Internet Resources in the World Cultures Classroom

Fall Institute - November 6, 1996

This page and its resources were created as part of the Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh Fall Institute. World Culture teachers in the Pittsburgh Public Schools are using the Internet in a variety of ways. Thanks to Len Donaldson, Peabody High School, Michael Losk, Stevens Elementary School, and Sandy Miller, Milliones Middle School for sharing their classroom lessons.

Some sources for implementing the Internet into the World Cultures classroom:

On World Peace Day November 17, 1995 two schools in Pennsylvania USA celebrated by having a poster contest. The schools were Greenfield and Colfax elementaries

World Peace Day - Colfax and Greenfield Elementary Schools.

Stokan's Studio is a second grade class with a language arts emphasis on art history. We have studied art from Medieval Times and are approaching art in the present day. One of the artists we've studied recently is Van Gogh. The children wrote their impressions of one of his paintings.

Stokan's Studio

One of the interest classes offered during 2nd semester in the afternoon at Woolslair Gifted Center was "Computer Bytes". The teacher was Mrs. Ochs. The students in this class went on the Internet using Netscape, a Webcrawler, and Pine, an e-mail program. They got their own accounts and were able to write to other students from grades 2 to 6 (at least) in different states and countries such as Canada and Finland. The students wrote reviews after exploring the web. They rated the sites as "Bytes". 1 byte = poor, 2 = a little better, 3 = fair, 4 = pretty good, and 5 = great. Some children really liked the sites, but some found sites that they rated either 3, 2, or 1 bytes. That means they weren't satisfied. The children helped to design the Woolslair Computer Bytes Homepage. They have done a lot of work and have come up with good ideas. They all seem to have had a great time as they explored the 'Net, wrote reviews, and designed pages.

Woolslair Computer Bytes

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is collaborating with Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh in an online hypertext exhibit of some 500 historical photographs and images, accompanied by text, of Pittsburgh, its bridges and its neighborhoods.

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