LA_shipwreck

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ The Purdue OWL is the premier website for finding all kinds of advice about writing.
 * Purdue Online Writing Lab**

http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=36 This site, developed by NCTE has a variety of plans for a variety of reading/writing assignments targeted at a variety of grade levels.
 * Read Write Think**

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ The grammar and punctuation on this site are a little higher level, but easily adaptable. The quizzes are good with explanations.
 * Grammar Site**

http://www.cite.auckland.ac.nz/ This site gives examples for citation styles.
 * Citation Sources**

http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/ http://writing.umn.edu/tww/assignments/disciplines/engineering_assignments.htm http://www.ecf.utoronto.ca/~writing/handbook.html Various sites that deal with engineering writing.
 * Engineering Writing**


 * Name:** [|Power Proofreading]
 * URL:** http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread
 * Who It's For:** Grades 2-8
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** Improve students' proofing skills and knowledge of grammar with this fun and easy-to-use site. After a short animated video introduces Power Proofreading, students click the folder for their grade level and select a passage to proof. Each passage's errors focus on a specific skill, so why not preview the passages before class, and pick out the ones you want your class to practice based on your current grammar unit? Then, students simply click to delete, add, or edit as needed to correct grammatical and spelling mistakes. Unlike sites that have students correct grammar in a sentence or by question and answer format, this is one of the few at which students work within a paragraph, a valuable skill for success in standardized testing. Kids need more practice? Try some of Education World's [|Every-Day Edits].


 * Name:** [|Find a Story…Map a Story…Tell a Story]
 * URL:** http://www.rebooting.ca/place/
 * Who It's For:** This project is appropriate for all grades. For the lower grades, it might be done as a collaborative project; for Grades 4 and up, an independent project.
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** Find a Story... Map a Story... Tell a Story invites you to choose a story that matters to you and, using an online mapping tool such as [|Google Maps], [|Community Walk], or [|Wayfaring], create a StoryMap that will place your stories within a geographical context. Using one of those digital mapping tools, locate a geographical map from your story location, and add images, audio, and text memories to the place markers found on the mapping tool. This project will help you recover lost stories and save and share them so other can enjoy and learn from them. Completed StoryMaps will be posted on a student work page on the Find a Story... Map a Story... Tell a Story Web site.


 * Name:** [|Google Docs for Educators]
 * URL:** http://www.google.com/educators/weeklyreader.html
 * Who It's For:** The Google Docs and Spreadsheets tool allows sharing among students at all grade levels, between students and teacher, student and parent…..
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** Google and Weekly Reader have teamed up to provide free tools and materials for educators to use to teach "digital buddy writing," in which two or more students work together from different computers to write and revise the same paper at the same time. The buddy writing lessons and activities utilize the sharing features of Google Docs and Spreadsheets, which enable teachers and students to determine who can access and edit documents. Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and helps fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.

(Nikole Kelty)
 * Name:** Titanic Teacher's Guide
 * URL:** http://www.titanicbranson.com/titanic_guide_arts.php
 * Who It's For:** Language Arts and Social Studies
 * What It Costs:** Free
 * Description:** Titanic is a fascinating historical event. This website takes the kids back in time and creates fun projects to help them realize what actually happened. You could have students create a Titanic safety brochure that incorporate the different levels of classes that were found aboard the ship and the different procedures for each class. The students can also incorporate a Titanic newspaper. The students could research what happened on the ship during its travels and right up to the sinking. They could write articles and make it into a non-fiction piece that truly describes what the life was like on the ship before and during the sinking. You could also give the student's a job that was found on the Titanic and have them research it and give a report on what they did during their short stay on the ship. There are many more activities, including poems, response journal entries, and the students could even learn morse code. This site is pretty cool.

This site is great for a cross-curriculum project! I loved all of the activities for the various content areas. The possibilities for language arts are endless. Students can try their hand at various genres ranging from non-fiction research pieces to creative pieces written from the perspective of individuals who were on the Titanic or family members of people on the Titanic. The creative pieces could include poetry, letters, journal/diary entries, etc. The whole project would culminate in the scavenger hunt at the end. I think most middle school students would really get into this project! (Shaila Luttrell--Pawnee)