I.S. 116 Draft Agenda
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Day One
:  Intro. to the Internet as a Research Tool, Critical Evaluation of Web Sites

Web Sites to Critically Evaluate:

The History Place

History Central

Archiving Early America

Colonial Hall

The American Civil War Homepage

Discovery Channel -- Planet Earth

Ask a Geologist

Visible Earth

Earth Ed:  Earth Science Education Resources (use any link)

The Nine Planets

Museum of Paleontology


Day Two:  Using reference sites to search for information on your topic:

Kids Click!

Study Web

Day Three:  Super Searching the Internet

Day Four:  Talk about what software is available to the students and how they can use various pieces of software to help them research, write, work with data, create, and present, various parts of their exit projects.

Successive Days:  Students will work on projects, using various software -- spreadsheets/graphs, wordprocessing, multimedia presentation, etc.  I will guide students/teachers to appropriate software and usage and teach software skills and help find good web sites as necessary.

Interim:  Work with teachers on various software skills during preps., etc.

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