West's Projects

West Elementary Internet Projects

These are Internet projects and activities developed by our staff and students at Loogootee Elementary West. Visit our pages and see how we are integrating the Internet with our classroom curriculum!

100th Day Activities

At this site, you'll find sites that have something to do with 100, you can search for your own sites choosing from two search engines developed just for kids, and you can look at suggested activities for 100th Day Celebration!

Abraham Lincoln

Mrs. Payton's first grade class wrote a quiz about Abraham Lincoln. From this webpage, you can find the quiz, go on a treasure hunt, view pictures about pioneer life, and do other activities. This lesson won the grand prize on Microsoft's Encarta website.

Butterflies and Moths

This is a short hot list of sites to visit to learn more about moths and butterflies.

China

Our third grade computer club has been studying about China and they have created some interactive information about this ancient nation. Learn how to write to 12 in Chinese, visit the China slide show to learn information about this country, or take quizzes written by our club about China. 

Hatching Emus

Mrs. Strange's second grade class hatched emus in their classroom! You can take a quiz that their class wrote or view their picture gallery of their emus.

Hedgehog

Have you ever thought about having a hedgehog as a classroom pet? Take an interactive quiz, read stories about this classroom pet, and find out other interesting facts about hedgehogs on this activity.!

Monster Project

Our first grade class joined this collaborative project where we exchanged descriptions of monsters by e-mail. See our finished project!

Months of the Year

This is a first grader's class book on the Months of the Year! This class book was developed in conjunction with Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy. Visit their website for additional activities and books to read that correspond with the theme "Growing and Changing."

Oink, Oink, Oink

Visit these web activity pages to find lots of activities for our Houghton Mifflin's Invitations to Literacy "Three Little Pigs" third grade theme:

• Pigs
• Wolves
• Desert
• Sharks

Penguins Around the World

Find out about the different kinds of penguins that live around the world. This site has slide shows, clickable maps to find where penguins live, quizzes, treasure hunts for information, and colorful photos of penguins. Lesson plans and science related activties are also included.

Rock Hounds

Developed by students and staff at Loogootee, this web based activity teaches students the difference between sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks and how they were formed.

Something Fishy

This book review was developed with Houghton-Mifflin which offers suggestions on ocean activities for a "fishy theme!"

Solar System

Our second grade class created informational articles about our solar system. You can read their riddles, play word games, go on a treasure hunt, or take the solor system quiz that was written by this creative class!

Surfing for ABC's

This was a summer school project for Kindergarten-First Grade children (ages 5-7 years old). The kids were familiarized with a browser and learned simple searching techniques using Yahooligan's search engine. A lesson plan is included.

 

 What's New with HTML--Educational Web Design

This is an online tutorial that will help you add dynamic content to you educational website. It will help you make your site more interactive and user friendly.