Meghan+Dolce

__**Top 10 Technology Tips/Sources:**__ [] [|www.MyPyramid.gov] [] [|www.Lessonplanspages.com] [|www.moneyinstructor.com/] 10) Opening Hooks for Lesson Plans: This website offers a variety of different opening hooks that can be used in your lesson plans. The website is free and easy to access but it doesn't offer many hooks for Family and Consumer Science. You can use some of the ideas they offer and transfer them into our content area. http://www.inspiration.com/LessonPlan/OpeningHooks
 * 1)** **Microsoft PowerPoint**: This tool allows you to create a slideshow which can house pictures, videos, facts, hyperlinks, etc. Using this in the classrom can allow visual as well as auditory learnres to learn best. This software allows you to actually see the notes and topics and explain them at the same time.
 * 2) Shutterfly:** This is a website that anyone can use. It is a place to store pictures from your camera, look at friend's pictures, create t-shirts, calendars, mugs, etc. with pictures on them. This is a good technology source to use in the classroom if you were using pictures because you can load them at home and then access them from the school computer.
 * 3)** **You Tube:** This is website that anyone can acces videos on. In the classroom you may want to incorporate videos into your lesson plans. This is a way to stay current with the students ever changing trends becuase you can connect what you're teaching to, for example, a music video.
 * 4)** **Google Search Engine:** This is my favorite search engine tool. This web browser helps you to find whatever you need by typing in a few key words. It gives you many ideas, differnt sites to visit, and alternative searches. This is a good tool when trying to find some creative approaches to not so much fun of topics in the curriculum.
 * 5)** **Educational Lesson Plans Website:** This has great ideas for lesson plans for all different topics. It helps you get fresh new activities that students will enojy. I love this website becuase it is easy to access and move around on.
 * 6) Nutritional Education Website:** This website is good for using the food guide pyramid, allowing students to track their own eating and exercise habits, and also provides all different types of facts and activities for teachers and students.
 * 7) Sewing Patterns:** This website provides all different types of sewin patterns that can be used in your classroom. This is good becuase it show you easy, medium, and hard difficuilties of patterns. The best part is that they are free!
 * 8) Lesson Plans Page**: This website provides you with a variety of different types of lesson plans. Some of them are simple and some of them are interesting and fun. It is free but you do have to register to access the lesson plans. This lesson can be very useful in your classroom.
 * 9) Financial Management Lessons:** This website is good for financial management lesson plans. It is free but you do have to register to use it. It is easy to access and move around on becuase you just have to type a key word or topic that you are looking for a lesson for and the top ten lessons will pop up. These lessons have a very creative approach but use primarily PowerPoint as a method to teach the students.