Miscellaneous Technology
These build self-esteem for all students.
What are the Roles in the Classroom?
Virtual Simulations and Virtual Field Trips.
What are the types of Virtual Experiences?
Digital Microscopes, Online Digital Microscopy Photos, Document Cameras, and Online MircoScopes.
What are the types of Magnification tools?
Intelligence, Movement, Self-Propelled, and Sense Their Environment.
What are Robots?
How Stuff Works, GCFLearnFree, and Computer Hope.
What are the resources for Hand-On Inquiry?
Let's Take a Dip, Moon in Google Earth, The Secret Annex Online, and The Tenement Museum.
What are Virtual Field Trips?
This site allows teachers and students to use the photos for educational purposes.
What is Microangela?
Support, Draw, Design, Simulate, Compose, Deconstruct, Document, Prepare, Manage equipment, Troubleshoot, Participate, Assess, Direct, Build, and Direct.
What are 15 fabulous roles for Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners?
Students can learn about computers while they are unplugged from computers!
What is Computer Science Unplugged?
CSI: Web Adventures, Gen i Revolution, Phet, iCivics, and Online Science Games for Kids.
What are Online Simulation Sites?
The University of Delaware created this tool.
What is the Online Virtual Microscope?
Have students work in pairs or small groups.
What is Lesson 2?
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Citizen Science, SciStarter, The Smithsonian citizen science project, NASA, and Zooniverse.
What teacher resources for Citizen Science?
A virtual owl pellet dissection website.
What is KidWings?
This tool can show 3D objects, zoom in, and capture still photos.
What is a Document Camera?
Robots do not go home with anyone.
What is Lesson 3?
Touchscreen Monitors and Interactive Whiteboards
What are Touchscreen Devices?
Websites supported by an organization, have visual and audio with text, the student controls the exploration.
What are the criteria for virtual field trips?
Magnification, Compatibility with Computers, Take Photos, Lights from Above and Below, Handheld Device, Includes Supplies for Slides, and Sit on a Stand.
What are the features of a Digital Microscope?
Use kits for in-school robotic experiences.
What is Lesson 1?