Section 3: How can the Internet be used in my classroom?

The Internet can be used in several ways in your classroom. The Internet is not only informative, but the multimedia type presentation of the WWW makes acquiring the available information easy and interesting. The following are some ways you can use the Internet in your K-12 classroom:

• Searching for information - Internet browsers, such as Netscape Navigator make finding information about a specified topic easier to find by using search engines;
• Communicating with students, teachers, mentors, parents, instructors, and friends via electronic mail;
• Newsgroups allow us to read news about specified topics;
• Listservs are an easy way to communicate with others on a common topic;
• Computational modeling and compiling programs.
  

Lesson Plan Sites

There are many good sites for lesson plans. Here are a few:

http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009

Web Sites and Resources for Teachers

 

http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/index.html

Indexed list of lesson plans

 

http://ericir.syr.edu

Ask Eric Education Information with the Personal Touch

 

http://nwlink.com/~wxdude

The Weather Dude - A Seattle TV weather forecaster invites young students to sing the weather song with him, test his weather knowledge, or jump to one of numerous other links.

 

http://www.classroomconnect.com/

Classroom Connect

 

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov

The Internet in the Classroom

 

http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html

Web66 Registry of School Web Sites

 

http://gsn.org

On-line projects/Classroom implementation strategies