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-US History (grade 11) This was developed as a collaborative effort between three teachers. Two teachers wanted to teach the class a bit differently, so two approaches are offered. more |
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- English 12 This site was developed by two English teachers as an online instructional until for the study of Shakespearean characteristics.more |
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Prototype 1998 ThinkQuest Project. A team of three students in the Web Builders' Club are building a site....etc.....The Actual site is not available until ThinkQuest . |
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- One focus of high school social studies is the use of primary resource documents. This is a major attribute of the web, it's often available. Given that any teacher may use this, I used the "print-out-and hand in" format for the lessons. The questions may be convereted to CGI if a teacher wants to make it their own, and of course, make changes. The lessons progress, the first one is a combination of information about the causes of US involvement in WW1 and an exercise in becoming familiar with using the Internet resources. The lessons include using map resources, reading digitized primary resources, newspaper articles from that time, art, and timelines. I contacted the web master at Trenches on the Web, always good to get permission) and he was thrilled to share the resource for k-12 education. Most of the WW1 sites originate in Britain. The follow up lesson is still undeveloped.
Future: The site will be updated next year if I am teaching the subject again. With the new SOL's, there may need to be changes, or emphasis. For example, the first hand experience article about the sinking of the ships by German subs may need to be changed to an article about the sinking of the Luscitania.
- This site is meant to supplement classroom instruction, but it has been used independently by students who have missed class from home. The first part is about Shakespearean Literature, the language and the characteristics of a Shakespearean Tragedy. There are lessons to be printed out and handed in. The first lesson is a general lesson about Shakespearean background using many links to explore available related sites on the Internet. There was an attempt at constructivism, and a student made up a character study about the character, Iago. It was hidden among the links and the students were to do a study on the reliability of related resouces on the web. They were to identify which resouces are reliable and to identify hidden characteristics in web based instruction that may ind