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| Theme: e-educators and e-earthday | Kathy D. Adkins |
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Do you incorporate the internet in your classroom instruction on a daily basis? Have you moved from being a "newbie" to what some refer to as "knows enough to be daring in the classroom?" This generation of elementary students are growing up with dot.com this and dot.com that. They do not know life without the Internet. As an educator, it is difficult to find time to look for that "perfect site" dot.com site to incorporate into your lesson. One suggestion is try committing to some online exploration once a week for thirty minutes or maybe twice a week for twenty minutes each time. You have to familiarize yourself with the territory. Another suggestion is team up with your media specialist and technology specialist to design a lesson around a specific topic or theme. Pam McClure, a VCE teacher, did just that. It was fun to work with Pam and help her design several activities on Kites. Pam utilized a Kite Scavenger Hunt as well as several kite links from last month's newsletter to teach her students navigation on the Internet as well as how to use tools in Kid Pix to apply what they learned. Here is an example of the end product! Way to go Mrs. McClure and second graders!
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This issue is dedicated to all the teachers at Midway and Vickery Creek that have been working very hard to incorporate technology into their curriculum! Over twenty teachers at Vickery displayed and shared some of their lessons and projects with parents at Vickery's first PTA Technology Night. Teachers at both schools have also been creating their first class web pages. Thanks to all these e-educators for their hard work!
At Midway Elementary, Emily Bagwell, a Spanish
teacher, Linda Agnello, the music teacher and Dawn Tharpe, the PE teacher just created
their first web pages! Please check out their sites!
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America Quest will still be online until September 2000! Carrie Weaver's Class created an America Quest ABC Book with Kid Pix by learning how to copy images from the Internet and pasting into KidPix. They also learned how to utilize the eyedropper tool to match colors and create larger stamped letters. Way to go second graders! |
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| Here are two more online quests you may use the next two months! Check e-mail for the passwords! | |
BoliviaTrek 2000 adventurers will plunge into the depths of the world's highest navigable lake and scale the icy altitudes of the Andes Mountains. |
 April 17 - May 19 St. Catherine's Island takes you behind the scenes of the American Museum of Natural History to investigate the lost history of a Spanish mission off the coast of Georgia. |
| Holly Ingram, a Vickery Creek fourth grade teacher has been teaching her students about the life cycle of the frog. They displayed their knowledge by creating collaborative Kid Pix slideshows. Working in groups of five the students worked on storyboards to design their presentations and then went to the lab to create their projects. Way to go fourth graders! |
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For technology night, Brenda Roy's students shared their excel graphs displaying data from The Great Chocolate Experience. These graphs were displayed for parents in a looping PowerPoint Slideshow. What a neat way for parents to see all the students' graphing techniques! |
| What are the three R's of Earth Day Earth Day Games | |
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Click the tree to see clip art from
kidsdomain.com that you can use to make templates for your students!
Use the Commemorative Stamp in KidPix to make and Earth Day or Arbor Day Stamp! Look in the L: drive under kptemps to find the stamp template. |
The National Arbor Day Foundation |
Millennium Green is a special national project that is all about keeping our Earth green and healthy. It is also a project that asks us all to protect and care for the natural wonders and treasures of the Earth. We need everyone's help and the time to begin is now! |
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The Millenium Green is a partner project with this site. Lots of resources for establishing a wildlife habitat or school garden. |
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Amy Surasky's Site
April
10 - May 4
