Web+Quests

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**__Web-Quests__**
Dianne's Web-Quests: web-quests are designed in SMART Notebook and are intended for use in the classroom. Links to web-sites are embedded in each web-quest. Teachers are free to use part or all of web-quests, or to modify to meet their needs. Students can work on them independently in the computer lab or you can use them for instruction.

**__Science Based Web-Quests__**
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 * **Grade 4** || **Grade 5** || **Alternative** ||
 * Light and Sound || Human Body || Human Body ||
 * Pulleys and Gears || Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms || Push and Pull ||
 * Habitats and Communities || Conservation of Energy and Resources || [[file:Alternative Animals.notebook]] ||
 * Rocks and Minerals ||  ||   ||
 * **Grade 6** || **Grade 7** ||  ||
 * [[file:Grade 6 Electricity and Electrical Devices.notebook]] || [[file:Grade 7 Pure Substances and Mixtures.notebook]] ||  ||
 * [[file:Grade 6 Space.notebook]]
 * Please contact Dianne directly for a Grade 5 Science Web-Quest on Properties and Changes in Matter.**

__**Lesson Plan Resources**__
Smart Lesson Exchange - collaborate, share and find Canadian standards based lesson plans for grades k-1



Tech2Learning - Teaching with Technology resources including tips on enhancing your curriculum with Ministry licensed software such as **Frames4**, **Clicker5** and Smartideas

EduBlogs This resource has great potential. Teachers will need to develop skills to develop their own site, but it is doable. Your site can be open to the public or private. You can moderate postings, so that nothing is posted without your approval. Mr Toft has a fantastic class blog and it serves as a model to emulate. Portable PD provides teachers with a wealth of information and work arounds for setting up a class blog using EduBlog.

Internet4Classrooms While not a UDL site, it is an intuitive and easy site for teachers to use. It provides links and suggestions for resources that can be used to develop UDL resources for the classroom.

ThinkQuest - A 21st Century Resource This is a wonderful resource that most students can use. Reading and writing skills are enhanced by uploading pictures. The wonderful part of this secure learning environment is that there are opportunities to collaborate on-line with other students, even those in other countries. Students in Grade 4 have had no difficulty using this site. There is no need for students to have e-mail accounts to set up your class. It is on-line, making it very portable. Students with low incidence, high needs would need support to use this site.

Australian Primary Maths Activities This is a great site (known as SmartKiddies) to use for instruction, assuming you have a SMART Board - although a cordless mouse that can be passed around may prove just as useful. It is equally beneficial to use to reinforce lessons. It is still free to register and has grown significantly in the past two years. You can register individual students, collect performance data, and so much more! Reading levels do not impact students' ability to use this site. It can be accessed from home. Every classroom should have either this or Gizmos.

Gizmos@explorelearning.com A wonderful site that focuses on inquiry based learning in science and math. It is applicable for Grades 3 through 12. It is an American product, so metric measurements and Canadiana canbe issues - it still has a great deal to offer! Most activities have a video to demonstrate how to use the Gizmo, making it accessible for most students to participate. However, successfully completing the 5 question multiple question quiz afterwards is most likely to depend on reading level. This product is developing and can easily be used for instruction. Like SmartKiddies, you can collect performance based data on individual students, simply by registering your class. It has limited Ministry licensing. Contact your IT Department for information.

Wordle A simple to use and very effective tool. You can copy and paste text in, or write in your own vocabulary to create a document. Students love this! Most students can make use of this tool, with varying degrees of support. Used to create name plates for desks with personal descriptors, title pages, examples of various types of vocabulary - adjectives, adverbs, nouns, etc. A flexible tool that can be used across the curriculum for a variety of exercises. Whenever you need to generate a list, Wordle makes it more interesting!

PhotoStory This site is great for developing a number of skills, including use of digital camera, mixing music, creating text, and putting it all together! Assignments that are an open ended question, or requiring the creation of a media text, make this an excellent choice. By running through the process with students, they become independent quite quickly. Students as young as Grade 3 can use this. Students like the finished product, and may even select it over creating video!

IXL Math A very useful site that has just about everything you might need for elementary math. It has videos, interactive activities, and printable materials that relate back to digital resources. Worth investigating!

SMART A wonderful site that provides information about SMART boards and SMART resources. Notebook, SMART software, is intuitive and easily used by teachers and students with little practice. By using a SMART board in the classroom, teachers model the use of technology and Notebook software. The software is flexible and has a high tolerance for errors, making it a great tool to use in the classroom. This is a sophisticated set of tools that suggests that it was designed with UDL in mind!