EDUC201

Your school is participating in a special program called "Symbols of America" whose goal is to help elementary students that are new to the United States learn about places in our country where there are pieces of history symbolic of our nation.

http://www.desktoprating.com/wallpapers/movies-wallpapers-pictures/dinosaur-wallpaper-thumb.jpg Dinosaur Web Quest Introduction Students will begin a dinosaur hunt. This very easy web quest will introduce students to the concept of using various links to find information. They will also develop skills for opening and closing various windows in Internet Explorer. Using the various links, they will discover facts about dinosaurs.

Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy that simultaneously addresses academic and social skill learning by students. It is a well-researched instructional strategy and has been reported to be highly successful in the classroom. For a more in depth explanation of this strategy, follow this link to the self-guided tutorial.

Lessons that teach students how to use the computer and the internet. Lessons include such topics as cyber bullying, research and information fluency and online safety. There are also many more lessons to choose from.

I think Weekly Reader is one of the best curriculum suppliment resources. I used it every year I was home schooling my daughter. One of the things I love about it is that it is always current. For example, one of our 2008 issues for children grades 4-6, discussed our process of voting for president and gave the children the opportunity to vote for president. It's not just for elementary levels either; it goes all the way to 12th grade.

A curriculum map for high school history home schooled.

A number of ideas for high school social studies curriculum.

Shared US History curriculum's from Kentucky High Schools.

A number of ideas for lesson plans on social studies topics.

A sample of high school social studies plan of study.

lesson plans that have indiana state standards

this has some resources that give focus for standards for educators

A website full of lesson plans and ideas for later elementary students. Another portion of the site leads to other grade levels for different information. Useful for different experiments and sorted by science subject, ex. chemistry, physics, biology.

This gives learning objectives for math and language arts for the first grade. This site also gives lesson plan ideas as well.

A website containing various science experiments for students grade k-6. Most are interactive and offer hands-on activities for the students. 

A website of links for elementary science teachers. I chose to include the site because it has far more websites than I could individually go through and bookmark but the sites could still prove useful for other teachers.

A useful website with information for all grades and science activities. Useful for both the classroom and individual science projects.

A website containing links to different science websites for students. Allows the students a chance to experiment in ways online that would be impossible in the classroom.

An excellent site for teaching science to any elementary grade. A free site but requires signup to utilize all the features. 

The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.