WebQuest

I really enjoyed WebQuest and I think that students would love to do this as a class. It's a great way to bring technology into the classroom and it could help children learn about some things that they are interested in. It makes students learning their own responsibility and gives them an opportunity to get involved with the other students. If I were to make a MapQuest I would want it to be about the animals and the changes that happen to them over time.
Kindergarten Content
Standard 3: Students will develop an understanding of their environment.
Objective 2: Observe and describe animals in the local environment.

I would want them to get an understanding of some of the animals that are around, how they care for their young, describe and compare amiliar animals, describe how young animals differ from adult animals, observe and imitate the sounds and movements of animals, and distinguish between real and make-believe animal behaviors. I would want to make sure that they could get some hands on expereinces with all of these things.

Website evaluation

http://www.first-school.ws/themes.html

I used the Kathy Shrocks Guide for educators evaluation sheet and I really liked this sheet I think that it helped me determine this website.  This website was for preschool lesson plans and for the most part it had everything on the worksheet.  I couldn't see the authors names but I think it's because there are many authors to it because teachers have just posted lesson plans.  I couldn't find the date it was posted but it was easy to find things and gave me good ideas.

http://www.he.weber.k12.ut.us/office.html

The third evaluation form helped me out pretty good.  This website was pretty good but it can improve.  It was really easy to access what I needed the only thing I didn't like is that you couldn't learn too much about the teachers.  All you  could get were their names and what grade they taught.  It depended on the teacher how well their part of the page was but for the most part it was pretty good.

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/comma.html

This one was really good and easy to access.  The authors name and date it was posted was really easy to find along with the title.  You could easily get back to the homepage and it was all around a good website.

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/ekowalcz/math/elementary_web_sites.htm

The sheet that I liked best was the third sheet I think that those questions were the most helpful in distinguishing whether a website was well written or not.  This last one was kind of cool it had a lot of problems that the children could try and figure out and work with.  It was very interactive for the children and it was easy to access.  

spreadsheets, surveys, and graphs.

I loved the survey part of this lesson I think there are so many things that you could do as a class with this. Any subject that you learn you could have children think of questions that they might have about a subject and put a survey together and send it either to their parents or other teachers and see what the responses might be. I think that this would be such a fun project to do as a class and children can learn so much from it like collecting data for a subject they're tyring to figure out. I'm not a real big fan of the spreadsheets yet because I haven't really thought of any fun things to do with it yet. I think that it could be a good tool for collecting data and other things. I'll have to think of something to do with it though. Love, Love, Love the survey I thought it was awesome.