Internet Scavenger Hunts For The Topics You Teach

This classroom-tested book uses the Internet as a valuable resource to enrich the topics you already teach. Your students will gather up-to-the-minute information and explore relevant questions to complete 10 fun, reproducible scavenger hunts. The topics include Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Body, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Nine Planets, the Rainforest, Volcanoes, Whales, and the White House. Great for boosting research skills and making the most of time spent on the Internet! For use with Grades 4-8.

Contains twenty reproducible worksheets designed to help students in grades four through eight conduct Internet searches on events in American history, each with reading-comprehension questions and graphic organizers.

Contains twenty-five reproducible worksheets designed to help students in grades four through eight conduct Internet searches on famous Americans, each with reading-comprehension questions and graphic organizers.

These simple-to-play science games are sure fire sparks for learning. Studying food chains? Play predator/prey card game. To explore magnetism, students can make their way through a magnet maze. These and other reproducible dice, board, and spinner games teach and reinforce key primary science concepts. Includes background information, complete how-to's, and resources. Content geared to the National Science Standards. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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."

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.

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.

Contains step-by-step instructions for a variety of projects designed to help teachers and students use the Internet.