Pro Teachers! Science and Technology

On the integration corner I found a website called Pro Teacher Science and Technology. This website is pretty cool because it helps teachers with lesson plans and even themes and bulletin boards for classrooms. If you were deciding to teach a science and technology class this would be an awesome website for you. It gives options on topics like earth science, physical science, and life science, each one has lesson plans. For an example, if you select earth science it gives you another list of options and pick dinosaur it will bring up more resources, you choose one of them and they give different activities you could do for that certain subject. It’s a really interesting way to get ideas for your class and to find new ways to get the students doing hands on activities. Then they have a theme and bulletin board link, which gives you ideas on how to decorate your room to have a science theme or even different themes. I think this website would be very helpful for a beginning teacher or even an experience teacher to get ideas or share ideas with others. It could even be a sample lesson plan to get you started so you can add on to it as you go or even take things out.

Fact Monster: Integration Corner

In the integration corner I found a website called Fact Monster. This website is actually really cool. It has different topics that vary from world and news to math and money. You can pick different levels of information appropriate for their grade level. If I was a teacher I would definitely use this and integrate it into my curriculum. It also includes games and quizzes that help the students see what they actually learned and practice. It has a homework center for the teacher to get homework on what they worked on. It has each subject, which is very helpful where students could do work at home if they were having trouble in a certain subject. I think that this website is a very informed and would be very helpful in teaching students certain subjects. It’s a cool little website that your students would enjoy and have fun learning. It has science and technology too, which includes biology, chemistry, earth science, physics and the list goes on. It has different options for each category, so it can cover all topics. You can also pick if you are a girl or boy, and then asked your grade level so it can fulfill your needs to learn.

Technology used in Kindergarten

In the integration corner of chapter two I found a website about teaching kindergarten students about and how to use the computer. The website talks about a teacher in Kansas, what she uses to teach her students about the computer. She starts out by teaching them to click and drag objects on the computer with the mouse. Then she moves on to teaching them on a program called Kid Pix Studio Deluxe. This program let Kindergarteners draw shapes and figures with the mouse and learning how to use the technology and to learn to make shapes at the same time. She explains many other different ways she integrated the technology into the class. They learn how to quit and start up the programs that are using in the classroom and for future programs they use. They learn to write their names with the pencils on that same program, which is helping them with technology and how to spell at the same time. The program will also teach them their colors by using the paint and coloring in sections of shapes they draw. But I think this program is useful because its helping the teacher teach the students shapes, colors, spelling, and how to use the technology all in one.