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Guided Online Research Tools
TrackStar
TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track. From HPR*TEC, the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium.
Filimentality
Filamentality is trying to be more than just a Web site that will make you a Web site. There are plenty of good "HTML" programs out there for making Web pages. What Filamentality's trying to do is help students, teachers, and librarians create Web pages that encourage real, active learning. To do this, Filamentality is ready, willing and able to make you five different kinds of Web-based learning pages depending upon the goal you have for users of your Web page. From Pacific Bell.
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The WebQuest Page
WebQuests are cross-curricular activities that require students to answer questions using information they find online. The WebQuest site links to over 200 WebQuests designed by educators who are incorporating computer technology into their classrooms.
Creating A WebQuest: It's Easier than You Think
This article by the editors at Education World describes the growing body of online projects known as WebQuests. Learn why teachers consider WebQuests valuable teaching tools and then discover how to create your own. There are lots of recommended resources if you need additional help.
A City in Space
Encourage your class to climb aboard the International Space Station. They'll have to undergo training and complete activities to earn their stay so they'd better study hard for the astronaut training! This Webquest is suitable for high school students.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Your fourth and fifth graders will love this cooperative learning activity, in which the baseball commissioner needs to determine which of the league's divisions he should visit. Students must analyze division and team statistics to make a recommendation.
Time Travelers
It's up to your middle school class to recreate the types of documents contained in a destroyed time capsule. Assign the roles of correspondent, reporter, editor, and commentator to create a newspaper that reports the events of the era.
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