Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom

Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom
Author: Jordan Brown
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2001-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780439280402

From its causes and impacts to its solutions, the issues surrounding climate change involve multidisciplinary science and technology. This handbook addresses all aspects of energy in the context of mitigation of atmospheric carbon and resultant climate change.

Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom - Human Body

Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom - Human Body
Author: Laura Allen
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2001-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439278577

Students develop their Internet research skills as they learn about the body’s systems, the senses, health, genes, and more. Reproducible graphic organizers help students analyze and record information they find on the Web. Then they use what they’ve learned to conduct simple science experiments, create easy projects, and complete fun activities. Students will invent an animal with a unique skeleton, write a play about the digestive system, create optical illusions, and more. For use with Grades 3-6.

Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom

Quick and Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom
Author: Jackie Glasthal
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2001-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439278584

Twenty fun, Web based activities are accompanied by reproducible graphic organizers that enable kids to learn the very latest information on their own. Focusing on the U.S. government, activities include making a mobile showing the power of balance between branches of government, creating a personal "contacts" list of elected officials, and more. Illustrations.

Quick Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: SPACE

Quick Easy Internet Activities for the One-Computer Classroom: SPACE
Author: Mary Kay Carson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439244411

Build students Internet skills as they expand their knowledge of stars, moons, planets, space exploration, and more. This book offers more than 100 space Web sites, plus reproducible graphic organizers that help students record the information they gather. Using this information, students build a star life-cycle mobile, write their own myth about a constellation, create travel brochures of the planets, complete a timeline of historic space events, and more! For use with Grades 3-6."

Weather

Weather
Author: Mary Kay Carson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439278560

Contains twenty reproducible web-based activities designed to help students in grades six through eight learn about the weather.

Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Civilizations
Author: Edie Evans
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439280426

Where can students visit an Egyptian pyramid, learn the Sumerian number system, study the ancient Chinese dynasties, and explore the Mayan city of Chichen Itza? The Internet, of course! Armed with reproducible graphic organizers, students go online and hone their research skills to learn about these and other ancient civilizations. Students then use what they've learned to recreate a Mayan calendar, map out Mesopotamia, create a timeline of ancient Greece, and more.

American Revolution

American Revolution
Author: Katherine Wallis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439304665

Did you know that "Yankee Doodle" was written to poke fun at the Colonial army? Or that several women, such as Deborah Sampson, played important roles in the American Revolution? Students build Internet research skills while learning these and other fascinating facts. Great graphic organizers aid students in recording information to use in designing a diorama of a famous battle, creating a comic strip about the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, and much more. For use with Grades 4-8.

Social Studies Teaching Activities Books

Social Studies Teaching Activities Books
Author: Gary Lare
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810853713

An annotated listing of activities books for use with social studies curriculums, focusing on elementary and middle school grades, arranged by curriculum area, topic, and grade level. Includes contact information for publishers and distributors of appropriate books, and an index.