The FCIT Technology Lesson Plans for Teachers (http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/tnt/)  The Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) is sponsored by the Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Educational Technology, and is located in the College of Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Technology 'Nformation for Teachers (T'NT) is a database of technology-related lesson plans developed by Florida educators. T'NT allows you to quickly search the database and easily find lessons to enhance your curriculum. The lesson plans integrate all types of technology tools, including educational software, videodiscs, telecommunications, and computer utilities, for students from early childhood to adult and in all subject areas. The lesson plans in this gopher site can be searched by grade levels and subjects.

 

Project Cape Town : A Multimedia Teaching Case (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/capetown/intro.html)    Project Cape Town is a multimedia teaching case to take advantage of the World Wide Web as a medium to make cases available to teacher education centers worldwide. Different data types, including text, still images, sound, and full motion video, have been used to describe four actual teaching scenarios in schools in Cape Town, South Africa. Three schools undergoing a transition from apartheid to racially integrated student populations provide the material for the case. Teachers in this new integrated system in Cape Town are facing children whose cultures are different from their own. Understanding issues these teachers have been challenged may help teachers in the U.S.  to view multicultural issues in a new light.

 

Frog Incision  (http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/frog/menu.html)  This web site provides still and motion visuals of preserved frogs, in addition to text. The purpose of this lab activity is to help the users learn the anatomy of a frog and give them a better understanding of the anatomy of vertebrate animals in general, including humans.

 

A Teacher's Guide to Holocaust  http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/)  This web site offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, paintings, literature, survivors, testimonies, and videos. Users may follow the lins and branch out to four differnt subcategories: Timeline, People, Society, and the Arts.  The Timeline section focuses on the history of the Holocaust, hronicling the years from 1918 to 1946. The People section focuses on people with the purpose to investigate the human drama of the Holocaust. The participants are grouped according to perspective, either forced or chosen. The Society section focuses on a people forced to flee their homeland once again in a long history of Jewish displacement. The Arts section provides opportunities for students and teachers to explore additional dimensions in Holocaust study. An artist's interpretation of past events can help in the understanding of contemporary experience.  The Student Activities page of this web site provides several Holocaust related lesson plans. It also offers learners an option to Submit an Activity, a place for teachers to submit successful Holocaust activities of their own for inclusion into A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. The Teacher Resources provides links to articles, books, museums, software, websites, and gallery with the purpose to enrich students' learning experience.

 

The Internet Public Library Youth Division  (http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/youth/)  This web site is much like the youth room in the public library in town. Look around and you can find books to read, stuff for school projects, and interesting facts. There are also some special things you can do like tour a museum, ask your favorite author some questions, listen to a story, or see what books other kids recommend.

 

Puzzle Now!  (http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/Activity-structures/Collaborative-Problem-Solving/index.html#parallel-problem-solving)  In this parallel problem solving activity, middle school students on the statewide educational telecommunications network in Virginia (VaPEN) participated in an interdisciplinary project called "Puzzle Now!" Using this activity structure, a similar problem is presented to students in several locations. They solve the problem separately at each site, then share their problem-solving methods electronically. Students from 25 sites within the state solved a common puzzle each week for 8 weeks, comparing not only solutions, but, more importantly, multiple methods for working the problem.

 

The USGS Learning Web  (http://www.usgs.gov/education/)    Like NASA, U.S. Geological Survey also has its web site designed to help school teachers teach the world of Earth Science. The activites here seek to increase science literacy and promote interest in the Earth Sciences because the country needs to insure future leaders understand the Earth and the cycles of change that make life possible on our planet.  Adventures in The Learning Web Science has been fueled by intrigue, investigation, and exploration. The web site's topics are:  Volcanoes in The Learning Web: Explore why and where volcanoes erupt. Teaching in The Learning Web: Explore this collection of educational resources that can be used in the classroom to teach earth science concepts. Living in The Learning Web: Investigate topics about the Earth that affect people every day and every where. The activities highlighted within Teaching in The Learning Web have been developed to meet national Earth Science curriculum standards and have been tested and reviewed by teachers and students alike.

 

A Pigeon Inquiry  (http://www.miamisci.org/pigeons/)  This collaborative project involves gathering information via the Internet. Teachers at Avocado Elementary in Florida spent a day studying pigeons with staff from the Miami Museum of Science. The web pages chronicle the inquiry-based processes they went through to learn about pigeons. The created database can be accessed by K-12 schools via the Internet.  The web page also invite teachers with new pigeon data to try out the on-line form created by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry