This document discusses using the internet in elementary school classrooms. It provides guidelines for planning student internet experiences, such as selecting appropriate websites and setting clear learning objectives. It also offers strategies for using a single classroom computer, such as having students work individually or cooperatively on projects. Examples of instructional uses of the internet include communicating with other classes, taking virtual field trips, and researching information. The document concludes by mentioning student start pages and teacher resource websites.

1. Using the Internet in the
Elementary Schools
Presented by:
Raiza Roz D. Herrera-Cipriano
III-A BSITE

2.  Instructional uses of the Internet for
Elementary Age Students
 Guidlines for Planning Students Internet
Experiences
 Strategies and Applications for the One
Computer Classroom
 Interactive Projects and Classroom
Applications
 Students start pages
 Teacher resources

3. Instructional Uses of the Internet for
Elementary Age Students
• Communicate With Another Class Through
Email
• Communicate With an Expert or a Significant
Person
• Gather Data for Use in a Class Project
• Take an Internet Excursion for a Science, Social
Studies or Language Arts Unit
• Follow an Online Expedition or Trip

4. Instructional Uses of the Internet for
Elementary Age Students
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Read Works Written by Other Children
Read for Information about Current Events
Read Fiction Written for Children
Take a Virtual Field Trip with Your Class
Guide Students in Researching Information
from the Internet
• Join an Existing Online Project
• Create Your Own Online Project
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5. Guidlines for Planning Students
Internet Experiences
• Become comfortable with the internet
• Select appropriate web sites.
• Set a clear objective / outcome for what you
expect the students to learn from this experience.
-(What is the student learning?)
• Reflect on how the use of the technology/
Internet will enhance the achievement of the
outcome.
-(What does the technology offer that makes
it a good tool for this objective?)
• Preview all web sites carefully.

6. Guidlines for Planning Students
Internet Experiences
• Decide if this experience would be most effective
as a large group presentation, accessed directly
by students, or as a combination of both.
• Make a bookmark list of the site or sites you will
be using in the lesson and save them as a
bookmark file in the global shared folder.
• Prepare a graphic organizer, rubric, or set of
directions for students.
• Prepare students for what they will be learning
and what will be expected of them.
• Plan for how you will assess mastery of the
objective.
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7. Strategies and Applications for the
One Computer Classroom
• Use the Computer as Teacher Tool
• Use the Computer as Multi-Media Chalk Board or
Flip Chart
• Have Students use the Computer as a Tool for
Individual Input as Part of a Larger Group or Class
Project
• Use the Computer as Learning Center or Station
• Use the Computer as Cooperative Learning Tool
• Have Students Use the Computer to do Individual
Work for Practice or Assessment
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8. Interactive Projects and Classroom
Applications
• Join an Existing Online Project
• Create Your Own Online Project
• Communicate with other Teachers
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9. Students start pages
• One of the simplest ways to guide students
• Annotated with specific directions or
objectives for use.
• Constructed through special software
designed for web page construction
• Students access these start pages under adult
supervision with the understanding of the
school's acceptable use policy in which they
have agreed to appropriate standards for
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Internet use.

10. Teacher Resources
A number of sites that have collected
educational resources have begun to add a
search engine feature that allows you to
search the collected sites according to a
specific topic. These sites are extremely useful
and time-saving for teachers.

11. Teacher Resources
Examples of educational search engines.
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Educational Search Engines
Educational Web Site Collections
Internet Lesson Plans
Reference Sites for Elementary Students

12. Thank you for
listening!