Effectively Using the Internet with Students in Social Studies

… to do research

Reading and Comprehending

Skills associated with acquiring, decoding, evaluating and organizing information

“Children control it now. They need to learn how to control their information in positive, productive and personally meaningful ways- and this is what we need to be teaching them to do.” ~ David Warlick

“We… have lost control of the information.

Two Dimensional Reading

Three Dimensional Reading

Across and Down Across, Down and Deeper

Documents hyperlinked to other documents

Samantha went to the next part of the zoo. She saw apes in this part. In the main habitat there were chimpanzees. They were playful and friendly. The little chimpanzees played with each other and ran around on the ground and in the trees. In the next habitat, Samantha saw gorillas. They were much larger and seemed to be resting. They were friendly to each other and to their children. Samantha went to a building where lemurs live. They come from a large island near Africa called Madagascar. There are not very many lemurs left in Madagascar. They seemed very shy and sad

You’ve typed the story into a Word document- students access this document

Students browse through www.yahooligans.com or http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick! and select a web page that corresponds with each of the animals they read about.

Students turn the story into a hyperlinked document. Depth can be added by asking students to learn one new thing about each animal and add it to the text of the story.

Samantha went to the next part of the zoo. She saw apes in this part. In the main habitat there were chimpanzees. They were playful and friendly. The little chimpanzees played with each other and ran around on the ground and in the trees. In the next habitat, Samantha saw gorillas. They were much larger and seemed to be resting. They were friendly to each other and to their children. Samantha went to a building where lemurs live. They come from a large island near Africa called Madagascar. There are not very many lemurs left in Madagascar. They seemed very shy and sad

1) Highlight the word you wish to hyperlink.

2) Right-click on the word and select Hyperlink.

3) On the window that appears, paste or type the URL format he page you want to link to.

Scaffolding Students

• Filamentality: hotlists, scavenger hunts and samplers