Go Blogging with Social Studies Field Trips

摘要

For more than a decade, teachers have been developing classroom Web sites to post information for students and parents. To integrate the Internet into social studies learning, we have planned scavenger hunts and virtual field trips to teach basic Internet research. Today we can add blogs to our Internet connection to the elementary curriculum. With traditional Web sites, teachers share information with parents and document units of study as well as provide an avenue for student publishing. Blogs, unlike traditional Web sites, provide teachers and students with the capability to type directly into a Web page using the browser. With the click of a button, ideas, classroom news, and social studies content can be published on the Internet in the form of a blog.