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Cyber Safety Thought Information Literacy Teaching cyber safety in school is a tremendous challenge. Try as we may, lecturing to students who know more about technology than the teacher is not going to make our children cyber safe. On top of that, adding additional curriculum to an already overburdened teacher's job is problematic at best.

A wonderful resource for NET education.

A blogspot for students, parents and early childhood educators. It offers links to websites along with ideas for activities for kindergarten.

RSS Feed - A Kindergarten Blog. On this blog some new content that I found was this voice recorder that you can use to put stories or other things on blogs or internet, It is called Vocaroo. She used it as a story of a leprechaun coming into the classroom. I thought this was cute!

These lesson plans, Internet sites, and curriculum ideas will help your students understand the impact of this year's election.

Students will Learn why numbers are an important part of everyday life. Provide examples of daily uses of numbers. Problem-Solving: Math, Episode 1 video Writing paper Pencils and erasers Computer with Internet access (optional) Talk about the different ways we use numbers in our everyday lives. What are some uses of numbers?

March Madness Scavenger Hund

Great ideas - especially for a substitute

This lesson combines a hands-on activity (making a model of a Viking ship), internet skills (web searches), and cooperative learning/discussions to study the ancient Vikings. The boat building activity will also draw students in with the good-natured competition of sailing their models and rating how they did. Journal entries and guided discussions and research add to the involvement of the students with the subject.

I often find myself in conversations with teachers and students about Internet search strategies. Often times the conversation reminds me that what's obvious to me is amazing to someone else. Last week I had that very experience as I taught a couple of teachers some search techniques that they are going to pass along to their students.