Center for Technology and Teacher Education

The CTTE website provides information about new educational technology, as well as about the current research that their group is doing. The website also provides ideas and guidelines for all content areas (math, science, social studies, and English). While the links vary for each content area, in general, lesson plans, web links, and other resources are provided. The application that I found the most useful was the science content area activities that integrate technology, which was divided into chemistry, biology, earth science, physical science, and physics. Each category has multiple lesson plan ideas that may be downloaded. One of the chemistry lessons that I really liked had the students use an Excel spreadsheet to graph each element's position in the periodic table and its melting and boiling points. By using a graph students are given a good visual of periodic table trends for the different phases of matter, a concept that may be difficult to understand without a graph.