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Technology for the Very Young by Helen Teague
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• In this session you will learn
• The best resources for integrating computer
  software and websites into an Early Childhood
  Curriculum.
• Internet Activities for Young Children
• The ages we will focus on are children 2-6.
• Remember.

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Young Children Prefer

• Sites that are
• Colorful
• Quick to Load
• Interactive
• Musical
• Pictorial

Also visit eboard.com an online site for
teachers to set up a class bulletin board no
HTML required
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For TOTS Remember

• T Talking Books and Characters
• O Offer activities with cause and effect
• T Totality of Learning Styles (visual,
• auditory, kinesthetic)

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Early Childhood SoftwareApple 11 and compatibles

• Animal Alphabet and Other Things (McGraw - Hill
  Media)
• Color Me (Mindscape Educational Software)
• Counting Critters (MECC)
• Easy Street (MindPlay)
• Explore-a-Story Series (D.C. Health Co.)

• Mask Parade (Queue, Inc.)
• Muppetville (Sunburst Communications, Inc.)
• Observation And Classification (Hartley
  Courseware, Inc.)
• Picture Chompers (MECC)

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Early Childhood Software For IBM and Compatibles

• Color Me (Mindscape Educational Software)
• Kids Stuff (Stone Assoc.)
• Mask Parade (Queue, Inc.)
• Math and Me (Davidson and Assoc.)

• Mixed-Up Mother Goose (Sierra on-line)
• Muppets On Stage (Sunburst Communications, Inc.)
• Number Farm (DLM)
• The Playroom (BroderbundSoftware)

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Early Childhood Software For Macintosh

• Apple Early Childhood Education Bundle
• The Backyard
• Baileys Book House
• Millies Math House
• A Silly, Noisy House
• Kid Pix
• Thinkin Things
• Easy Street
• McGee and Me

• KidsTime (Great Wave Software)
• Mighty Math Carnival Countdown (Edmark)
• The Playroom (BroderbundSoftware)
• Storybook Weaver

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Early Childhood Resources
www.computersforkids.com
http//www.teachingideas.co.uk/
www.edmark.com
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Internet Activities
Go to the Website http//www.enchantedlearning.c
om/Dictionary.html
Select the letter E at the top of the page.
Find a gray animal with a ph in its name. Draw
this animal on your paper. Select the letter S
at the top of the page. Find a small garden
friend with an ai in its name. Draw this animal
on your paper. Select the letter A at the top
of the page. Find a picture of something you
would see at the zoo. Draw this on your paper.
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Internet Activities

• Go to the website
• http//www.taylorrabbit.com/

Click on the picture of Taylor Rabbit, Select
read my story. Click on Lets start reading! to
begin the book. Draw a picture of where you think
Taylor Rabbit would eat for breakfast.
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Internet Activities

• Click on the following website
• http//www.randomhouse.com./seussville
• Click on More Fun!,
• then My Many Colored Days
• Select What Color Are Your Days?
• Read the poem about feeling like different
  colors.
• Tell your friend how the person who wrote the
• poem feels on yellow days and blue days

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Internet Activities

• Point your mouse to this website
• http//www.cochran.com/theodore/activities/
• Click on the
• Choose colors to add to the pictures of
• Theodore.

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