Microsoft Encyclopedia Encarta
Companion Web Sites,
December 2002

GDIST Training Lab, Cairo, Egypt
Leslie Opp-Beckman,
leslieob@uoregon.edu

 

With this easy-to-use reference, you can access more than 38,000 up-to-date articles, plus photos and illustrations, hundreds of videos, animations, and audios. Features include:

 

Encyclopedia Teaching Tips and Resources

Encarta Schoolhouse Lesson Plans
http://encarta.msn.com/guide/newschoolhouse.asp

Microsoft Education
http://microsoft.com/education/?ID=LessonPlans

Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/
Columbia Education Center (CEC) has arranged with Microsoft to list some of their lesson plans with Encarta. They have many others besides.

AskEric Lesson Plans
http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/
Use the search tool at the bottom of the page with "encyclopedia" as the keyword; select all or some of the grade levels, as needed. At last count about 100 lesson plans were available that incorporate the use of encyclopedias in class projects.

Discovery Lesson Plans
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
Use the search tool at the top of the page with "encyclopedia" as the keyword. For example, "Cultures that Live on the Equator" http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/flightovertheequator/

 

Extended Activities and Resources

Create an Alphabet Book
http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Interdisciplinary/INT0012.html

Create a Class Encyclopedia
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/elit/el/structures_lp.htm

Bartleby, Free Online Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/

Encyclopedia.com, Free Online Encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Informationsphere, Free Online Encyclopedia
http://www.informationsphere.com/

iTools, Free Online Encyclopedia and Other Tools
http://www.itools.com/

 

 
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Last updated: 20 November 2002