January Staff Development Workshop
New
Date:
The aim of this Staff
Development Workshop is to become aware of available
Internet resources to improve student achievement in math, science, and
language arts.
Teacher’s Name: Jamie
White
Grade Level: 4
Language Arts Internet Resources-List sites you feel would be useful in assisting students in skill mastery. The website URL can be copied and pasted in the space provided below. Explain briefly how you would utilize the site.
Site 1: http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html
Utilization: I would you this site as an extra spelling exercise for my fourth grade students. This activity would be beneficial by allowing students to discover new words and their spellings other than their specific weekly spelling words.
Site 2: http://www.funbrain.com/plurals/index.html
Utilization: I would use this site to allow students to practice identifying the plural spellings of words. This site also offers the teacher a daily report of students’ scores to be sent via e-mail.
Math Internet Resources-List sites you feel would be useful in assisting students in skill mastery. The website URL can be copied and pasted in the space provided below. Explain briefly how you would utilize the site.
Site 1: http://208.183.128.3/integrate/mult/mult_files/frame.htm
Utilization: I would use this activity on this site to teach my students how to solve math word problems using multiplication skills. This presentation teaches and helps students to visualize the word problems in attempting to solve the problem.
Site 2: http://www.prongo.com/math/
Utilization: This game site would be used for extra practice on basic skills with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students can set their own level of difficulty.
Science Internet Resources-List sites you feel would be useful in assisting students in skill mastery. The website URL can be copied and pasted in the space provided below. Explain briefly how you would utilize the site.
Site 1: http://germantown.k12.il.us/html/solsysa.html
Utilization: This site on the solar system would be especially useful for my teaching space concepts. Students are able to learn about the various characteristics of the solar system such as planets and other vocabulary terms associated with space.
Site 2: http://brainpop.com/science/space/moon/index.weml
Utilization: I would use this site to show short movies based on scientific reasoning. The quizzes at the end of each show will help summarize each lesson.