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Internet Tutorials and Resources
Welcome
to the Web
Need help using the Internet? This is a good place
to find it. See also
The Living Internet
and
Finding Information on the Internet.
Internet Beginner's
Guides and Tutorials
A long list from refdesk.com.
Stay Safe Online
From Microsoft.
Internet4Classrooms
Many resources for teachers. Take a look at their
Online Practice Modules.
Using the Internet
A lesson plan designed to teach Internet use. Though the
intended audience is community college
students, this well-designed lesson seems
adaptable to other age groups.
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get!)
A project in which students learn how to tell
if a web site is reliable.
Web Teacher
A web tutorial for
teachers.
Writing HTML
A tutorial for teachers.
Net Lingo
A dictionary of online words.
Template for Writing a Web Guide (Internet-Based Lesson)
From
Internt4Classrooms.
Altering Text Size, Color, and Font
A K-1 Lesson plan.
Sites with Internet-Based Lesson Plans for
Multiple Subjects
EDSITEment
Many high-quality lesson plans from
The National Endowment for the Humanities
that utilize online resources from some of the world's
great museums, libraries, cultural institutions
and universities.
Comm Tech Lab
Many lesson plans organized by subject
from MSU. See their
home page.
Track Star
A very large collection of web-based resources and activities
organized by grade level and subject.
Blue Web'n
Scroll down the page for
links to a large number of lesson plans in
all curricular areas.
Scholastic Online
Activities
Web-based activities in language arts, math, science, and social
studies.
Small Planet
Communications
An interesting collection of innovative on-line learning modules
as well as information about the services
Small Planet offers.
Internet Activities for
Foreign Languages
Many lesson plans for Spanish and
French as well as a few for German, Italian,
Chinese, Japanese, Latin, and ESL.
EconRdLink
Internet-based economics lesson
plans for K-12.
Teaching with
Documents
Excellent Lesson plans from the
National Archives of the United States using reproducible
copies of primary documents available online!
Cyberbee Curriculum
Ideas
Interesting examples of web-based
classroom projects and lessons.
West Elementary
Internet Projects
Projects developed by Loogootee
Elementary West that use the
Internet.
BrainPOP Jr.
Lots of online activities for K-3 students.
KET's Internet
Projects List
Classroom projects organized by subject matter.
Web Guides
Internet-Based lesson plans written with the
WebGuide Template
from
Internt4Classrooms.
Internet Scavenger Hunts/WebQuests
WebQuests Across the Curriculum
More than 350 WebQuests
and WebQuest resources.
WebQuest Directory
Links to many WebQuests organized by grade and subject.
WebQuest Index
Another set of links.
Trumbull County,
Ohio Internet Scavenger Hunts
Links to many different
Internet scavenger hunts, including
some developed by Trumbull County teachers
Internet Hunt
Activities Created by Cindy O' Hora
Many Internet
scavenger hunts organized by topic.
Scavenger Hunts:
Searching for Treasure on the Internet
A sampling of
Internet scavenger hunts, links to additional
sources, and articles from
Education
World.
Some Thoughts
About WebQuests
A definition, critical attributes,
examples, design steps, and references.
Math WebQuests
Links
to many math WebQuests.
AppleQuest
A WebQuest about growing
apples!
American Dreams
through the Decades
Investigate the American
dream on-line.
1930s WebQuest
Unit
Depression-era lesson plan using Internet resources.
Berlin Wall Information Scavenger Hunt
Searching for
China
An inquiry-based WebQuest dealing with US foreign policy toward
China.
German-American
Internet Scavenger Hunt
A site I developed for Rocori Middle School German Day.
Egyptian Scavenger
Hunt
A scavenger hunt in the form of a crossword puzzle.
Art lesson Plans Using the Internet
Eyes on Art
Seven on-line art activities.
Computers
Art Lessons
Several interesting lesson plans from
"Crayons and Computers."
The Art Teacher Connection
Lesson plans and resources for integrating computer
teschnology and the visual arts.
Fun With Colors
on the Internet
A kindergarten lesson plan.
Introduction
to Photoshop
A tutorial from
KinderArt.
Electronic Pizza
A lesson plan for grades
5-6.
Artists'
Self-Portraits
A
WebQuest.
Landscape Painting:
Artists Who Love the Land
Two lesson plans for the middle grades and above from
Smithsonian Education.
See their other
Art and Design Lesson Plans.
A. Pintura Art
Detective
Online art history adventure
for kids.
Leonardo's
Workshop
An
online art adventure!
The Refriferator
Online art contest for kids
Inside Art
An
online art history game.
Art History for
Kids
More on-line art history
activities for kids.
Language Arts Lesson Plans Using the Internet
SCORE Cyberguide
Language Arts Lesson Plans
A huge collection of standards-based,
web-delivered units
of instruction centered on core works of
literature. Click on one of the grade levels
on the side to access the list of units.
Web Trails
A primary-grade lesson in
which students explore hiking and
trails on the web while participating in activities
that correspond to a reading unit.
AppleQuest
An elaborate WebQuest
about growing apples!
The Day I Was
Born
A lesson plan for grades
4-6 in which students collect, record,
and organize cross-curricular information,
culminating in collaboration with schools
from around the world to share data via
the Internet.
School Newspaper
Unit
A unit for intermediate
to high school grades in which students research and
write articles that will be published
in an electronic newspaper.
Welcome to Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory
An Internet-based elementary lesson
plan.
Ann Frank WebQuest
See also
The Diary of Ann Frank Internet
Activity.
Summer of My German
Soldier
A webquest in which students
learn about the historical context of this
novel.
Evaluating Call of the Wild
An Internet-based lesson for 8th-grade.
Cry, the Beloved
Country (Alan Paton)
Five Internet-based activities for this book by
Alan Paton
Ernest Hemingway,
A Farewell to Arms, and the Internet Connection
An 11th-grade lesson plan.
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
A WebQuest.
WebQuests
based on Literature
An
annotated list of links to many literature WebQuests.
See also
Mrs. Kramp's WebQuests
and
Literature-Based WebQuests.
Dissecting a
Story
An online activity that compares
the analysis of a story to a science
dissection!
Edgar Allan Poe: An Author Unit
An Internet-based unit. Click
here
for
a Poe Webliography.
E School
Ancient Greece Resource Page
Six Internet-based lessons.
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
A
biography WebQuest. See also
Famous
American.
Writing
Skills WebQuest
A group
project for high school students. See also
Technical
Writing WebQuest.
Working
the Puzzle Called Parts of Speech.
A WebQuest
in which students review the parts of speech.
WebQuest: The Power of Persuasive
Writing
A middle
school WebQuest.
Language Arts Units and Activities
A long list from
Comm Tech Lab.
Essay Exchange
Unit
A unit from the above site
for grades 10-12 in which students
write position papers, then transmit them via e-mail
to other schools and
educators who, in turn, will provide criticisms,
comments, and additional sources of information
for further research.
Vocabulary University
Free online vocabulary puzzles.
Math Lesson Plans Using the Internet
Illuminations
Created by the
National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics,
this site offers
multi-media mathematics investigations,
reflections on teaching, links to the best panel-reviewed
mathematics web resources and Internet-based
lesson plans all linked to the the updated
NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
.
Online Science, Math,
and Technology Activities
Links to many
lesson plans.
Junior/Intermediate
Math
A collection of Internet resources.
Math WebQuests
Links
to several WebQuests for a variety of grade levels.
Gallery of Interactive Geometry
Mathematics of
Cartography
A lesson plan and resources for grades 7-12 on the mathematics
of map-making by Cynthia Lanius.
Click here
to find similar lesson
plans by Ms. Lanius.
Internet Lessons
Using Statistics
Six statistics-related Internet
lesson plans.
The Data and
Story Library
Interesting data for use
in statistics lessons.
Cast Your Vote
An online statistics simulation. With the 2000 presidential
election fiasco, this could be a high-interest
activity.
Probability and
Statistics Internet Projects
See also Internet Projects for
Algebra,
Geometry,
Arithmetic,
and
Calculus.
Music Lesson Plans Using the Internet
Exploring Musical Instruments Using
the Internet
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Music Inventions
An Internet-based unit for grades 4-6. See also
The Virtual
Museum of Music Inventions.
Be a Music Investigator
A 5th or 6th-grade lesson plan.
Ellington, Music,
and Color
Five middle-grade lesson plans from the
Duke Ellington
Centennial Site.
The site allows you
to listen to Ellington's music as part
of the lesson.
Making Music
and Playing the Blues
A lesson plan for grades 6-12 from Education World.
Mozart, Fibonacci,
and Pythagoras
A lesson plan for grades 10-12 which
integrates music, math, and the Internet. See also
Mozart Gazette.
Learning from Lyrics,
Music, and Society
Students use
the Internet to research contemporary songs (alternative,
country, metal, pop, rap, and rock
music) to study current social issues. They
deliver oral presentations using factual data,
graphics, and other media to interpret the song
lyrics.
Music Education
at Datadragon
On-line music tutorials
and guides.
Science Lesson Plans Using the Internet
Online Science, Math, and Technology
Activities
Links to many
lesson plans.
LetsNet Science Lesson Units
Ten Internet-based science unit.
Teacher-Developed
Earth and Space Science Lesson Plans
and Activities
From the University
of California.
AppleQuest
An elaborate WebQuest
about growing apples!
The Watershed
Game
An interactive watershed planning game for grades 4-8 from the
U of M. Though you must type in your name
to play the "game," you do not have to
register or provide your e-mail address.
Virtual Frog Dissection
Kit
Part of the Whole Frog Project.
For another online dissection activity, see
Interactive Frog
Dissection.
Future Feathered
Friends
An award-winning Internet-based lesson plan for the middle
grades which portrays a real-life scenario
in which students choose
a migratory shorebird species and determine
the causes of population decline.
Glacier National
Park Virtual Field Trip
See also the
Virtual Field Trip Page
and
Virtual Geology Field Trips.
Volcanos On Line
Interesting ThinkQuest site with on-line games and quizzes.
The Tornado Project
Online
Great site for accessing
information about tornados.
See also
Tornado!
for a middle school lesson plan.
Understanding Weather
Another middle school lesson plan.
Weather Around the World
An ongoing project compete with appropriate links.
Climate
Alesson plan for grades 3-6.
The Globe
Students from around the
world collaborate to study the global
environment.
EE Link
Environmental science on the Internet.
Journey North
Animal migration lesson
plans using the Journey North site.
Brown Snake in
the Classroom
A webquest for grades 1-3. Take a look at the
New Reptile Data Base
for information
about snakes and other reptiles.
Whales Thematic
Web Unit
Lesson plans and resources
for this on-line unit. Click
Table of Contents
to find the lesson plans.
Living in the
Manatee's World
A web-based project for the primary grades.
Fishes of Minnesota
This interactive, online quiz is a fun way to learn about fish
species.
Cow's Eye Dissection
Almost as good as the real thing! It could be used as a pre-lab
or an alternative to an actual dissection.
Review of DNA
Structure and Function
A college-level lesson plan on DNA analysis. It may also work
with advanced high school students.
Tools of DNA
Analysis
A follow-up lesson plan to the one described above.
Science WebQuests
See also
Science WebQuests
from MiddleSchool.net.
Inner Body
Human anatomy online!
Cells Alive!
See images of cells.
Visible Human
Body
A guided tour!
The Heart: An
On-Line Exploration
Heart and circulatory system,
complete with sound effects.
Amazon
Interactive
Online games and activities. Try their
Ecotourism
Game.
Ozone Hole Over
the Antarctic
An Internet lesson plan related
to the ozone layer.
Women
in Science
A webquest.
Roller Coaster
Physics
Another Webquest.
Social Studies Lesson Plans Using the
Internet
American
Educational History: A Hypertext Timeline
My
latest Web project, this annotated, clickable timeline
of American educational history extends from 1607
to the 21st Century! See the accompanying activity,
American Educational
History: What's Most Important?
Minnesota Road
Trip
An intermediate to middle grade lesson plan exploring four of
the five themes of geography (location,
place, movement, and regions) as they
relate to Minnesota through the detailed planning
of a seven-day trip around the state.
Tracking the
T-Wolves
An ongoing intermediate-grade activity designed to take advantage
of students' interest in professional sports
to help them learn about the first
of the five themes of geography: location, particularly
the location of U.S. and Canadian cities having
NBA teams.
Destination Anywhere
An Internet-based unit designed to help upper
elementary students develop a better understanding
of maps.
Go to
Social Studies
for other lesson plans from this source.
Minnesota Communities
Online explorations using primary sources from the
Minnesota Historical
Society.
Click on
teachers
for a large
selection of lesson plans on topics including
people (Ard Godfrey, John Pillsbury,
Julia Nelson, etc.), occupations (milling,
pottery, mining), landscapes (falls, river,
iron range), and milestones (Civil War, mill
explosion, dangers of mining, and many more).
Minnesota History:
A WebQuest
This 25-question WebQuest might make a good extension or culminating
activity for your Minnesota
state history unit.
Map Explorers
A WebQuest for elementary students.
See also
Geography WebQuests.
Social Studies WebQuests
A long list of links. See also
WebQuests Social Studies
for another list
Studying the
Renaissance
Web-based activities for middle and high school students.
See also
Take Me to the Faire
and
Virtual Renaissance:
A Journey Through Time.
American Dreams
Through the Decades
Investigate the American
dream on-line.
Ellis Island
Unit
A middle-grade through high school unit that allows students
to take a virtual field trip to this famous
historical site. Go to
Social Studies
for other lesson plans from this source.
National Archives
and Records Lesson Plans and Activities
Teaching activities and
lesson plans based on primary documents
in the Archives and available online.
Lessons are correlated to national standards
for history, civics, and government.
The Volstead
Act and Related Prohibition Documents
A lesson plan from the above site on
prohibition
using primary sources available via
the Internet. Though no suggested grade
level is provided, the lesson and supporting
documents would appear to be most appropriate
for secondary students.
Sioux Treaty
of 1868
Another lesson plan using historic documents from the National
Archives and Records Administration.
Creating a Timeline
for Lewis and Clark
A lesson plan for 5th grades See also
Lewis and
Clark Expedition Bicentennial.
The Valley of
the Shadow Project
The Valley of the Shadow Project looks at two communities,
one Northern and one Southern,
through the experience of the American Civil
War. The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands
of sources for the period including
newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps,
church records, population census, agricultural
census, and military records.
A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective
An Internet-based lesson plan for grades 9-12. For more
information on the Harlem Renaissance,
click here.
1930s WebQuest
Unit
Depression-era lesson plan using Internet resources.
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt's Disability: Was He Successful
in Concealing It?
A secondary-level activity in which students explore disabilities
issues within the context of FDR's
efforts to hide the extent of his disability
from the American public by examining
vintage political cartoons and photos available
on the Internet.
WW II Unit
An 8-lesson unit using primary sources from the Alabama Department
of Archives and
History.
The Berlin Wall Information Scavenger Hunt
Living the Story
Computer History
through the Internet
A WebQuest for 8th-graders.
Egyptian Internet Scavenger Hunt
World Wide Web
Lesson Plan: The White House for Kids
A 5th-grade lesson plan using the
White House Home
Page.
A Presidential
Exploration
A web-based presidential activity.
Fantasy Stock Market Game
See also
My Stocks
and EduStock.
Here Comes the
Judge
An interactive web-based lesson plan for learning about the
Supreme Court, the Justices, and landmark
decisions.
United States
vs. Thomas Cooper: A Violation of the
Sedition Law
A lesson plan using original documents accessible via the Internet.
The War in Vietnam:
A Story in Photographs
Another lesson plan using original documents accessible via
the Internet.
Geography Educators
Network of Indiana Web Project
A very good resource that includes a section titled, "What
is Geography," an annotated list
of geography links, and
Geography
Internet Lesson Plans.
The Greatest
Places
Explore seven great places
(Amazon, Greenland, Iguazu,
Madagascar, Namib, Okavango, and Tibet)
through maps, pictures, and text.
Lonely Planet:
Destinations
Information, maps, slide
show for virtually every country in the world.
Searching for
China
An inquiry-based WebQuest dealing with US foreign policy toward
China.
Six Paths to
China
Six web-based activities for learning and teaching about ancient
China.
Flying the Sankofa Bird
A WebQuest for 11th and 12th-grade
African American history.
The Africa Quiz
An on-line African Geography quiz.
Theology/Religion
The Crusades
A high school lesson plan in which students make a video about the
Crusades.
See also
8th-Grade Crusades Unit.
Catholic Online
Directory of Saints and Angels
Information about hundreds
of saints and angels. An
excellent resource for use
in Internet-based lessons.
The Vatican Home
Page
Another excellent resource
that allows your students to access
Vatican museums and archives or find information
about the Pope.
World Religions WebQuest
See alson
Peace WebQuest
and
Comparison of Religions.
Hello Dolly
A WebQuest
from the Theology and Ethics.
Christmas Around the
World
A lesson plan for grades 2-5
in which students use the Internet to learn about Christmas in
another country.
Holyland WebQuest
Jonah and the
Fish
A middle school WebQuest. See
Following Saint Paul
for another 8th-grade WebQuest.
Christian Music
WebQuest
For 9th grade. See also
Discovering Hymns WebQuest.
Judaism WebQuest
See also
A Woman's Place: A WebQuest about Jewish Women in Jewish History
and
The Maccabees and Their Place in Jewish History.
Islam and Its Place
in World History
A WebQuest. See also
Islam WebQuest Project
and Islam
WebQuest.
The Growth of
Islam
A SCORE Cyberguide providing a 7th-grade Internet-based activity.
See also
Islamic Scientific
Contributions to Civilization
for another
7th-grade activity.
World Language Lesson Plans Using the Internet
Internet Activities
for Foreign Language Classes
Great source for a large
selection of Internet-based lessons
for a variety of languages.
Ir De Compras
Por El Internet
One lesson plan from the
above site.
Das Wetter in
Deutschland
Another lesson from the
above site.
Web Spanish Lessons
Three online lessons.
Mexican Holidays
An Internet-based
lesson plan for grades 6-8.
Hispanic World
Unit
An electronic field trip.
Trip to Mexico
An Internet-based lesson plan involving planning a trip. See
also
Mexican WebQuest,
Moving to Mexico,
Virtual Tour of
Mexico City,
and
Mexico for Kids.
Peru
An Internet-based 7th-grade lesson plan.
Capturing Cuba
A Internet and technology-based lesson plan for grades 7 and
8 in which students gain specific knowledge
about Cuba, particularly its people,
the culture, and the environment.
Puerto Rico
An Internet based lesson plan for grades 7-12.
Amazon Interactive
Online activities exploring the geography of the Ecuadorian
Amazon.
Cinco de Mayo
An webquest for 8th-grade
Spanish. See also
Cinco de
Mayo for Teachers
German-American
Internet Scavenger Hunt
A site I developed for Rocori Middle School German Day. See
also
Immigrants
from Germany.
The Berlin Wall
Information Scavenger Hunt
Developed for
use in a German I class.
Pen Pals: Sources,
Forums, and Suggested Projects
Sources for e-mail pen pals and online forums in several languages.
Web Page
Evaluation
Evaluating Web
Sites
A lesson plan for grades 7-12 complete with a reproducible
worksheet.
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get!)
A project in which students learn how to tell
if a web site is reliable.
Kathy Schrock's
Critical Evaluation Page
Scroll down to Critical Evaluation
Surveys and click on the version
you want. These are excellent materials
for student web site evaluation.
Ten C's For Evaluating
Internet Sources
Internet evaluation criteria.
Guidelines for
Website Evaluation
Designed to help high school students learn how to evaluate
web sites.
Website Evaluation
Check-list
An evaluation check-list for pages developed by teachers for
teaching/learning purposes.
CyberGuide Web
Site Evaluation Guides
From Cyberbee.