Social ActionSocial Action projects are a great way to teach students quality values like: stewardship, leadership, and citizenship. With today's ramped utilization of the internet, constructing these types of projects is made much simplier. By using the internet students can easily find a cause that they are interested in and contact the organization to find out ways they can help. Listed below are links to Social Action projects that other classrooms have complete, which could help in interoducing this topic to your students: Having students complete social research projects is a great way for them to become more connected with their community. | Virtual Field TripsVirtual or electronic field trips are a great way for students to experience things outside of the classroom, without the hassel of actually leaving the classroom. While going on field trips can have many drawl backs, transportation, cost, loss of school time during travel, additional chaperons, etc. However, these complications are eliminated by the opportunity provided by the interent for students to participate in virtual field trips. There are virtual field trips for almost every content area, this includes zoos, museums, aquariums, art galleries, there are even virtual tours for other parts of the world! These resources are a great way to expose students not only to classic pieces of art, but to different cultures and countries as well. Below are several links for virtual field trips that could be used in the classroom: There is also an app avilable from Google which provides virtual tours of various locations: |
Individual and Cooperative Research
Often one of the hardest things that older elementary students learn to do is complete research projects. There are so many extra reqirements for research project than for other writing projects. This includes teaching students how to serach for their specific topic. In older days this was fairly easy becuase really all they needed to do was find the right letter Thesarus, and check out books from the library. However, now with the endless research possibilites provided by the Internet, the reseach process has become more complicated.
Here is an article that gives a discription and overview of the 'Elementary' reasearch process:
Research at the Elementary Level
This would be a great resource for teachers who are teaching their student how to contduct research via the Internet.
A second problem that teacher run into with online research is filtering the search results. However, there are now several search engines that are designed specifically for kids, and provide a safe kid-friendly results.
Using kid-friendly search engines like the ones listed above makes complete reasearch projects much eaiser for the student and for the teacher.
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