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Cyber-Starters, Animals Workbook
Cyber-Starters, Rainforest
Cyber-Starters, Animals, Vol. 2
The Internet Teaching Theme
Cyber-Starters, Animals, Vol. 3
The Internet Worksheets
Cyber-Starters, Butterflies and Moths
Web Quests
Cyber-Starters, Holidays
Web Quest Generator
  1. A Place to Advertise- Students explore how some Web sites are designed as advertising environments to entertain visitors while promoting advertisers' brands and products.
  2. Check your weather using the Internet- Students will be able to access the Internet to obtain several different weather forecast to compare and contrast them.
  3. Cyberspace at School- Children explore the concept of cyberspace as a means of communicating with real people within their school.
  4. Dealing with Online Bullies- Students reflect on the rewards of cyberspace and then consider bullying scenarios in which they examine their personal comfort levels.
  5. Finding Good Sites- Students explore, evaluate, and compare children's informational Web sites, and conclude that people's opinions about the quality and usefulness of sites will vary.
  6. Good Manners Everywhere- Students discuss good manners in the real world and learn some do's and don'ts when using E-mail in cyberspace.
  7. Hey Dawg, I'm on the Internet- To create a personal website.

Cyber-Starters, Holidays

Focus on the following holidays: Martin Luther King, Groundhog Day, Presidents’ Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Earth Day, Easter, Arbor Day, Flag Day, Columbus Day, Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving, Winter, Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa.

Cyber-Starters, Rainforest

They focus on topics ranging from the levels of the rainforest to locations of rainforests to animals found in the rainforest to saving the rainforests.
  1. Homework Help in a Hurry- Students learn strategies for getting immediate help with their homework, including going online with an adult to homework help search services and reference databases.
  2. How to Cite a Site- Students learn how to write bibliographic citations for online sources following the style recommended by the Modern Language Association.
  3. How to Find Information in the Information Age- This unit of study will ask students to become familiar with the Dewey Decimal System, the many different sources of information available in libraries, and how technology can be used in the research process.
  4. Internet Lesson Plans- The following lesson plans have been set up for classroom use and are designed to teach something about the Internet, teach how to use the Internet, and teach something by using information gained from the Internet.
  5. Investigating the Holocaust: A Collaborative Inquiry Project- In this lesson plan, students explore a variety of resources—texts, images, movies, artwork—to learn more about the Holocaust.
  6. Learn our Technology Terms- Practice using the internet to gather and analyze information on the internet and learn technology vocabulary.
  7. Learning-Hunt- The students will be able to find the subject they are looking for on the computer within a 5-minute time period.
  8. My Cyberspace Neighborhood- Students explore the concept of cyberspace as a means of connecting people and explain how the ability for people to communicate can unite a neighborhood.
  9. Online Safety for teens- Students should understand online safety.
  10. Surfing Safely on the Internet Lesson Plan- Learning How to Surf the Internet.
  11. Safe Surfing on the Web- A song.
  12. Safety with Cyberpals- Students learn that they can develop rewarding online relationships, but should never reveal private identity information to a person they know only in cyberspace.
  13. Search Engine Scavenger Hunt- A training activity to teach participants how search engines might help them with their daily work.
  14. Searching the Web- In this lesson, students apply "Internet Search Skills" to sources of information they find online.
  15. Shakespeare Via the Internet- This lesson serves to develop students' Internet skills in researching a familiar topic. The lesson also serves to reinforce knowledge acquired about the topic.
  16. Technology Centers for the Integrated Technology Classroom- Designing "theme" based activities, across the curriculum, incorporating technology, to be used as centers.
  17. Understand Your Acceptable Use Policy- Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) contracts encourage responsible behavior by students and staff and give administrators enforceable rules for acceptable use of school computers.
  18. Web-Wall- The "Web-Wall" is a sort of phone book of web-sites that are brought to school, researched for content, then posted on the black-papered bulleting board, using shiny paint pens.
  19. What is a Network?- Students model a network and learn that the Internet consists of many computer networks that are able to communicate with one another.
  20. What's Private?- Children learn about the power of the Internet to facilitate collaboration among students worldwide.
  21. The World Wide Web- We do an activity where one person stands in the middle of a circle with a cardboard picture of the world and all of the other students become a computer when they put a cardboard picture of a computer around their neck.

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