Links to Web sites are organized in the following four Corners, and different Web sites are available for each module: Elementary Corner, Middle School Corner, Secondary Corner, and Special Education Corner. Please explore links in your curriculum area or area of interest!

Elementary Corner  

• Teacher's Guides - SeaWorld offers great lessons for many grade levels. Teachers can creatively incorporate Word into any of these lessons.
• Busy As a Bee - Often we use phrases when we write to create word pictures such as "busy as a bee." This lesson plan defines similes for students and gives you some helpful writing ideas to encourage your students to write their own. Instead of using paper and crayons, have your students use MS Word and clip art to illustrate colorful word pictures.
• My Pet Goldfish - This cute lesson plan combines some important skills. Have your students type the unpunctuated sentences into MS Word then have them correct the punctuation and add some goldfish clip art. If you are pressed for time you can type it and then place the file on your computer's desktop. Have each student open the file, make the changes, and then save the file under their own name in My Documents. That way you can see what each student has done. Your file becomes a template for them!
• My Proudest Moment - This lesson plan for older elementary students involves the students interviewing three people about their proudest moment. They can prepare their questions ahead of time by typing them into MS Word. The students can also type their journalist report after they have conducted the interview. MS Word has many features like columns that the students could use to create a newsletter summarizing their interviews. This lesson encourages them to illustrate their journalistic summary as well.
• 2Cool Animations - It is always so much fun to illustrate your MS Word project with clip art. Here is a clip art site with lots of free graphics. Make sure you notice the drop down menu after you have clicked on a category for the clip art. MS Word 2000 supports animated clip art so your document will be too cool!

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Middle School Corner 

• Amazing Earth A Great KWL Project - This interdisciplinary lesson plan incorporates geography and language arts. Students can summarize what have they learned into a MS Word document and insert some of the graphics they have looked at along the way.
• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century - This Web site is a wonderful resource of topics for middle school students. The site provides a wealth of information on a variety of topics. The students can provide a typed summary paragraph with illustrations of the topics they found most interesting or learned the most from.
• Operation RubyThroat - Hummingbirds are everywhere! They even follow your cursor as you explore this interdisciplinary unit about hummingbirds. There are several writing activities here that can be done in MS Word and there are other lesson plan ideas for science and history as well.
• Good Ideas for Teenagers - This Web site is about Character Education. It includes a handout that you can give to your students to discuss the topic. The handout has numerous questions that could be assigned for them to type a response in MS Word. There are other lessons here as well. The topics also change so be sure to continue to check the site for new topics.
• Hello Dolly: A WebQuest - This science WebQuest is about the cloning of the sheep Dolly. Countries around the world are currently debating the potential impact of cloning in our world. The purpose of this Web site is to make students are aware of the issues and involve them in the decision making process. Have your students summarize in MS Word what they know about Dolly and/or cloning before they begin the WebQuest. Then have them summarize again what they have learned and what they thought about the activity after they have completed the Quest.

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Secondary Corner 

• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Exceptional Web site to use in teaching about American slavery. The lesson plan here asks students to create a field journal as they explore through the material. Have them open a MS Word document and insert pictures to illustrate their field journal.
• The Scarlet Letter - This classic book is featured in this lesson plan for high school students. The Web site contains many ideas for discussions about the book, but any number of the discussion questions could be used as an assignment written in MS Word. You will also find evaluation suggestions, as well as links to other Web sites and resources.
• Where Should I Build My Business? - Economics and social studies standards are met in this lesson plan about starting a business. The students are given a map of their hometown and asked to research where the best location might be in their hometown to begin a new business. Ask your students to use MS Word to answer some of the questions provided in the lesson plan, as they explore a real-life dilemma for a potential business owner.
• FRET: Free Resources for English Teaching - Teachers must register to access these free online resources and lesson plans. Explore some sample lesson plans! Any these lesson plans could integrate MS Word.
• Intro to Word Processing - This lesson goes over the basics again for the older or adult student, of how to begin a document. It also references how to edit, and format the document as well. Very helpful.

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Special Education Corner 

• Your Special Town - This lesson is a wonderful opportunity for your students to write about their town and explore what makes it unique. Students can then create a flyer using MS Word highlighting the unique and special features of their town. You can adapt the difficulty level of this assignment based on your students' needs.
• Special Ed Story Writing - This lesson idea was written by a special education teacher. He introduces the idea of quick books. Try using MS Word which easily creates an electronic journal. No more trying to keep their pages from falling out of the paper notebooks. Creative writing is an important skill for all students no matter what their ability level. There are a number of lesson plan ideas here for students with special needs. Scroll on!
• Tiger Culture - Tigers or Tiggers? Which would you rather meet? This lesson from National Geographic could be adapted many ways for your classroom. This lesson plan suggests having your students write a story about tigers combining facts and fiction. You could have your students learn facts about tigers, and read some fiction. The fiction can be simple such as A. A. Milne or incorporate parts of Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Book.
• Friendship - Read Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel to your students. The lesson is about friendship and what makes a good friend. In this lesson have your students write a letter in MS Word to a special friend telling them what they like about their friend. They can illustrate their story by adding clip art. This lesson plan also has some ideas for creating a semantic Web as well as a unit on frogs or toads!
• Enrichment Project Choice Ideas - Do you have gifted students in your class? This Web site will be a helpful resource for you. This site has a long list of enrichment projects that your gifted and advanced students might enjoy. A number of them can be done in MS Word, such as the Teacher Biography Book, Biography, Imaginary Animal Report, Surveys and Animal Project.

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