Quick & Easy Internet Activities For the One-Computer Classroom: Pioneers 20 Fun, Web-based Activities With Reproducible Graphic Organizers That Enable Kids to Research and Learn?on Their Own!

by Mitchell, Cindi

• ISBN13: 9780439280419
• ISBN10: 0439280419
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Teaching Resources

Summary

What was life like on the Oregon Trail? How did the pioneers build their homes? What kinds of toys did pioneer children play with? Students find the answers to these and more as they research pioneer life on the Internet. Reproducible activity sheets help students record and analyze their findings. Then they make a scrapbook of a family's journey west, create a 3-dimensional pioneer town, design a story quilt, and more. For use with Grades 4-8.

Author Biography

Cindi Mitchell is a former teacher with more than 12 years experience teaching at the elementary level. She is the author of numerous titles for Scholastic Professional Books including Great Graph Art: Multiplication and Division and Great Graph Art: Fractions and Decimals; Dazzling Math Line Designs, Grades 2-3 ,4-5, and 6-8; Amazing Math Puzzles and Mazes Grades 2-3 and 4-5; and Funtastic Math: Decimals and Fractions. Cindi lives in Navarre, Florida, with her husband Jim, and their two children, Ben and Jeannine, who test out all of her math activities.