101 Internet Activities Middle School

Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers.

This case study book serves as a valuable tool for professors and instructors of educational psychology. It contains 17 cases that represent current areas of interest in Educational Psychology embedded within current challenges that teachers face in today’s middle and high school classrooms. The cases are organized into six major parts: Human Development, Individual Differences and Diversity, Learning Theories, Motivation, Classroom Management, Instructional Approaches, and Assessment and Evaluation.Each case describes a detailed teaching scenario written from either the student or the teachers’ perspective. To engage students in critical thinking, perspective-taking, analysis, problem solving and decision-making, the cases have been intentionally written without a conclusion. Because the cases are open-ended, it allows the professor or instructor more flexibility and autonomy in how they use the cases. Each case is followed by thought-provoking questions, highlighting the significant issues in the case, from which to analyze the case and apply various theoretical viewpoints. While the cases do not replace actual classroom experience, they present a way to immerse students in the classroom’s culture by providing them with real-life teaching examples.

This workbook has 101 different internet research projects for middle school students. Students search for interesting facts about China, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Russia. Students locate postage stamps from foreign countries and illustrate them. Students investigate athletes, writers, civil rights leaders, scientists and politicians. Students identify the countries on the continents: Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. Students find and describe coins from foreign countries. Students discover national parks and monuments. Students locate cities, mountains and bodies of water on maps of U.S. states. Students explore time travel, The Holocaust, slavery, cooking, sea stars, the rattlesnake, the pyramids, the biggest bus, the fastest fish, Russian words, The Appalachian Mountains, The Pony Express, pigeons, ASL sign language, wars, dinosaurs, denim, panning for gold, castles, and more.If you are looking for 101 printable pages to engage your students in Critical Thinking through Internet Research, then this workbook is what you want.

"An exploration of moving away from traditional letter or number grades as an assessment and as a result producing more thoughtful students whose learning is more authentic"--