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- The Wonders of
Wind
- Social Studies: Asia, World
- Math/Science: Weather, Energy
- Industrial Arts: Wind Power
- Consumer Ed: Costs of Power
- Literature: Poetry
- Writing: Persuasive Writing
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- Look for Links Pages
- Locate "headquarters" pages
- Consider link rot
- Weed out overlap
- Check readability
- Match to standards
- http://environment.about.com/newsissues/environment/msubae3.htm
- Http://eduscapes.com/42explore/wind.htm
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- Look for
Information
- Find 4 good starting points
- Statistics
- Data
- History
- Facts
- http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fw/home.rxml
- http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wwind0.htm
- http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/story/story-html/chapter10.html
- http://solstice.crest.org/renewables/re-kiosk/wind/index.shtml
- http://kitecast.com/
- http://www.gombergkites.com/nkm/hist1.html
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- Look for Global
Issues
- Perspectives from others
- Events around the world
- Students in other areas
- http://rotor.fb12.tu-berlin.de/overview.html
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- Look for Events
- Olympics
- Earth Day
- Space Day
- This Day in History
- Kite Month
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- Look for Create
Ideas
- Step-by-step instruction
- Directions
- Experiments
- Products to create
- http://www.learn2.com/04/0479/0479.php3
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- Look for Projects
- Thematic Units
- Online Projects
- Collaborative Units
- http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/energy/wind.html
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- Look for Music
- Music
- Sounds
- Voice
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/interact/longterm/horizon/121196/wind.htm
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- Look for Artwork
- Photos
- Painting
- Collage
- Sculpture
- http://cmp1.ucr.edu/exhibitions/hoffer/home/hoffer.wind.html
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- Look for Student
Projects
- ThinkQuest
- Cyberfair
- International projects
- School districts
- http://library.thinkquest.org/28035/
- http://tqjunior.advanced.org/5818/globalwinds.html
- http://cyberfair.gsn.org/gprep/kites.html
- http://www.resd.mb.ca/schools/princess.margaret/changing_earth/erosion/wind_erosion.html
- http://www.gahanna.k12.oh.us/schools/MSS/weather/7th/winds/index.html
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- Look for Virtual
Tours
- Photos
- Videos
- Ask the Expert
- http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/vollis/
- http://www.expertcentral.com/
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- Look for Utilities
- Conversion tables
- Calculators
- Translators
- http://www.srh.noaa.gov/elp/wxcalc/windconv.html
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- Look for movement
- Video
- Animation
- Skits
- Dances
- http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/energy/video.html
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- Look for Sharing
- Epals
- Online projects
- Electronic sharing
- http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/energy/windadd.html
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- For More Ideas
- Lesson Planning Sites
- School District Pages
- WebQuests
- Search engines
- "Bud Not Buddy" + "lesson plan"
- http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cy68.html
- http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/twist/nighttg.html
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- Start Small
- Short period of time
- Specific standards, Specific products
- Something that's been done before
- http://www.iditarod.com/
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- Join the Luau!
A Dozen Ideas for Successful, Technology-Rich,
Thematic Units
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- Choose Project Size
- One shot, Short term, Long term, Ongoing
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- Get Untied
- Self-direction, Self-reliance
- Each one, teach one
- Ask three before me
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- Anticipate Problems
- Be prepared with
- directions
- step-by-step help
- teaming guidelines
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- Be Prepared
- Specialized skills: teachers, students
- outside help
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- Use Technology
- Information
- Instruction
- Communication
- Collaboration
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- Locate Resources
- Dig up a variety of resources:
- text, auditory, visual, movement
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- Make It Real
- Local resources
- historical sites, natural areas, people
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- Co-Produce: Teams
- Teacher + Teacher
- Teacher + Community
- Teacher + Student
- Student + Student
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- Create
- Desktop Publications, Presentations
- Web Pages
- Useful Products
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- Evaluate
- Focus on
- standards
- collaboration
- thinking skills
- life-long learning
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- Celebrate
Success
- Share with
- other classes
- other schools
- parents
- community
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- Don't Be Scared!
- Fail forward
- Creative swap
- Try it, you'll like it!
Developed for hands-on workshop participants by
Annette
Lamb, 5/00
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