This document provides strategies for integrating the internet into social studies classrooms. It discusses internet-based learning applications like online tutorials, tools, and information resources. It also offers strategies for internet integration including identifying goals, using multimedia scrapbooks, treasure hunts, and subject samplers. The document advises teachers to start by focusing on curriculum and setting goals, and to guide students to use the internet as a tool for research and publishing rather than just playing online.

1. Integrating the Internet into the Social Studies Classroom Steve Spengler [email_address] Coordinator of Educational Technology Colonial Intermediate Unit 20

2. Topics Internet-based Social Studies learning applications Strategies for Internet integration in the Social Studies Curriculum Putting it all together “ Working the Web for Education” and “What’s on the Web” by Tom March “ The Internet Connection: Exploring the Power of the Web as a Teaching Tool” by Educational Research Corporation

3. Internet-based Learning Applications

4. Learning Applications Enrichments Lessons/online tutorials Tools Reference resources Information resources Projects Activities

5. Enrichments Use media from the Internet as springboards to further discussion Similar to cartoon on the overhead or beginning a lesson with a story Discussion/story starters [PSSA] Writing prompts

7. UnitedStreaming.com http://www. unitedstreaming .com

8. Lessons/Online Tutorials Targets specific learner outcomes Guides a user through instructional steps May have feedback, benchmarks or checkpoints Technologically difficult to create Newer technologies allow for more!

9. Encyclopedia Britannica Online http://www. britannica .com

10. Interpreting Political Cartoons http://www1. moe . edu . sg / edsoftware / ir /soc.html

11. Why do Civilizations Fall? http://www.learner.org/exhibits/collapse/

12. Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government (for kids) http:// bensguide . gpo . gov /

13. The Story of Elizabeth Whitney Williams http://www. michiganepic .org/ KeeperOfTheLightFlash /

14. Tools Require student input used to quickly generate output Search engine is most used tool Online databases Teacher tools Curricular tools

15. Alterna Timelines http://www2. canisius . edu /~ emeryg /time.html

16. History.NET Discussions http:// historynet . zeroforum .com/

17. Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/

18. Maritime History Archive http://www. mun .ca/ mha /

19. Spartacus Educational http://www. spartacus . schoolnet .co. uk /

20. Reference Resources Comprehensive in scope CIA World Factbook Statistical Abstract of the US Ready reference iTools.com Microsoft Encarta HistoryCentral.com Narrow focus Historical Russia

21. CIA World Fact Book http://www. cia . gov / cia /publications/ factbook /

22. iTools.com http://www. itools .com/

23. Microsoft Encarta http:// encarta .msn.com

24. HistoryCentral.com http://www. multied .com/

25. U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census. gov /

26. Historical Russia http://www.departments. bucknell . edu / russian

27. Information Resources Collections of information Castles on the Web 50States.com Virtual fieldtrips Secrets of the Pharaohs Tower of London Tour Colonial Williamsburg

28. Castles on the Web http:// castlesontheweb .com/

29. 50States.com http://www.50states.com/

30. U.S. State Department: Regions http://www.state. gov /www/regions.html

31. Virtual Tour: Secrets of the Pharaohs http://www. pbs .org/ wnet /pharaohs/digging.html

32. Virtual Tour: Tower of London http://www. nationalgeographic .com/ ngkids /0101/tower/tower2.html

33. Virtual Tour: Williamsburg, VA http://www.history.org/visit/ tourTheTown /

34. WWW Virtual Tours http://www. virtualfreesites .com/tours.html

35. Internet Projects Long-term interdisciplinary Research Reading Writing Long-term Web projects GlobalSchool.net KidLink

36. Children of Dreams http://www. gsn .org/programs/dreams/ lessonplan .html

37. KidLink.org http://www. kidlink .org

38. Activities Online activities WebQuests Ideas/topic searches Offline activities Discussions Debates

39. WebQuests Internet inquiry-based activities “Online lesson plans” Provides challenging task, scenario, or problem to solve Provide resources for students Summarizing activity is meant to synthesize prior learning

40. The WebQuest Page http:// webquest . sdsu . edu /

41. TechTrekkers WebQuests http://www. techtrekers .com/ webquests

42. Strategies for Internet Integration

43. Identify the Goal Link to Web sites that you find useful Create a page with the links Students can use your list for guidance Post your list on the Web to bookmark sites

44. BackFlip http://www. backflip .com/

45. Bookmark Tracker http://www. bookmarktracker .com/

46. Multimedia Scrapbook Internet links to media Students can discover artifacts on a topic Students can download the items to be used in presentations

47. Filamentality http://www. filamentality .com/wired/ fil /index.html

48. Exploring China http://www. filamentality .com/wired/China/scrapbook.html

49. Treasure Hunts Find Web sites that hold information Guide students through their “hunt” Pose one key question per page to define scope of topic Include a culminating higher order thinking skills activity

50. Civil War Activities http://www. libsci .sc. edu /miller/ CivilWar . htm

51. African American History Treasure Hunt http://www.kn. pacbell .com/wired/BHM/ bh _hunt_quiz.html

52. Subject Sampler Prepare smaller variety of Web sites organized around a topic Choose intriguing sites Students are asked about their perspectives on topics, comparisons, etc. Integrate into oral history projects

53. American Revolution Sampler http:// oncampus . richmond . edu /academics/education/projects/samplers/revolution.html

54. Putting it Together

55. How do I start? With the end in mind What is the intention? What do I want the end result to be? Focus on technology skills or production? What end results will I facilitate? Kelly, Deidre, “The Year Ahead”, Classroom Connect, September 2000, p. 16.

56. How do I start? Set goals for you and your students Teacher Goals: I want to feel confident when my students use the Internet. I want to learn how to use the Internet to find teacher materials. I want to integrate the Internet into my curriculum. Kelly, Deidre, “The Year Ahead”, Classroom Connect, September 2000, p. 16.

57. How do I start? Set goals for you and your students Student Goals: I want my students to treat the Internet as a tool, not a toy. I want my students to learn how to use the Internet as a publishing tool. I want my students to learn how to use the Internet as a research tool. Kelly, Deidre, “The Year Ahead”, Classroom Connect, September 2000, p. 16.

58. Where do I start? Look at current curriculum with an eye towards where it may be lacking Do learners come out of the unit knowing enough information? Are the students actively engaged? Do they pursue higher-level thinking? Create a Web-based activity for the learning aspect that you would revise anyway (WebQuest, Treasure Hunt…)

59. How do I start? Once you feel comfortable with the tools, you change YOUR way of thinking Become creative and internalize the use of the tools NETS (http://cnets.iste.org) National Educational Technology Standards for teachers and students

60. Teaching and Learning Carefully guided and structured Learners are engaged Students must understand exploration (not playing around) Students are investigating, asking questions, writing, etc. Developing reading, writing, and thinking skills.

61. Steve Spengler Contact Info: Phone: 610-515-6533 Email: sspengler@ciu20.org

62. Integrating the Internet into the Social Studies Classroom Steve Spengler [email_address] Coordinator of Educational Technology Colonial Intermediate Unit 20