Jeff's+Web+Evaluation


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Title: Immigration: The Demographic and Economic Facts Site URL: http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-imsum.html Curriculum area: Economics for high school students (immigration issues and the costs) Objectives supported by the site: readings on economics and immigration.


 * Comments:** This website has some useful information that could be suitable for a high school level economics or government class, but the reading may be at a level too high for the 9th or 10th grade. The site could be useful from a teaching perspective if a reading assignment was necessary for an upper level economics or government class. Some limitations of the site would be the actual design of the web page. the text is centered, but there is a border that goes around the page that is clearly off centered. The text is small and the web page does not any offer any links to other pages. If I had to use this web page in my lesson plan, I would offer it as a reading assignment and follow up with a in class quiz over the reading.

Title: Kidport grade 5 Site URL:http://www.kidport.com/grade5/socialstudies/SocStudiesIndex.htm Curriculum area: Social studies 5th grade (American Government/History) Objectives supported by the site: Quizzes and information on American Government.


 * Comments:** Kidport is a website that allows students to go online and take quizes over material such as pilgrims, US history, and the state capitals. This is a nice practice tool if you need your students to memorize all of the state capitals or the quizes relate to the content of your class. The page is some what cluttered and filled with advertising, but is still useful. I could use this in the classroom for my students to memorize the capitals of each state. If we had free time during the day, I would probably post this website on the chalkboard and have the students who have completed there regular work use this site. However, this is not a site that I would use as part of my lesson plans (other than extra time).

I was not very pleased with this site. It was relatively plain and had a lot of advertising. It seemed kind of confusing for elementary students with all the different links there were to choose from and if I were to use this as an assignment, I feel like I would have to lead this step by step rather than letting the students work on their own and experience the assignment for themselves. I do not think I would use this in my classroom because there are so many other sites out there that would be more useful and entertaining for my students. K.S.H.

I also find this site to be really plain compared to others that are available. It does provide excellent resources for learning. However, I do not think I would use this in my elementary classroom. I beleieve there could be more to offer on this website because it only provides a few links available for learning. It definitely needs more work on it's appearance and again more learning opportunities. E.L.S.

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