TechKnowledgy Idea

Use the Web for Real World Connections

The World Wide Web is an unbelievable, free resource that can add a real world connection to the content you are teaching.  Using the web as part of your lesson plans doesn't have to be complicated.  If you have an AverKey in your classroom or access to a projector, you can use a website to enhance the content you are teaching.

So where do you find these fabulous websites??  That's where I come in!  My website has many great links, but you can send me an email with what you are looking for, and I will send you some possibilities.  I've included several websites at the right that should be relevant now if you are following the curriculum map.  I have several more related to the content of astronomy, economics and statistics and probability on my site.

Just email me and let me know what you need!

Web Resources

• Do-It-Yourself Maps - create color coded maps of the United States or of individual states with counties using this simple web form

• Arty the Part-Time Astronaut - a great interactive site for kids with information on changing seasons, constellations, planets, and more

• Astronomy: Our Place in Space - Learn about gravity, the sun, and much more in this "Ology" site from the National Museum of Natural History

• Escape from KNAB - a simulation game that makes kids plan a budget in order to return to Earth - intermediate/middle level

• EconEdLink - fabulous resource for economics lesson plans, online activities, and more

• Statistics and Probability - this site has several interactive applets to show statistics and probability concepts

Tech Tips

Changing Case in Word

No matter how many times you tell them, you will always have a student that types their entire portfolio piece in all caps. Never fear. You do not have to retype the whole thing. If you are using Microsoft Word, you can select Change Case, and it will fix it for you. (I do recommend editing to be certain is gets everything.) Just follow these steps.

Highlight the text that needs to be changed.

• Click on Format (on the Menu Bar.)
• Click on Change Case.
• Decide what the problem is. If they typed with caps lock on, then choose tOGGLE cASE. (In other words, they otherwise capitalized correctly, but didn't know caps lock was on.) If they typed everything in caps, then choose Sentence case. You may have to play around a little to get what you want.
• Click OK.

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Other Dates

• KTLC - March 3-5

• Staff/Immex - March 11

• FCPS Tech Fair - March 19