1. Click on the Middle School tab at the top of the page and do a Keyword Search on Gettysburg. How many search results were generated? How many sites contain lesson plans? How many sites come from the area of Language Arts? How many secondary state standards relate to Gettysburg?
   




2. Click on the State Standards button at the top of the page and do a Keyword Search on right triangle. How many standards relate to right triangle at the middle school level? Focusing on the Academic Standard for Grades 6-8 and continuing with right triangles as the Web Resource, how many search results are displayed?
   




3. Create a Famous Person Search in netTrekker’s Middle School section for Rachel Carson. NetTrekker d.i. will display a timeline of events during Rachel Carson’s lifetime. Name a world figure who was alive when Ms. Carson was born and still living when she died. Name an invention, a famous novel written, and a war that took place during Ms. Carson’s lifetime.
   




4. Using the Current Events section, what is the name of the bi-weekly local newspaper serving Parker, Pennsylvania?
   




5. Click on Teacher Tools (High School) in the Features box. Click Technology in the Classroom. How many Technology Tools websites are reviewed in netTrekker? How many sites on Technology Integration Methods are linked?
   




6. Click on the High School tab and do a Subject Search by clicking on Biology under the Science subject area. Drill down to Animals and then Pets. Click on the gray “Dictionary” button next to the first web result you find for Guinea Pig Behavior. Find an unfamiliar word within the web page that opens ­ the word will be underlined as you hover over it. What is the unfamiliar word you clicked on? What is the definition according to Ultralingua?
   




7. From the High School home page do a Keyword Search for Ben Franklin. How many resources are available for a Readability level of 5? How many resources are available for a Readability level of 2? How many resources are available at all readability levels?
   




8. From the Elementary English Learners channel. Click on the Multicultural Pavilion and Acculturation to America. How many web resources are available for Citizenship? What are the Readability levels of the resources?
   

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