Below are some ideas on ways you can integrate the Internet into your curriculum. Check them out!  

Virtual Tours/Field Trips

Little Horus

http://www.horus.ics.org.eg/

Take a virtual tour of the ancient land of Egypt! Your guide is Little Horus, an Egyptian bird, who will introduce you to the present and past history of Egypt.

 

Virtual Tours

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/museums.html

This website has bookmarked over 10,000 selected sites and includes a searchable index to help you find what you are looking for.

Ask an Expert

 

Ask an Expert

Ask a Nasa Scientist

 

http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/FAQ/ask-a-scientist.htm

Electronic Postcards

BlueMountain Arts

 

http://www1.bluemountain.com/index.html
   
Warner Brothers Cards

 

http://www.wbwebcards.com/
     

 

123 Greetings

 http://www.123greetings.com/
     

Jan Brett's Postcards

 http://www.janbrett.com/postcards/cardpick_main_choice.htm

Key Pals

 Complete directions, suggestions, how-tos for Key Pals
   

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/article/penpal.htm
 

ePALS

http://www.epals.com/
     

Internet KeyPal Exchanges

 

http://www.cln.org/int_keypals.html
     

Intercultural Email Classroom Connections
          

 http://www.iecc.org/
   

 

Kidlink - http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/index.html

 

More Than Just Key Pals

 

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/article/penpal.htm

 

 Colloborative Projects

 

Traveling Buddies

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/article/travbud.htm
A fun and easy collaborative project that your classroom and even your whole school can participate in, is with Traveling Buddies. Traveling Buddies are stuffed animals that are mailed to participating schools. While this animal is visiting that school, the host school for the project and the participating school communicate between each other. This article will give you ideas on what kind of travel buddy you could use to represent your school, activities that you can do with participating schools, how to post your announcement for this project, a suggested itinerary, and ways that you can creatively share information.

 

Mind's Eye Monster Project
http://www.win4edu.com/minds-eye/monster/

A student draws an original monster and then communicates that drawing into words using the writing process and the writing skills taught by the teacher.

The student from a cooperating school (many times another country) receives the description and uses reading comprehension skills to try to redraw the original monster. The real trick is that the redrawn is done only from reading the description!

Virtual Quilt

The idea is that students will create a "patch" along with a description of how the patch represents their community. Then they submit the patch to the "seamstresses" at Ephesus Road Elementary School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and the patch and description are added to the existing quilt.

 

http://www.ibiblio.org/~ephesus/quilt.html

 

Monu-Mental

 

http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/dec98/monu.menu.htm

Students are invited to share information about historical buildings and landmarks located in their neighborhood.

Many, many more….and you can design your own!

  Publish your students’ work

KidArt

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDART/index.html
Kids up to 15 years old from all over the world are invited to submit art projects.

 

 

The Write Spot

http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/write.spot.html
Sponsored by the MidLink Magazine, students are invited to submit their poetry, stories and drama.

 

Many, many more…………..

Games

Bonus.com

http://www.bonus.com/
This is called the "SuperSite for Kids." You need Netscape 2.0 or better or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 to view this "kid-friendly" website. Games, puzzles, educational information, and more are offered at this site.

Fun Brain

http://www.funbrain.com/index.html
This sites hosts several fun, interactive games that will be sure to spice up your lessons: study English by creating a Wacky Tale, test your knowledge with counting out change, try your hand with a simple reading activity with Scratch­n­Sniff, or try your hand with math baseball with options on the level of difficulty.

Wild World of Words

http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/challenge/word.html
This interactive site offers a set of Web-based word puzzles for a K-12 students. Choose from three levels to practice your spelling skills!

 

Kids Crosswords and Other Puzzles

http://www.kidcrosswords.com/
This site is designed to provide educators with puzzles to use as an adjunct to their lesson plans. It contains puzzles for grades K-12 on subjects for history, science, English, geography, literature, math, and foreign languages.

 

And many, many more…………….