Educational Websites

What is an educational website?

• An educational website is a source of Internet-based digital content specifically designed with K-12 learning goals in mind. There are thousands of educational websites created and maintained by colleges and universities, historical and scientific organizations, museums, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, for-profit companies, and interested individuals. The best educational sites provide high-quality professional and instructional resources for teachers and engaging learning activities for students.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

http://nlvm.usu.edu

Math activities featuring short, interactive computer programs that explore mathematical concepts and operations are available on this site from researchers at Utah State University. The NLVM is a resource from which teachers may practice to improve their mathematics classrooms. The tools are also useful for the mathematical training of both in-service and pre-service teachers.

Topic of Interest: Counting Chart

Beginners need lots of practice with counting. This website includes exercises

(such as counting by 2’s,4’s, 10’s, etc..) to help students recognize the

structure of counting numbers. One of the goals of any counting exercise with

this kind of chart is the observation of patterns.

← In this example, students will practice counting by clicking on numbers in the chart. The first number is highlighted in blue. Practice counting by clicking on the next number in the counting sequence. If you click correctly, the number is highlighted in blue, otherwise in red.

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EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web

http://edsitement.neh.gov

Created by the National Endowment got the Humanities, this site offers instructional resources in art and culture, literature and language arts, foreign languages, and history and social studies. All websites linked to EDSITEment have been reviewed for content, design, and educational impact in the classroom. They cover a wide range of humanities subjects, from American history to literature, world history and culture, language, art, and archaeology, and have been judged by humanities specialists to be of high intellectual quality. EDSITEment is not intended to represent a complete curriculum in the humanities, nor does it prescribe any specific course of study.

Topic of Interest: The Phoenicians and the Beginnings of the Alphabet

Introduction: This first lesson of the curriculum unit, The Alphabet is Historic, will be about the Phoenicians, who invented the alphabet inherited by the Greeks, Romans, and eventually, us.

Background: The Phoenicians were a trading people who came from the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. Their two main cities were Sidon and Tyre. They had very wonderful ships, built with timber from Lebanon, and they traded in all sorts of good things: metals, cloth, purple dye, fine jewelry and craft work, salt, wine and olives, grain, and many other things. The Phoenicians were sailors and city dwellers, and as they grew more and more prosperous and populous they did not spread out into the land as other people might. Rather, they founded many new cities, or colonies, all around the Mediterranean Sea.

Grade(s) K-2

Subject(s) Foreign Language, Literature and Language Arts, Art and Culture, History and Social Studies

Length of Lesson 3-4 class periods

Learning Objectives • Describe the Phoenicians as a trading people who lived long ago on the shores of the Mediterranean.• Understand that the Phoenicians invented the first form of our alphabet.• Say why the alphabet was important for the Phoenicians.• Compare some of the Phoenician letters to our letters.• Write a short paragraph (with the teacher or alone) on a topic related to learning or using the Phoenician alphabet.

Assessment Conclude the lesson by asking the children to identify Phoenicia and the Mediterranean Sea on the map. Can the children trace the route from Tyre to Athens? Can they show the Phoenician colonies? Ask the children what sorts of things the Phoenicians loaded onto their boats to trade. Ask the children who invented the alphabet that would someday become our alphabet. Why would a trading people need an alphabet? Can they remember some of the letters the Phoenicians invented that we still use?

Skills • Compare and contrast• Critical thinking• Discussion• Gathering, classifying and interpreting written, oral and visual information• Historical analysis• Making inferences and drawing conclusions• Map Skills• Representing ideas and information orally, graphically and in writing• Visual analysis

Topic of Interest (continued) : Lesson Plan- The Phoenicians and the Beginnings of the Alphabet

National Geographic Kids

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com

National Geographic Kids is a children's magazine published by the National Geographic Society. The site of this magazine offers games, videos, stories, and activities designed to promote understanding of geography around the world.

Topic of Interest: Hurricanes

A hurricane is a swirling mass of wind, rain, thunder, and chaos. They begin over tropical and subtropical ocean water. It starts when warm water, moist air, and strong winds collide and create a rotating bundle of thunderstorms and clouds. A hurricane might last a few hours or several days. Some hurricanes roar onto land bringing punishing wind, torrential rain, walls of water, even tornados. The wind, rain, and water surge wreak havoc on the coastline and damage hundreds of miles inland. Violent winds flip cars, sink boats, and rip houses apart. Hurricane winds range from 74 miles an hour (119 kilometers an hour) to 150 miles an hour (241 kilometers an hour) or more. Wind creates high waves and pushes the water onto shore. The water surge can be 30 feet high. Storm surges cause most of the fatalities and damage. Hurricanes also bring rain. Hurricane rains cause landslides, flash floods, and long-term floods.Because meteorologists can predict and track hurricanes, people living in a hurricane's path can stay safe by advance preparation, including an evacuation plan, creating an emergency kit with food, water, and other supplies and most importantly by listening to local authorities on the best ways to stay safe.

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My name is Rola Hamadi. The course I’m taking is CIS 221, Instructional Technology for Elementary Teachers. In the future, I want to become a 1st grade math teacher. I feel that it would be the best job for a mother. I have a 7 month old baby boy and in a few more years I would love to expand my family.

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