Technology Homework Help
Great Web Sites
The following web sites are excellent and will help you with homework. Please use them.
www.discoveryschool.com
Lots of serious information can be found here, but fun games and ideas too. Parents will love this site. Contains BJ Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper which is one of the most useful and best sites on the Web with links to over 700 sites.
www.brainpop.com
This is an incredible site that we will be subscribing to next year. The special features are animated video clips of subjects from all school subjects. We have paid for school and home use of this site. Your user name is LAVALLETTE; the password is PIRATES. You will learn a tremendous amount from this site!!!
www.yahooligans.yahoo.com
Yahoo's Web guide for kids.
www.seaworld.org
This is a great site to find information on many animals. The best place to find the information is in the Animal Bytes section
www.ajkids.com
Ask Jeeves for help on anything. Kids love him! On the left hand side he has an area called News Resources. Click on it and it takes you to terrific news and other sites for children. The selection of links to sites like National geographic is incredible.
www.homeworkspot.com
very useful site with links separated into elementary, middle, and high schools.
www.infoplease.com
contains access to almanacs, atlases, a dictionary and encyclopedia. It is a must see site. The Homework Center is excellent. You can plug in a year and it gives you world events and other information for that year.
www.historychannel.com
contains speeches, biographies, this day in history – all from the History Channel
www.si.edu
great site from the Smithsonian Institute
http://oceancounty.lib.nj.us
our county library has a great site which will give you access to many kids sites and a teen zone.
www.kidsource.com
this site provides mainly children related health information especially useful to parents.
www.enchantedlearning.com
great site for younger children
www.nea.org/readacross/resources/index.html
parents this is a great site to find lists of books for children that teachers like and students' favorite picks.
www.seussville.com
a site packed with Seussy activities and games for children
www.antarcticconnection.com
a great site for information on penguins
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PEP & SOAR Reading
Books That We Are Reading:
Every student in my class is to read at least one book each marking period for a book report. The books we are presently reading are:
Grade 1: Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy
Grade 2: Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Grade 3: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Grade 4: Summer of the Swans!
Remember to use
The monthly calendar in your packet has your homework!!!!
Study Island during the school year and read every night for 20 minutes!!!!!!
Your Book Reports were awesome!
KIDS' RULES FOR ONLINE SAFETY
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1. I will not give out personal information such as my address, telephone number, parents' work address/telephone number, or the name and location of my school without my parents' permission.
2. I will tell my parents right away if I come across any information that makes me feel uncomfortable.
3. I will never agree to get together with someone I "meet" online without first checking with my parents. If my parents agree to the meeting, I will be sure that it is in a public place and bring my mother and father along.
4. I will never send a person my picture or anything else without checking with my parents first.
5. I will not respond to any messages that are mean or in any way make me feel uncomfortable. It is not my fault if I get a message like that. If I do I will tell my parents right away so that they can contact the service provider.
6. I will talk with my parents so that we can set up rules for going online. We will decide upon the time of that day I can be online, the length of time I can be online, and appropriate areas for me to visit. I will not access other areas or break these rules without their permission.
7. I will not give out my Internet password to anyone (even my best friend) other that my parents.
8. I will be a good online citizen and not do anything that hurts other people or is against the law.
Rules one through six are adapted from the brochure Child Safety on the Information Highway by Lawrence J. Magid.
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Media Center News!
After School Homework Help
Point Beach High School students that graduated from Lavallette have offered their services to be homework helpers for our students again next year. They will be here on Tuesdays and Thursdays right after school until 4:00. Anyone that needs homework help is welcome! Our students had a great year last year with all of their help! A special thank you to all of our high school tutors!
We Are Up and Running!!!
We are very excited because our new Library Automation System is finished. The process of putting all of our books into the system is done! Each book was scanned and added to our collection. This took a lot of time, but we already have 14,500 books scanned!!!! A very special thank you to all the Moms, teachers, aides and students who helped to unpack and scan our books! We would not be up and running without your help!
Please remember that our Media Center and Technology Lab are open every day after school for students to use for research, Study Island, homework, or to type up reports and projects on the computers until 3:45. Hope to see you here!!!!
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National Technology Standards
for All Students
The technology foundation standards for students are divided into six broad categories. Standards within each category are to be introduced, reinforced, and mastered by students. These categories provide a framework for linking performance indicators within the Profiles for Technology Literate Students to the standards. Teachers can use these standards and profiles as guidelines for planning technology-based activities in which students achieve success in learning, communication, and life skills.
- Basic operations and concepts
- Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
- Students are proficient in the use of technology.
- Social, ethical, and human issues
- Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
- Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.
- Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits, and productivity.
- Technology productivity tools
- Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
- Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
- Technology communications tools
- Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
- Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
- Technology research tools
- Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
- Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
- Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.
- Technology problem-solving and decision-making tools
- Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
- Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.
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And think about it!
SAFETY TIPS FOR TEENS
1) Don’t give your profile when signing up on email or using a chat room and don’t believe the profiles you read. Remember that cute little blonde can actually be a 6' 3" male.
2) Be cautious of someone who wants to know too much. There is no rule that says you have to share any personal information.
3) Trust your instincts. If someone makes you feel uncomfortable, go out of the chat room or off line.
4) If you are planning on meeting up with someone you've meet online, bring a friend or a parent along and meet in a public place you are familiar with. Suggest they bring someone along also.
5) If you are getting suspicious email or junk mail, just trash it. Try notifying your service provider to see if certain types of mail can be blocked. If it can't just don’t answer it and it will probably stop arriving.
6) Avoid chat rooms that are provocative.
7) Don’t let people trick you into trusting them, or push you into online fights - you don’t even know them personally. (remember suggestion 1)
Compiled from the Get Net Wise Site. www.Getnetwise.org
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