“HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. Founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998, the site is now an online resource for millions of people of all ages.”
www.howstuffworks.com is a great interactive web site for teachers, students and parents to use to learn HowStuffWorks. In this web site you can learn how anything works like a toaster oven, volcano, car, cell phone, global warming and more. This web site is a great teaching tool and learning tool that can be used by students for projects or for other assignments. There are different categories that you can choose from like science, animals, electronics, history, etc. There are a mass of possibilities of what they can learn about on this site.
I use this web site from time to time and found it very helpful to use as a research tool for my projects. So if a child is having trouble with their project you can turn them to this website.
In a classroom, if you have a projector in your class you can display it for all the students to see. You can navigate through the site to show the students how to use it, and also choose something new for the students to learn. You can also choose a subject based on what is being taught in the class at that moment like life science, history, animals etc.
I hope you guys enjoy this web site.
This is a fun resource for students and teachers alike. I think this would be a great starting point or follow up for many assignments. Children are so curious about topics that we as teachers cannot always answer so this would be a useful tool to help answer some of those questions.
ReplyDeleteThis website looks like something that can be easily used in the classroom. I like the fact that students can easily access this, and that it can give them a plethora of information. I agree with what Keegan said, it can definitely be used to help students when we don't know thee answer to their question. I think this is the most important part because it shows students how to research and also proves that teachers do not know everything.
ReplyDeletethis is great! children learn best by experiencing things for themselves so by allowing them to experiment and figure out how things that interest them work will ensure that the knowledge sticks with them!
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