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MIDDLE SCHOOL CORNER
 * 1. Filamentality ||
 * Filamentality is a Web tool for a teacher that helps sort through topics and Web sites related to a topic of interest for any activity. While searching and plugging in information, you will turn your sources into a Web-based activity to use in your classroom or share with your colleagues. ||


 * 2. Integrating Inquiry and Technology into the Middle School Curriculum ||
 * Make It Happen is an approach that improves middle school education for students with diverse learning abilities. In the Make It Happen approach, interdisciplinary teams of teachers design and implement inquiry-based I-Search Units and integrate technology into these units in meaningful ways to benefit students. The I-Search Unit is the very heart of Make It Happen because it links effective teaching, learning through content knowledge, research processes, and assessment. ||


 * 3. Write Me a Story ||
 * Write Me a Story is the place where your students can practice their writing skills, stretch their imaginations, read fun stories, and maybe even get published on the Internet! Each week students are challenged to write a story using a preselected character, place, and prop. Five stories are randomly selected each week and showcased in the Web site’s Stunningly Stupendous Stories section the next week. ||


 * 4. WebQuest Example Matrix: Grades 6-8 ||
 * Students and teachers can find a plethora of WebQuests covering the middle school curriculum for use in the middle school environment. WebQuest projects are provided in the content areas of Art and Music, Business/Economics, English/Language Arts, Foreign Language, Health and P.E., Life Skills/Careers, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Professional Skills, and Technology. ||


 * 5. Classroom Conferencing ||
 * Classroom Conferencing uses video conferencing software, such as CU-SeeMe and other programs, to connect communities, cultures, and classrooms with ease so students around the world can learn together. A classroom conference is an innovative meeting conducted via the Internet where the participants can see and hear each other, even though the attendees may be in different places. ||


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">6. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Did You Say, INTEGRATE Technology??? ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Need some great ideas for teaching your curriculum? This Web site offers a few ideas for using Virtually Yours to integrate technology with standard curriculum in every subject. You start with your own curriculum, which is the best part. For example, using Virtually Yours, you could ask your students to pretend to be a resident of any country as they write a story about it. ||


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">7. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The GeoGame ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In this interactive project, students research their community and enter the information in the GeoGame questionnaire. After entering the information, the class selects a GeoGame to play against other classes. This is a fun way to integrate technology, social studies, research, and writing. ||


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">8. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Family Education Network ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This site provides parents with access to unbiased, practical information to help them become more involved in their children's education. Parents can engage their children in fun learning programs and connect with other parents to share their experiences. ||


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">9. <span style="color: #000066; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">New Middle School Teacher Guide ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Middle Web has created an extensive list of resources to help the new middle school teacher during the first few weeks of school. This site is an excellent resource for new and veteran teachers alike. ||