Logo & Negative
Numbers
by Candace A. Strawn
Logo explorations can help students apply mathematical
concepts to the
real world in a way that textbook assignments cannot. Learn
more about
Logo at the Logo Foundation.
From Presentation to
Programming—Doing
Something Different, Not the Same Thing Differently
by Cathleen Galas
Students can easily create multimedia presentations in today's
world. But
do they learn what you want them to learn? Cathleen's students used
MicroWorlds
to create a highly realistic simulated ocean environment to study
dolphin
behavior in a project-based learning environment.
Doing Real Science on the
Web—Bringing
Authentic Science Investigations to Your
Classroom
by Timothy F. Slater and Brian Beaudrie
Have you spent hours on the Web looking for real science data?
The teachers
at the Network Montana Project did just that, and then created
a Web
site full of links to science sites and suggestions for their
use in
the classroom. Visit their site and start doing science with
your students.
The Internet
Pyramid
by Ann Johnston
Most activity-based articles describe wonderful ways to use
the Internet
to foster students' higher-order thinking skills. But they
can't do
this until they know how to use the Internet. Ann describes a
framework
for teaching Internet use to elementary students in a
one-computer classroom.
Visit the sites she describes.
Mining the Internet
Online
by Glen Bull, Gina Bull, & Judi
Harris
Mining the Internet is an ongoing column in L&L.
Frequently
the Internet changes substantially in the six months between
the time
that a column is submitted and the time it appears in print.
The Mining
the Internet Web site will provide a location for updates to
each issue's
column. It will also provide a way to offer active links to
Internet
locations mentioned in the column and a place for material
that would
not fit in the confines of a four-page column. The column will
therefore
become a hybrid mix of print materials that will appear in
each issue
of L&L and supplementary materials that will be
placed on
the Web each month.
