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Let George help you explain your lessons in a Template Design Set with 6 unique slide masters and 2 title masters in this PowerPoint file with instructions.

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What is Widgets Science?

On-line learning requires some type of modeling or simulation to offer the hands-on experience so important to learning science. Webquests offer this type of learning when video clips and flash or java script, for example, are used to program animated events on a website. But what if you, like me, cannot program these events? Using Widgets is one answer. Widgets Science is what I call the activities in which students use widgets to gather experimental data.

Teaching Science with Widgets^©

I have developed a form for writing lessons and experiment worksheets in Word^® and this form template is available for Preview and for Free Download. Please note--the download version contains actual input areas so that you can easily complete this template with your own information. The student pages contain input areas so that students can complete the exercise on a classroom computer. The preview form is not an on-line interactive version and does not contain the form input areas found on the download version.

But that's not all. I have also developed an actual experiment using the Eldon Dice widget and the Eldon Coin Flip widget for purchase. This lab has all of the sections seen in the preview and free download of the template--the student worksheet pages, the student experiment instructions, the teacher discussion pages, and links to the widgets website. (It even has page breaks so you can print out the sections by page.) I plan to write more labs using widgets and will offer them for sell as they are developed. I call this lab series Teaching Science with Widgets (Copyright 2006. All rights reserved.). Want to buy it now? Go to Shopping Cart.

You Can Get Widgets for Yourself.

Widgets are available at http://widgets.yahoo.com. Widgets were originally available from http://www.konfabulator.com. Yahoo recently obtained them. On the Yahoo site are 100's of widgets for free download, a Widgets Engine--the driver--for download, a link to a widgets construction wizard, instructions, and information. One widget connects to a solar telescope/NASA images files. Of the hundreds of widgets available, there are widget toys and widget news RSS feeders; a slide show to connect to your photos file, a to-do list, and a battery indicator for your laptop; just to name a few.

Get a Widget Lesson Designed for Grades 7-12.

The widget lesson template form that is available to preview and download for free, was written for middle and high school science classes. An actual lesson for a biology class, Teaching Science with Widgets: Dice and Coins, is now available. Go to list of all Widgets Science lessons now available.

In the lesson for purchase, ...Dice and Coins, there are suggestions for using the widgets for other hands-on activities and teaching objectives; but this activity was written with a genetics lesson at the high school biology level in mind, although it would work well as a lesson in probability or statistics in a math class.

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Add the Activity Suggestions to the Examples Database

The suggestions for other uses of the activity would fit nicely into the Examples in Science^© database. You can preview this product and purchase it here. There is even a space in the Examples database where you can paste the link and suggestions into the different records for different topics. Read more info about this database in our catalog. Go now. Read about how I have used it.

Add the Widgets Lesson to the Lesson Plan Database

You can link to the activities and the form template from the Lesson Plan Database which is also available for purchase. Again, information such as objectives can be pasted into the database. View an example of the input form in this database. Read more info about this database in our catalog. Go now. or shopping information page.

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