Mining the Internet" column of The Computing Teacher, advice from an expert: "When designing an online activity, it is very important to be sure that the student learning goals that you specify for the activity are tied directly to the curriculum, [and] could not be accomplished at all, or as well, using more traditional teaching/learning tools."
15. Classroom ConnectWith online lesson plans, a message board, email lists, newsletter articles, and an exclusive Teacher Search database, Connected Teacher has become a thriving community for people who care about education.

    Here is a some more list of NASA sites which have excellent K-12 lesson plans and other curricular resources. This bunch of sites are from Mr. Al Bodzin.

16. NASA's educational products available on Spacelink
17. NASA's Learning Technology Project
18. NASA Classroom of the Future
19. Liftoff to Space Exploration
20. Microgravity Science Research Space Shuttle Missions Lithograph Series
21. Microgravity Science Research Discipline Lithograph Series
22. NASA Space Life Science Outreach
23. NeurOn - Neurolab Online Cassini: Voyage to Saturn Mission to Geospace International Solar-Terrestrial Physics
24. Ulysses Mission to the Sun
25. Lunar Prospector
26. Imagine the Universe!
27. MAP - Microwave Anisotropy Probe
28. Stanford Solar Center
29. Sunspots
30. NASA's Origins Program Above Courtesy of Alec M. Bodzin, The SERVIT Group Dept.of Math, Science and Technology Education North Carolina State University. You can email Mr. Bodzin by clicking on his name. Alec M. Bodzin or you can visit his homepage: by clicking here.
31. THE TECH MUSEUM "Wow, daddy! Look at the 5 1/4-inch floppy on that 286!" At the Tech Museum in San Jose, California, exclamations such as those might actually be commonplace. Scary? Ah, it's all in your perspective. Curious? Check out the recently revamped official site of the museum, with profiles of industry pioneers, a PC Web-cyclopedia, top sites, and scores of other online exhibits. Educators will love some of the new sections geared especially to teachers, and students have plenty of interactive fare to keep them entertained as well. It's amazing to see how far technology has come and to take a peek at where it might be heading.
32. ACTION ATLAS: CORAL REEFS Mother Jones magazine and the Coral Reef Alliance in Berkeley, California, have teamed up to put together this red-alert site that calls attention (and hopefully action) to the earth's troubled coral reefs. Armchair activists, Teachers, students, and environmental crusaders will find oceans of information about where the current hot spots are and what they can do to help. Scientists predict that 70 percent of the world's reefs will be destroyed in 20 to 40 years unless we do something to preserve them. This well-designed site is a good place to start turning back the tide.
33. RETURN TO MIDWAY June 6, 1942 stands as the date of one of the fiercest sea battles in American naval history. Two U.S. ships were lost that day, but three Japanese craft went down, and the battle effectively turned the tide of World War II. Robert Ballard, the man who found the Titanic remains, is now heading an expedition three miles down into the Pacific Ocean to find the five ships lost at Midway. Wish you could join him? You can, in a way. On this new National Geographic site, visitors can take a cyberdive into the ocean, and follow along with the daily discoveries. Well designed and fascinating.
34. Animal Sounds of the WorldAnimals make much the same sounds around the world, but each language expresses them differently. English and French cows sound the same, but not in English and French! Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals. If you were raised in the USA, or Canada, then you would swear that a Pig goes "Oink," right? But you'd be wrong. Did you know that in Japan, pigs go "buubuu" or in Sweden pigs go "noff." Click on an animal or a language to learn a lesson that's larger than every barnyard on the planet: cultural diversity. A great page for kids of all ages. It also has links to other pages about language.
35. Network-Based Educational Activity Collection An excellent site, with 236 exemplary network-based educational activities, indexed by learning structure or by content domain. Harris currently directs The Electronic Emissaries Project which matches "Subject Matter Experts" with classrooms, requesting participation from various lists.
36. NeBot It appears that Wired's search engine, HotBot, now has a son. NewBot is actually an "intelligent" agent that searches the Web (on an ongoing basis) for sites that suit your interests. Go ahead and download and use it for finding sites of interest to you.
37. Make It Happen! A clean and well-linked constructivist project guide, similar to others in pedagogy well formatted full of examples and testimonials.
38. Keys to a Successful Project Want to conduct an exciting collaborative learning project online? Here are some guidelines which may help you organize and advertise your project idea.
39. Interdisciplinary Team Organization: Project Ideas Media-literate, creative, inspiring thematic units developed during the 1995-1996 school year. Example: The Beast Within, a curriculum guide to the study of "the darker side of human nature as explored by the literature and history of 20th century man", including the Holocaust.
40. Let's Go Around the World This site consists of language arts & curriculum-based "learning adventures" focusing on Africa and the Amazon rain forest. It is designed for elementary/middle school aged children and their teachers/parents and it currently features color photography, illustrated stories, poetry, student art and writing from around the world, and a Teacher's Page connecting the content to all areas of the curriculum. This site is from Creative Connections, and should be checked out.
41. Academy One provides comprehensive educational resources, projects, discussions, interactions, collaborations, lessons, curriculums, and standards for grades K-12. Winner of the U.S. Department of Education Funds for Innovation in Education Award #R215J40024-95
42. Superkids Surfing for TeachersA service of Super Kids Want to know what's new for teachers on the net, but don't have the time to spend surfing? Then check out these "way cool" sites!
43. Bellingham School DistrictWelcome. This site is one of the best educational sites on the Web and it contains: Explorers of the World Internet Lists, Online Research Projects Virtual Field Trips, News, Weather, Bellingham Photographs Schools, District Offices, Job Postings, About the District Library, Clip Art, Maps, Searching, Teaching Resources Curriculum Pages, Staff Development Plans, Design Tenets, Tech Assessment Virtual Museums, Student Art, Student Writing Board Policies, Web Rules, Tech Plan and Library Documents Search with HotBot, AltaVista OR Yahooligans
44. Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction Education Library Resource List.This page lists over 130 Web sites in Wisconsin libraries and other library-related sites in the state.
45. Ask ERIC Lesson Plans Web Page includes lesson plans from 1996 on in various subject areas and includes links to Televison Series Companion Materials, Chinese Historical and Cultural Project lesson plans, NASA SIR-C Education Program and Crossroads
46. BJ Pincbecks Homework Helper is a page constructed by a young boy and his father. They have found more than 380 terrific sites on the internet that can help you find any information that you need.
47. Elementary Science Center is a General Science resources for the elementary school science teacher. Scroll down to "Lesson Plans by grade level" to access over 90 lesson plans on everything from Exploring Color to constructing a Mini Sundial. The goal of elementary science is to awaken the joy of discovery in each child that results in a scientific literacy for all learners.
48. Science and Math on the Net - Lesson Plans These lesson plans were completed by teams of science teachers, math teachers, technology teachers and librarians participating in the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation sponsored Science and Math on the Net (SAM-NET) workshop held at Kent State University in August of 1994. It includes links and a newsletter.
49. Physical Science Activity Manual contains 34 hands-on activities to bring excitement to your classroom. You can download the Mac (MS Word) version of the entire manual or the entire Windows (Wordperfect), or a PDF version. Individual chapters may be downloaded by clicking the appropriate version beside the title.
50. Canoe CANOE is recognized as the top World Wide Web site in Canada. This site has won numerous awards, including being named 1996 multimedia site of the year at the Canadian Internet Awards, it was selected among the top 20 sites in the world by the esteemed American Journalism Review, the only Canadian site to place there. CANOE is the first online choice of Canadians for up-to-the-minute news, sports, entertainment and business content and services, and to be a place where Canadians can feel part of a national Canadian online community.
51. Cyberteen Young people all over the world make Cyberteens a sharing, caring space. When a teen posts a message on the Cyberteens b-board about a problem he or she is having, the Cyberteen community jumps in with support and helpful information. For example, when someone asked what to do about a friend afflicted with an eating disorder, many teens gave advice from their own experiences, and the editors published links to anorexia and bulimia Web sites.
    Cyberteens is a place for teen creativity to flourish while getting feedback from others. Cyberteens think of the Cyberteens Connection b-board as a work of art, their own collaborative interactive creation. They make it shine.
52. CyberkidsLaunched in November 1994 Cyberkids published original creative work from Mountain Lake Software's First Annual Kids' International Writing and Art Contest. Their goal is to create and promote youth community worldwide, and give kids a voice and an interactive place to express their creativity. Young people all over the world make Cyberkids a sharing, caring space. Cyberkids is kids' own corner of a new world.
53. Public Broadcasting Service links to educational programs, materials for classroom use, and PBS member stations.
54. Smithsonian Institution has some fun and interesting material available on-line. You can have the Smithsonian "read to you" by downloading the software.
55. Search Engine Advice is a site that provides advice on which search engines and when and how to use them.

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