Once descriptions have been exchanged, students will do their best to draw the monster from the description. Finally, all students will come together to share and compare. International Email Connections Students will learn writing skills and a global sense as they communicate electronically, concentrating on sentence structure, spelling, details, and composition. 12 minutes Students will be able to describe how a person should prepare for a hurricane. This lesson involves students searching for information on volcanoes and earthquakes to determine which would be safer to live near.
Students use the internet to study the creation of landforms and mountains.
Students will track these events by locating longitudes and latitudes of reported events on a world map. Students were trained to collect samples from the Elizabeth River and post data on a web site, including text and graphics. This unit takes place over the course of a year, and this lesson on web authoring is only one part. The students will be refining their search skills, practicing their grammar skills, obtaining answers to interesting math fact and working under time constraints. Although this lesson is for math, it could be adapted for any class.