Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Languages
Title | Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Kent Norsworthy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2000-11-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1567508820 |
Language teachers, social studies teachers, and school library media specialists will find this resource invaluable for providing lessons and activities in critical thinking for students in grades 7-12. It is filled with over 200 primary source Internet sites covering the Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Latin languages. Each Web site will help reinforce language skills while providing students with interactive lessons on the unique culture of the peoples who speak the language. The next best thing to visiting the country itself! For each of the 56 primary Web sites, a site summary is given describing its contents and usefulness to teachers and school library media specialists. Site subjects may include: a country's radio or news program; the history of a country and its visual arts, including museums; foods eaten by the people who speak this language and recipes on how to prepare them; ceremonies, customs, and sports enjoyed; geography of the countries who speak this language; and sites to help practice the language itself. Following are a list of questions and activities which students can prepare orally or in written form, and at least four more related Web sites are provided for further study. Using this book will not only help students increase their language skills, but it will also open up the entire culture, to enable students to experience it just as if they were visiting!
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature
Title | Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Roxanne M. Kent-Drury |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2005-03-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0313068658 |
Presenting web sites from around the world covering much of the world's literature, this book provides creative and interesting thinking activities to enhance student understanding of literature and culture and to promote critical thinking. This book will be very useful to teachers of world history and literature at the senior high school and undergraduate level. Part of a well reviewed series of titles Using Internet Primary Sources to Promote Critical Thinking, carries on the tradition of excellence in instructional tools. Grades 9-12.
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Visual Arts
Title | Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Visual Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela J. Eyerdam |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2003-03-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0313078270 |
Use the Internet to teach visual arts and refine students' critical thinking skills! This book is based on the Discipline-Based Art Education program, a proven art instruction program that teaches everything from the creative process and art history to criticism and aesthetics. An abundance of primary source Web sites and background information is offered. The main focus of the book is western art history and painting, but examples of sculpture, drawings, prints, and architecture are included, along with a chapter on diversity. Part I provides background material. A brief history of art education is presented, followed by a review of the components of design elements and principles. The book describes using the Internet as a primary source by identifying and evaluating websites. Part II follows the program through the main historical periods, from prehistoric and ancient Middle Eastern art, through the Renaissance, through the 20th century. A bibliography and index are included.
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Issues
Title | Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Issues PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Shiveley |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2001-09-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0313075727 |
Teachers of political science, social studies, and economics, as well as school library media specialists, will find this resource invaluable for incorporating the Internet into their classroom lessons. Over 150 primary source Web sites are referenced and paired with questions and activities designed to encourage critical thinking skills. Completing the activities for the lessons in this book will allow students to evaluate the source of information, the content presented, and it usefulness in the context of their assignments. Along with each Web site, a summary of the site's contents identifies important primary source documents such as constitutions, treaties, speeches, court cases, statistics, and other official documents. The questions and activites invite the students to log on to the Web site, read the information presented, interact with the data, and analyze it critically to answer such questions as: Who created this document? Is the source reliable? How is the information useful and how does it relate to present-day circumstances? If I were in this situation, would I have responded the same way as the person in charge? Strengthening these critical thinking skills will help prepare students for both college and career in the 21st century.
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Mathematics
Title | Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Mathematics PDF eBook |
Author | Evan M. Glazer |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2001-08-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0313074348 |
Mathematics teachers and school library media specialists will find this book a valuable resource for using the Web to promote critical thinking in the high school mathematics classroom. It is filled with instructional strategies and an expansive set of activities that cover a broad array of mathematics topics spanning from prealgebra through calculus. Teachers using the questions and activities in this book will help their students meet the standards set forth by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics. Various types of mathematics related sources on the Internet are outlined within this book, including data and simulations related to real world situations such as saving funds and computing interest earned for college, purchasing a home, or decoding train and plane schedules. The author develops a framework for critical thinking in mathematics and helps teachers create a supportive classroom environment. Each activity highlights a web source, the mathematics topics involved, the appropriate grade levels of study, possible student investigations, and related web sources for continued exploration, promoting a student-centered inquiry.
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History
Title | Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in History PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen W. Craver |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1999-10-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1567507360 |
History teachers and school library media specialists will find this guide a valuable resource for creating technologically advanced, resource-based instructional units in American and World History in grades 7-12. It is filled with 150 recommended primary source Internet sites about history ranging from ancient civilizations to 1998 and is stocked with exciting, interesting, and challenging questions designed to stimulate students' critical thinking skills. Dr. Craver, who maintains an award-winning interactive Internet database and conducts technology workshops for school library media specialists, provides an indispensable tool to enable students to make the best use of the Internet for the study of history. Each site is accompanied by a summary that describes its contents and usefulness to history teachers and school library media specialists. The questions that follow are designed specifically to stimulate critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are deemed essential for students if they are to succeed academically and economically in the twenty-first century. An annotated appendix of selected primary source databases includes the Internet addresses for 60 additional primary source sites.
Creating Cyber Libraries
Title | Creating Cyber Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen W. Craver |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2002-05-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 031301390X |
As prices of traditional library materials increase, and space to house them shrinks, savvy school library media specialists are creating cyber libraries, or school libraries on the Internet. These libraries offer students and their parents 24-hour access and are invaluable for providing up-to-date information in a way traditional materials cannot. This guide outlines the steps library media specialists can take to create a cyber library, provide content and policies for use, and maintain it for maximum efficiency. Craver justifies the need for cyber libraries in the 21st century, and how they can help librarians to meet the standards in Information Power (1998). She explains the different types of cyber libraries available, along with their advantages and disadvantages. She discusses how to construct them using portals or by acquiring fee-based cyber libraries, and what policies should be in place to protect both the school and its students. Also included are instructions for establishing remote access to subscription databases, creating cyber reading rooms, and providing instructional services to student users. Once a cyber library is created, it must be maintained and evaluated to keep it useful and current, and this book provides guidelines to do so. Finally, there is a chapter on promoting the cyber library, so the school community is aware of its features and participates in its growth process. No school library should be without this volume!