6-8 WIREDMay 2000 by Denise Hogan
Welcome! This column is written for teachers of and
students in grades 6-8, with the goal of using the Internet for curriculum everyday.
WHAT'S NEW ON "Feasting on
the Internet"
This is part of a mentorship, with a full website.
Please link there for more! All Internet activities written are curriculum and
standards based and have student products required.
 Gladiator
- Students read an article, view Roman mosaics, and read primary written sources about the
currently hot topic of ancient Roman gladiators.
They are asked to make a descriptive poster or brochure that describes their
thoughts on the events.
You
Need a Bath - there's lots going on at the Roman bath
besides bathing. Students take a virtual tour of the Baths of Caracalla, taking notes as
they go. They read primary sources on the Roman baths and survey now strange
sounding Roman recipes When off-line students will write a detailed letter to
a friend back at their middle school to tell about their day at the baths.
Fantasy
Fish - Students work with text and online resources to investigate four marine
habitats and the organisms that live there. Then they design a new fish that would
be suited to thrive in that environment. Students write a report on their fictitious
fish as though they have discovered it, make a model, and do a presentation. (Photo
of our classroom aquarium will be online by June 3.) -
This project is part of a larger interdisciplinary unit
that was funded by the National Science Foundation. Email me for more information on
several more science labs, hypterstudio real fish report outline and instruction, or
gyotaku fish printing activity. Additionally there are language activities written
by my teammate. Denise Hogan
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Internet Integration into the Classroom with an End-of-the-year Online Group Project |
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Occupation, Destination,
Presentation. This is designed as a culminating Social Studies project for the
study of ancient history in 6th grade.
In this project, students will roll play a scenario in which Al Mytee Dollar, an
incredibly wealthy computer entrepreneur, has asked them to assemble a team and embark on
an
extraordinary search around the world. He has finished his
multimillion-dollar home, which contains six enormous
mural-size walls. Therefore, Mr. Dollar wants to display
huge images of the most meaningful, awe-inspiring early
people's accomplishments.
The tasks for the students are divided into three sections,
Occupation, Destination, and Presentation. Students will
begin Occupation work by researching careers on-line and
write business letters to ask for information in order to
become experts in their field, which gives them the needed
expertise to make this extraordinary find.
In the Destination section of this project students will begin
by using geography skills to plan their fictitious itinerary for
their field research, and plot it on a world map. They will
each work in a specialty area visiting Internet sites that will
provide them with rich and dynamic resources. These sites
will enrich their yearlong study in ancient civilizations.
Students will keep a "Weblog" (which we think we coined),
is a record of structured activities written for each
designated site on our THIS project WebPage.
Finally, the Presentation section of the project allows the
students to work in their groups to fill in graphic organizers
and then make consensus decisions about the most valuable
contributions of each civilization. Using images that can be
downloaded from Internet sites, they will present their
findings to the class, as though they are reporting back to
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| This project was
funded by a PUSD RiskTaker Grant in the summer of 1998. It has been used very
successfully by over 250 students at MVMS. |
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