Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.
http://www.abcya.com/telling_time.htm
This link uses the tool of Educational Games in order for students to learn the mathematical standard of telling time. I think educational games are very helpful in the teaching profession because they engage the learner while at the same time providing practice of the lesson. If I were a teacher, I would teach this standard by first explaining it in a classroom setting, through notes and examples to the entire class. Then I would answer any questions students may immediately have on the lesson. Next I would hand out a practice worksheet so that the students can individually attempt to solve the problems, and raise their hands for extra one-on-one help. After the worksheets is when I would bring the class to a computer lab and introduce the educational game. This way the students get extra practice, remain engaged in the lesson, and can even have a little fun after the hard classroom work.
I am a huge supporter of using the Internet for student research. I think it is much more efficient than the old-fashioned way of having to find all the facts inside tons of different books. However, it is very important that students know how to use the Internet appropriately for research, that is by getting their information form credible sources. Students need to be able to recognize the difference between websites that have credible information with those that do not. Students need to realize that any person in the world is able to create a website, and they can easily put inaccurate information on their web pages, like for example some pages on Wikipedia. If students are going to use the Internet for research for important papers or presentations, they need to know the credibility of the authors, how current the information is, and the website's objective.
In high school, I had to use a lot of Internet-based resources for research for papers and presentations. In some of my classes my teachers would explain some fundamentals in determining whether a website was credible or not. First of all, my teachers stressed the importance of URL's. They taught us that usually URL's ending in ".gov" or ".org" were more credible than some of those that end in ".com." As the podcast also mentioned, the ending of a URL can bring you to a completely different website than what you were searching for if you're not careful. That is why it is important for teachers, especially those of younger students, to provide links for students to use for research so that they do not end up on an inappropriate website. In addition, I have always looked out for too much advertising on a website as a sign for that website maybe not being credible. If there are a ton of pop-ups on the screen, as the podcast also mentioned, you probably shouldn't use it for research. But overall, I can usually tell if a website is credible based on the overall visual appearance and technical reliability. Using the acronym "ABCDT" that the podcast provides is a good method to remember what to look for when looking for reliable sources on the Internet.
Ever since elementary school, I've been using Google as my primary source for research. So when doing the WebHunt assignment, I already knew how to find a majority of the questions quickly and efficiently on Google. One aspect that I did not know about was that you can exclude certain websites in a search with the "-" key. I thought that was very helpful when wanting to narrow down your search. I also, surprisingly, never knew that Google Scholar even existed. So this will now be very useful to me throughout the rest of my college years when I need to find scholarly articles for research.
WebHunt Challenges:
- Find a current event, from the past week, that occurred in Spain.
- Find a hotel in Tallahassee that is not associated with Hilton.
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