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1. Access an online weather forecast Begin each school day in the elementary
grade with a visit of a site in the Weather
Channel with a discussion of the date and
the day’s local weather.
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2. Include URLs in your monthly calendar Each month, Education World Provides a
printable and editable calendar for
classroom use. Before distributing copies
of the calendar to your students, add the
URLs of a few sites that will add to their
understanding of the month’s events –
and encourage them to visit those sites.
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3. Access online weather forecasts in the
foreign language like Japanese, Spanish,
French, etc.
Begin foreign language classes with a
discussion of the day’s weather. The
Weather Channel provides weather
information the native language of each
country.
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4. Challenge students with online
mathematics problem
Add a daily or weekly mathematics
challenge to the seatwork assignments,
math lessons, or extra credit activities.
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5. Provide a URL in place of a quote Write a quote on the chalkboard each
day so that students can reflect on and
discuss it.
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6. Introduce a word of the day Increase the student’s vocabulary by
including an online word of the day in
opening activities, seatwork assignments,
or language arts activities
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7. Keep them spelling Spelling is one of the reading skills to be
developed in elementary school. Basic
education students can add spelling to
language arts lessons or extra credit
assignments.
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8. Make history real For many kids history is only a subject in
a book – one that’s unrelated to real
people, real events, or today’s news.
a. Personalize history lesson by
beginning each history lesson with a
quick visit to Today in History or This
Day in History.
b. Take note of the day’s historical event
in locale/country.
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9. Utilize online work sheets Make the student’s life easier by
including a few online worksheets. Each
week, Education World provides an
original printable.
a. Scavenger Hunt and a Writing Bug
creative writing activity.
b. Technology offers lots of work sheets
in a variety of curriculum areas.
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10. Beef up your history lessons Primary source materials add interest to
any history lessons. Through the help of
the internet, people related to
heroes/heroines open to a discussion on
the greatness of their relative.
11. Provide online reading
comprehension practice
a. Give fun reading comprehension
activity for students in the language
arts area.
b. Design a speaking activity for
students of English as a Second
Language in elementary and high
school.
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12. Incorporate online news into
discussion of current events
Do not limit students’ current events
contributions to print newspapers.
Encourage them to search online media
as well. CNN and MSNBC are excellent
places to start looking for national and
international news or, check out local
online newspapers for local and national
news.
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13. Make the news a learning tool Encourage students to better understand
current events and connect to today’s
news by encouraging them to further
explore the issues of the day.
The Why Files website uses news and
current events as the basis for science,
health, and technology lessons.
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14. Spice up your grammar lessons Explore Daily Grammar’s Lesson Achieve
to find new grammar lesson everyday.
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15. Make a science a daily event Discuss the NASA Astronomy Picture of
the Day or Goddard Space Centers Enter
Science Picture of the Day, both of which
include a brief explanation of the days
photo.
Briefly discuss a scientist or a scientific
event from Today in Science History.
Create a website of Filipino scientists,
naming their contributions to the
country.