Learning in the 21st Century 06.04.03

Barbara Barr, Technology Resource Teacher Fayette County Public Schools Instructional Technology 701 East Main Street, Lexington, KY 40502 Cell Phone/Pager: 859.983.3602 FAX: 859.381.4763 E-mail: bbarr@fayette.k12.ky.us Website: http://teach.fcps.net/trt4/ Archived newsletters are available at http://teach.fcps.net/trt4/enews.htm Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Did You Know? Did you know you can go to http://www.meijer.com/bts and post your school supply list for next year? They will compile the list and post the list in-store for those students who do not have access to a computer. Each teacher who does this will be entered into a drawing for a $100 Meijer gift card. 10 teachers will be picked. Click here to send an email to Barbara Barr Summer Learning Jean Williams (Special Ed. & Co-STC at Yates) has a special needs student who needs summer reinforcement with the alphabet. She is making a video tape for the student to watch during vacation. On the tape, school staff members will hold a letter of the alphabet and say sentences repeating the letter name. What a great way to support student learning with technology! Thanks for the Memories I can't believe it's almost over! This year has flown so fast. I can't begin to tell you how much I have enjoyed working with you this year. Getting to work with super people like you is one of the reasons why being a TRT is the best job I've ever had! As many of you know, the Instructional Technology Department is expanding, and we are adding a number of new TRTs. This means that you will have more time and attention from your TRT, because we will have more staff available to the schools. It also means that I will have some changes in the schools that I will help. I do not yet know which schools I will serve next year. Thank you for providing me the opportunity to be apart of your staff. It has been such a pleasure to share these last two years with you! Have a safe and happy summer! Barbara		Standards Based Lesson Plans When you start to get bored this summer (yeah, right!) here are some interesting web sites! *Standards-Based Internet Lesson Plans:* ArtsEdge: http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org /teaching_materials/curricula/artsedge.html (One Link) Teaching materials focus on the national art education standards and provides K-12 teachers with curriculum units, lesson plans, activities and other ideas for integrating the arts into classroom teaching. EconoEdLink: http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm Economics online lessons by Title, Grade, Standard, or Lesson Plan Type. P.S, I use this a lot for units on Economics! EdSiteMent: http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson_index.asp Online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities -- art, culture, literature, language arts, foreign language, social studies and history. NCTM Illuminations: http://illuminations.nctm.org/lessonplans/ Internet-Based Lesson Plans are examples of how the Internet can be used to help create effective Standards-based mathematics lessons. Read Write Think: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp International Reading Association (IRA) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) lessons. Science NetLinks: http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/matrix.cfm Standards-based lesson plans that incorporate reviewed Internet resources, and can be selected according to specific benchmarks and grade ranges. Xpeditions: http://www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/matrix.html (one link) Lesson plans written by educators and tested in the classroom, which address all of the U.S. National Geography Standards http://www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/standards/index.html (one link), the five geography skills, and the main geographic perspectives. A special thanks to TRT Maggie Wilson for sharing these sites!