Learning from Other Technology Lessons (continued)

Two of the best ideas that I saw that used technology in the classroom included a lesson about rocks and minerals where the teacher took pictures of the rocks she had viewed at a rock conference and shared them with her students. I thought this was a very resourceful way to teach about rocks. While some schools may have the resources available to let every student handle the rocks they are discussing in class, other schools lack this resource and therefore her powerpoint was perfect! Also, another teacher took her first-graders on an "adventure" to Africa to look at some monkeys. She showed where they were from as well as what the monkeys looked like. The students really loved it and got into the idea of traveling to see these animals.