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Title: Discovery Kids: Make A Volcano URL:[] Comments: This is a wonderful website for elementary aged children to explore and learn about volcanoes. When first entering the website, there is a rotating world that has plate boundaries and active volcanoes represented by triangles. On the side there is a menu that leads to the different types of volcanoes and also leads to a diagram of the inside of a volcano. This would be a good website for a teacher to use to introduce students to learning about volcanoes. The information displayed on this website is very easy to follow and worded in a way that elementary aged children could understand. This website is not loaded with information so it would spark the students interest in learning more. A limitation of this website is that it does not go into detail about volcanoes. The website only gives an overview about volcanoes and for this reason I believe this website would be best used as an introduction to this topic.

This site supports teaching and learning by providing just enough information for the elementary group of children to learn. I think that it was a very good idea to allow people to customize a volcano and then have an explanation of what kind of volcano those customizations would produce. Another thing that would help teach kids is the fact that the website shows what is going on inside a volcano. This is very useful because it is a way to realize how volcanoes erupt. A limitation of this website would be that it doesn’t go into very much depth about the volcanoes. It only shows a brief summary of what happens when volcanoes erupt. This website could be used in a classroom during a unit where kids learn about what variables create different volcanoes. It could also be used to show where the many hot spots around the world are located.
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Title: Tissues of Life URL: [] Comments: This is a fantastic website that could be used for a middle school elementary class. It is very interactive and would be a good website for visual learners. What I found interesting about this site was the magnified images of different cells throughout the human body. This website supports learning because as a teacher it would be hard to get all of these samples of cells into the classroom. Instead a teacher could use this website and have students explore the parts of the body and cells on their own. Another part of this website that I think would be helpful is the glossary. I could not find any limitations to this website because it was easy to use, colorful and interactive, and it was not distracting. All the information was legitimate because it all came from experts in the field of cells and tissues. All the information is easy to find and understand and the pictures are very clear and precise. The website also includes games and other interactive activities.

I to think this was a good website. I do no think it would be used in a middle school setting. I think the feel of the website was for younger students, but the content seem too complex for middle school students. From personal experience i did not learn about tissue like that till anatomy my senior year. It was easy to use and very fun, and overall i think it would be a good site for high school students.
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