It's time to brush up those study skills. And the Fact
Monster is a great on-line resource for doing just that!
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Fact Monster Hunts
If your students enjoy doing these Fact Monster hunts, you might like to know that Education World has designed a series of weekly hunts that will challenge students to build research skills and cultural literacy as they learn about a wide variety of topics. Our Hunt the Fact Monster printable work sheets are ideally suited for use in your classroom computer center, in technology classes, or as a parent-and-students-together homework assignment. Click the link above to find a series of weekly work sheets designed for students in grades 2 to 4 and another series for students in grades 4 to 8.
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This week, Education World offers three teaching masters
for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on
their study skills -- using a search engine, using an index, looking
for key words, skimming text for information, and more -- while they
learn interesting facts about the world around them!
Creative teachers might use this week's Education
World teaching masters in many different ways:
- Have individual students complete a teaching master on their
own in a computer lab setting. Students might do the activity
as a "surfing competition." The first student to answer all ten
questions correctly is the winner.
- Post the teaching master activity as a learning center for students
to complete during the week. Students sign up for two half-hour
blocks on the computer. How many correct answers can they find
in the allotted time?
- Set up a teaching master as a spare-time activity, an activity
to challenge students who complete their assigned work early.
Award students points for each correct response. The student with
the most points at the end of the week earns a reward.
- Divide students into teams of three who will work together at
a computer. Team members discuss each question on the teaching
master and decide which key word/words they will use to find the
answer to the question. One member of the team does data entry;
that person decides which key word(s) will be plugged into the
search engine and does the keyboarding. The "researcher" looks
over the list of resources that come up as a result of the search
and, with the assistance of the other team members, decides which
pages to view first. A third member of the team, the "recorder,"
records the answer to each question and where that answer was
found.
Those are just a few of the many ways to use these
Education World teaching masters. Of course, you may adapt these teaching
tools to provide students with valuable study skills instruction and
practice.
Choose the teaching master that's best for your students:
The on-line version of the Fact
Monster is a valuable teaching tool. But no classroom should
be considered complete if it doesn't include the shelf version
of this great resource. Read a review of that book and find another
great activity in the Education World story, Summer
BOOK-TIVITIES #2.
Article by Gary Hopkins
Education World®
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