Forefront Curriculum : Integrating the Net into the Elementary Classroom

Practical Strategies for Using the Net to Enhance K-6 Curriculum Internet Training & Curriculum Development for K-12 Educators Sarah DiRuscio can provide outstanding "hands-on" technology training at your school. Learn more about how she can motivate your teachers to use computers on a daily basis! Print Out these Great Elementary Handouts K-6 Science Handout K-6 Cross Curricular Handout
Great Sites for Starters Exploratorium Museum www.exploratorium.edu PBS Online www.pbs.org Smithsonian Institute www.si.edu Web Museum sunsite.unc.edu/wm/paint/ Internet Task Cards Animal Alphabet www.mrtc.org/~twright/ animals/english/ alphabet.htm Flags of the World fotw.digibel.be/flags/ Map Quest www.mapquest.com/ Math Problem of the Week forum.swarthmore.edu/ elempow/ Neuroscience Coloring Book weber.u.washington.edu/ ~chudler/colorbook.html Wacky Web Tales www.eduplace.com/tales Yuckiest Site on the Net www.nj.com/yucky Free Email Yahoo Mail www.yahoo.com Juno Mail www.juno.com Hot Mail www.hotmail.com	Guided Activities All About Me Scavenger Hunt 206.252.190.23/tips/ allaboutme.html Ask an Expert Activity www.askanexpert.com Buzzy Bee Story (1st-3rd) Kids Storybooks Online www.magickeys.com/books Colonial Williamsburg (buildings) www.history.org/places/places.htm Funny Frog Facts (3rd-6th) www.csu.edu.au/faculty/ commerce/account/frogs/ frog.htm Gastric Brooding Frog (3rd-6th) www.csu.edu.au/faculty/ commerce/account/ frogs/brooding.htm Prime Body Parts (4th-5th) www.lifelong.com/ AcademicWorld/ MonsterMath/NTEng/ White House for Kids www.whitehouse.gov Scavenger Hunt Examples South Knox Elementary Hunts www.sknox.k12.in.us/projects.htm Safe Surfing Poems What's for Lunch Rather Eat a Beet Surfing w Students *Crazy Critter Clues Collaborative Projects Global School Net www.gsn.org NASA's Online Projects quest.arc.nasa.gov/ interactive/index.html Web Quests edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/ webquest.html	Great Research Sites Electric Library www.elibrary.com CA Gold Rush Site www.goldrush1849.com Internet Public Lib. www.ipl.org Research Paper www.researchpaper.com Science Central www.scicentral.com Search Tools Ask Jeeves for Kids www.ajkids.com Dogpile www.dogpile.com Research Paper www.researchpaper.com Yahooligans www.yahooligans.com Web Site Development Filamentality www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/ Classroom Sites & Work Think Quest www.thinnkquest.org Gingerbread Man Projects www.kconnect.com/ kc-integrated.html Learning Disabilities Online www.ldonline.org Ms. Hos 5th & 6th Grade www.best.com/~swanson/ holidays/festivals_menu.html South Knox Elementary www.sknox.k12.in.us/projects.htm Cupertino Junior High School www.cupertino.k12.ca.us/ Cupertino.www/

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Developing Lesson Plans & Finding Online Curriculum Forefront Curriculum-Internet Training & Curriculum Development for K-12 Educators www.4forefront.com/elementary2.html © 1999 Sarah A. DiRuscio, M.A.
Sample Lesson Plans (K-6) Arthur Web Site www.pbs.org/arthur Cockroaches and You (K-4) www.yucky.com Eric Carle Web Site (K-5) www.eric-carle.com/index.html Monster Exchange www.sknox.k12.in.us/ monster4.htm Music of Change (3-12) encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse (click on Special Collections-the 60s) People Helping People (5-8) encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse (Click on Language Arts-then Storytelling) Rock & Roll Hall of Fame www.rockhall.com Shopping for Toys score.kings.k12.ca.us/ lessons/shop4toy.htm Taking a Tooth Count (K-1) encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse (click on Math-it's on page 5) Traveling Across America (4-9) encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse (click on S. Studies then Geography) Very Hungry Caterpillar (K-3) www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/ carle/carlesg1.html Caterpillar Student Work Samples www.sknox.k12.in.us/Giltncat.htm	Top Elementary Sites Apple Head (K-3) apple-corps.westnet.com/ apple_corps.html Apple Learning Interchange ali.apple.com Art Lessons for K-3 www.bconnex.net/ ~jarea/lessons.htm Ask Eric Digest ericir.syr.edu/ Virtual/Lessons/ Beakman & Jax www.youcan.com Blue Web'n (Pacific Bell's ) www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ bluewebn Busy Teachers Website www.ceismc.gatech.edu/ busyt/homepg.htm Childrens Literature Web Guide www.ucalgary.ca/ ~dkbrown/rstory.html Children's Online Storybooks www.magickeys.com/books Classroom Connect Net Lessons www.classroom.com/ resource/lessonplans/ Forefront Curriculum (Sarah's) www.forefrontcurriculum.com Frank Potter's Gems www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP Houghton Mifflin Online www.hmco.com/ Internet Karaoke www.geocities.com/ Broadway/3386 Kindergarten Connection www.kconnect.com	Top Elementary Sites Kindergarden (horticulture) aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ tamuhort.html Learning Disabilities Online www.ldonline.org Lesson Plans Page (300+) www.lessonplanspage.com/ Literature Cyberguides www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/ SCORE/cyk3.html Math Word Problems aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ tamuhort.html McREL www.mcrel.org/ Microsoft's Encarta encarta.msn.com/ schoolhouse/lessons PBS www.pbs.org PE Central pe.central.vt.edu Reading Center (Houghton Mifflin) www.eduplace.com/ rdg/index.html SCORE www.score.k12.ca.us Social Studies Lessons-Great!! www.csun.edu/~hcedu013 Social Studies/Lang Arts Center www.eduplace.com/ search/activity.html Spelling Resources www.col-ed.org/cur/ misc/misc37.txt Teach Net Lesson Plans www.teachnet.org/docs.cfm Teachers Helping Teachers www.pacificnet.net/ ~mandel/index.html Time Magazine for Kids www.pathfinder.com/ TFK/ Yuckiest Site on the Net www.yucky.com Multimedia Favorites Web Camera Collection www.ranier.net/~larry/ web-voyeur