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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.

Online Safety
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.

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.

Web-based Activity - Planning Template
From Internt4Classrooms.

Internet Scavenger Hunts/WebQuests
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 from Mrs. O's House
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.     

AppleQuest
A WebQuest about growing apples!

American Dreams through the Decades
Investigate the American dream on-line. See the other lesson plans from this site.

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.

Computer Art Lessons
Several interesting lesson plans from Lesson Plan Central.

Computer Art Using MS Paint
Eight lesson plans.

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!

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.

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 Young Author WebQuest and Literature-Based WebQuests.

WebQuests on Literature
More literature WebQuests rom Nellie's English Projects.

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 Americans WebQuest.

Writing Skills WebQuest
A group project for high school students. See also Persuasive Writing WebQuest.

Working the Puzzle Called Parts of Speech.
A WebQuest in which students review the parts of speech.

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.

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 many WebQuests for a variety of grade levels. See also WebQuests - Math.

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.

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.

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.

Learning from Lyrics
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.

Volcanoes Online
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. See their lesson plans.

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.

Hello Dolly
A WebQuest examining the ethics of cloning.

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

American Dreams Through the Decades
Investigate the American dream on-line. See other lesson plans from The Library of Congress.

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.

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. See their other lesson plans using primary sources.

The Berlin Wall Information Scavenger Hunt

Crisis During the Cold War
A WebQuest for 10th grade. See also The Cold War.   

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 WebQuest. See also Crusades Propaganda WebQuest and Medieval Crusades.  

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 also Middle East Religion WebQuest and Lessons from the World's Great Religions: A Narrative WebQuest.

Hello Dolly
A WebQuest examining the ethics of cloning.

Christmas Around the World
A lesson plan for grades 2-5 in which students use the Internet to learn about Christmas in another country.

Pilgrimage to the Holyland
A WebQuest for 4th-grade religion.

Following Saint Paul
An 8th-grade WebQuest.

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 WebQuest Project
See also 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.

Take a Trip to Mexico
An Internet-based activity from Scholastic. See also Mexican WebQuest, Moving to Mexico, and Virtual Tour of Mexico City.

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.

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
Critical Evaluation of a Web Page
A lesson plan for grades 6-8.

Evaluating Internet Resources
Another lesson plan; this one is for grades 4-6 language arts.

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.

Practice Evaluating Online Resources   
Three rubrics designed for different age groups to evaluate web sites.

Website Evaluation Check-list
An evaluation check-list for pages developed by teachers for teaching/learning purposes

Web Site Evaluation Tool
For grades 4-6. Guides for other grades are available at the top of the page.

Inquiry on the Internet: Evaluating Web Pages for a Class Collection
A high-quality lesson plan for grades 6-8 from Read-Write-Think.