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Welcome to Babel - where educator's come together. Poke around, browse some lesson plans, create a web quest, and learn something. Just remember... if we've helped you, it's polite to help someone else in return!
Web Quests are a great way to meld student-directed learning with technology. Send the kids off to a website, give them a task, and watch their brains work! The only problem is that you need to create the website. If you're not tech savvy, that can be asking a lot.
With our web quest creator, you can fill in the blanks and have a web quest up and running in a few minutes. The system is simple and intuitive enough for the novice, but still flexible enough to satisfy the more savvy. Best of all, it's free!
You can also browse through the database of already completed Web Quests. Every web quest that we host is published for other teachers - like you - to peruse and use. You might find something useful, or you might find something to spark an idea for a web quest of your own.
A core feature of Babel is the Lesson Plan database. All of the lesson plans have been created and shared by teachers - so you can be sure they are useful.
You can browse through all of the lesson plans, or use the search features to narrow it down to a specific grade level or subject area. You can also log in and share your own lesson plans - our database would be pretty empty without generous teachers like you! If you've got a great lesson plan or assignment in your portfolio, we'd love to see it.
A character wheel is a specific type of graphic organizer, generally used in literature classes. The student fills in a “wheel” shaped organizer – putting the character's name in the center and that some of that character's traits around the outside of the wheel.
Check out the full article on character wheels for sample handouts.
If you're like me, you'll have an opportunity to use at least half a dozen computers in a day. If all your documents are at home on your desktop, you're outta luck. If you've got a flash drive, though, you can carry everything with you. This tutorial will show you how to connect a flash drive, put files on the flash drive, and disconnect it safely.
Wouldn't it be great if you could help end world hunger by just spending a little time on the internet?
Well, you can - at Free Rice.
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