Integrating Science and Technology in the classroom

Integrating technology into education while including science can be exciting for students and for teachers as well. The website sciencespot.net provides teachers with an enormous amount of information to teach students. It provides topics such as: Ecology, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, etc. In each sectioned topic provided for these teachers there are many different lesson plans to choose from. It also has many options for students to do activities such as Science Club where students can perform projects with cool and interesting names. For example: Egg drop, junk box wars, science Olympiad, Bubble gum blowout, etc. The website also has options for parents as well. You can quiz your child in the Daily Science Trivia with trivia topics such as: Scientists and Inventions, Insects, Dinosaurs, Weather, Bats, Health Chemistry, Earth Science, Etc. Another way that teachers can test their students is by using the websites Science Starter. Teachers use smart boards to teach these science starters. The science starter provides teachers with more websites in order for the students to look at other science projects so they can either replicate them or get ideas on making up their own. The starters typically take 5 minutes or less to complete and provide students with a focused activity to start class. Also by using the starters to review material that was covered in class it helps to gauge what the students have remembered from previous lessons. It helps to let teachers know that additional lessons are needed. Other links that this website provides is The Nature Center where students can do outdoor lessons on how to plant and grow items. The Reference Desk is a tool that is used for teachers to look up science information. The Idea Factory is used to help students make up projects from lists of ideas derived to correlate with science. This is a great website for teachers and students to integrate science and technology into the classroom.http://www.sciencespot.net/

Integrating Writing and Technology

Integrating technology into the classroom is easier said than done. When it comes to integrating technology and writing it makes it pretty simple. With the website that I chose to post it makes writing and integrating technology into the classroom be timely and will go smoothly. It shows students how to take a shorter approach to writing that looks more professional and important. It also shows them how to use web references and how to quote correctly. It also helps the student with grammar mistakes and show them how to correct them. It provides question such as "How to correctly display and capitalize headlines". There are grammar projects called grammar got you that helps the student learn in a fun and constructive way. It also provides lessons on how to use email it takes them on techno lingo for the internet age and tackles the toughest of issues. It gives quick and easy tips for non writers. Helping the students that are not typically writers present their writing in a professional manner. Also it has a section that helps students with confusing word couples, for example when to use whom or who, anxious or eager, and their and there. It is a great site and is very helpful for students, teachers, and parents. It provides them with a central location for using web references when using the internet to write correctly.http://www.webreference.com/internet/writing/