The second publication in the NETS Project, National Educational Technology Standards for Students: Connecting Curriculum and Technology, takes a critical step toward empowering todayÕs KÐ12 students for a complex and demanding future. Three dozen teacher-created lesson plans, sequenced by grade level, illustrate the connection between teaching specific disciplines—English language arts, foreign language, mathematics, science, and social studies—and NETS for Students performance indicators. Each lesson sequence addresses national standards for the discipline, suggests related resources, and provides a brief narrative by a teacher who has actually used the lesson in a classroom.

The second part of this versatile and comprehensive resource embraces eight powerful themes through multidisciplinary learning activities. Direct links are made between content standards from two or more subject areas and the NETS for Students performance indicators. Units for each grade range provide developmentally appropriate themes, tools, and resources from which teachers can choose when developing specific learning experiences for their classrooms. Also includes the full text of the National Educational Technology Standards for Students.

This book provides an overview of technology's place in curriculum, sample lessons, educational technology standards, and performance indicators with examples and scenarios for different grade levels. Combining the ideal with the practical, this book also provides insight into avenues that might lead to the realization of the standards.

The third section is the meatiest and by far the strongest of the book. It features lessons consisting of several activities and student projects for assessment. One lesson in particular, "Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life," was a real standout. Created for language arts secondary students, this lesson has the potential to be used throughout a student's high school career. The project could be developed to cover the course of those discovery years and trace a young person's exploration of literature and self-reflection. In total, there are eight lessons for language arts, four for foreign language, eight for mathematics, eight for science, and eight for social studies.

Section four includes eight additional multidisciplinary lessons, many of which include at least 10 activities. The appendix includes the technology standards as they apply to each discipline, templates for designing your own lessons, workshop guides for staff development, resources, and a glossary. The appendix is as useful as the body of the book.

One of the practical strengths of this book is that it is spiral bound, making it easy to copy the pages. The technology referenced and suggested for use with the activities includes much more than computers and Internet. Students will use video and digital cameras, radios, telephones, audiotape players, and much more. This broad range of technology expands our view of the standards and their application in education.

Although this book has something to offer all teachers, secondary educators will probably tend to use only the sections written for their discipline. This is not a weakness of the book, just the nature of the high school beast. However, it would definitely be to teacher's advantage to delve into the other discipline areas. Much is to be gained by reading the entire book and adapting some of the ideas presented outside of a given teaching area. I would recommend this book as a resource for all teachers and instructional leaders as well as preservice teachers and their instructors.

Table Contents:

Section 1 4

• Connecting Curriculum and Technology
• Essential Conditions to Make It Happen
• What is Curriculum Integration?
• Development of This Book
• How to Use This Book
• Beyond This Book

Section 2

• National Educational Technology Standards for Students
• Technology Foundation Standards for Students
• Profiles for TechnologyÐLiterate Students: Performance Indicators, Curriculum Examples, and Scenarios
• Grades PreKÐ2
• Grades 3Ð5
• Grades 6Ð8
• Grades 9Ð12

Section 3

• Curriculum Integration
• Introduction
• English Language Arts Learning Activities
• Introduction
• PreKÐ2 Awesome Authors
• PreKÐ2 Brrrr, It's Alive
• 3Ð5 Wall of Fame
• 3Ð5 You Were There!
• 6Ð8 Birthstone Project with a Multimedia Twist
• 6Ð8 Creating a Heroic Character
• 9Ð12 Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life
• 9Ð12 What Makes the Writer Write?
• Foreign Language Learning Activities
• Introduction
• PreKÐ2 Abuelita y Yo: Just Grandma and Me
• 3Ð5 Les Voyageurs: The Explorers
• 6Ð8 Keypals
• 9Ð12 Servus in …sterreich: Welcome to Austria
• Mathematics Learning Activities
• Introduction
• PreKÐ2 A Number a Day
• PreKÐ2 Beanie® Babies
• 3Ð5 Million Dollar Project
• 3Ð5 What's My Structure?
• 6Ð8 Design Your Own Bedroom
• 6Ð8 Getting It Right! An Investigation of the
• Pathagorean Theorem
• 9Ð12 Chaos and Beyond
• 9Ð12 Lining Up Data
• Science Learning Activities
• Introduction
• PerKÐ2 Classifying Animals
• PerKÐ2 Home Sweet Home
• 3Ð5 Who's Who in Fingerprinting
• 3Ð5 World Wide Weather
• 6Ð8 Bird RapÐA Web Guide to Local Birds
• 6Ð8 Earth Movement in Real Time
• 9Ð12 Acceleration
• 9Ð12 How Big Are We?
• Social Studies Learning Activities
• Introduction
• PreKÐ2 Celebrating Our Nation's Diversity
• PreKÐ2 Postc@rds from the Net
• 3Ð5 Navigating by Landmarks
• 3Ð5 You Want to Sell Me What? The Many Forms of
• Advertising
• 6Ð8 Into the Next Millennium
• 6Ð8 Walk in My Shoes
• 9Ð12 Commemoration of the Gettysburg Battlefield:
• The Gettysburg Address
• 9Ð12 Population Growth and Urban Planning

Section 4

• Multidisciplinary Resource Units
• Introduction
• PreKÐ2 Communities
• PreKÐ2 Worldwide Weather on the Web3Ð5 Inventions
• 3Ð5 States
• 6Ð8 Advertising
• 6Ð8 Antarctica: The Land Under "Down Under"
• 9Ð12 Innovations: Past, Present, Future
• 9Ð12 When Does Data Become Knowledge?

Appendices

• A. Standards
• NETS for Students
• English Language Arts
• Foreign Language
• Information Literacy
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies
• B. NETS Workshop Staging Guide
• Introduction
• Workshop 1: Linking Learning Activities to Content and Technology Standards
• Workshop 2: Multidisciplinary Resource Unit Development
• Workshop 3: Learning Activity Development from Multidisciplinary Resource Units
• Learning Activity Template
• Learning Activity Review Form
• Multidisciplinary Resource Unity Templates (Primary Grades PreKÐ2, Intermediate Grades 3Ð5, Middle Grades 6Ð8,
• Secondary Grades 9Ð12)
• Multidisciplinary Resource Unit Review Form
• C. NETS Project Partnership
• Partner Organization Representatives
• CoÐsponsors
• Curriculum Organization Representatives
• Writing Team Participants
• D. Resources
• Books, Videos, CDÐROMs, and Audiotapes
• Software Listed by Type
• Software Pulishers
• National Educational Software Distributors
• Web Sites of Links to Educational Web Sites

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