Content Area Tools
Technology Integration
Looking for web resources, lesson plans, interactives, or other online activities to support curriculum? Avoid a long searches by using Content Area Tools.
Pre-Assess your skills for this "Thing"
Thinkfinity
Thinkfinity.org is a Web site filled with free lesson plans, interactive and instructional materials, and professional development opportunities for educators and the literacy community.
The content is created and approved by leading education and
literacy organizations. There are:
--Thousands of K-12 lesson plans and student materials
--Calendars of historic events with associated instructional materials
--Strategies for integrating Web-based resources into classroom learning
--Links to discipline-specific websites that focus on science, humanities, geography, history, math, art, economics, reading/language and adult and family literacy
--Resources to help develop and expand skills in literacy instruction
Check out the recorded webinars about Thinkfinity. There are strategies for using Thinkfinity's free online tools, strategies for sharing Verizon Thinkfinity and what's new with Thinkfinity. Also check out the Partner Site features. This is a collection of one-page documents highlighting the important elements of each verizon Thinkfinity Content Partner Web Site.
M.O.R.E.
Did you know that Michigan has its own site for lesson plans, resources and much more? This great wealth of information can be found on M.O.R.E. (Michigan Online Resources for Educators). Educators can search by standard/s and subjects and pull up quality lessons and materials from sites such as Thinkfinity and other authoritative sites. It is a quick way to pull up lessons in Thinkfinity on a particular Michigan curriculum standard.
M.O.R.E. also has a Resource Locker where you can save lessons and links you find as you do searches on the site, a lesson plan builder where you can submit your lessons and a social networking community where educators can connect and collaborate with each other.
Aligned to the NETS-T: 2.a, 2.b, 2.c, 3.a, 4.a, 4.b, 4.c
Connections to Marzano Strategies: Generating and Testing Hypothesis;
Questions, Cues, Advanced Organizers
21things Hands-On Activity and Assignment:
1. Before beginning this "Thing", complete the Pre-Assessment of your technology proficiency.
2. Visit Thinkfinity and M.O.R.E.
3. Choose at least two activities from Thinkfinity or M.O.R.E. or from the Additional Resources below.
4. For the portfolio assignment, write a short synopsis of the activity and how you are going to use it within your lesson and be sure to include the hyperlink to the two activities from that web that you are using.
5. After completing all of the activities for this "Thing", take the Post-Assessment of your technology proficiency for this "Thing".
Post-Assess your skills for this "Thing"
1. Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. There are thousands of media resources, support materials and tools for classroom lessons, individualized leearning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.
2. TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly and ad-free format.
3. DocsTeach pulls 1000s of primary source documents from the National Archives. Educators may draw from these documents to create online activities for classroom usage.
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