Technology Lesson Plans

Daily Web Visits

Each morning we have quick presentations from the Internet.

We review a weather website at (www.wunderground.com), which gives us our local forecast, the times of the sunrise and sunset, the length of the day, and the times the moon rises and sets, along with the moon's phase.

We also learn the wind direction and speed and the maximum and minimum temperatures for the day. We figure out the temperature range, and we make weekly graphs using the some of the data we collect.

We also look at other web sites at (www.historychannel.com/thisday/), (http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/tdih/), and (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/),
which give interesting current events and historical information about the day. Certain students are chosen to quiz the class on what's in the news that day. All of these web sites are bookmarked on our home page, and the students have their Internet accounts set up to come up to this page.

Each class historian and meteorologist prints out their page, and we store them in a class book. The students can go back and look at the year's weather and history in their spare time."
Submitted by: Jennifer Harper SunMAC1@email-removedm, a third and fourth grade teacher at Cavendish Town Elementary School in Proctorsville, Vermont. This tip was published in the NEA's Weekly Tip Newsletter.