Microsoft.com/Education

As a service to teachers and students microsoft.com offers a plethora of lesson plans and resources for students to use. The benefit of these lesson plans being created by Microsoft is that each of the lesson plans involves using technology to various extents.

Many of lessons incorporate Microsoft software in ways that I would have never imagined; for example Microsoft has a lesson plan entitled Making and Reading Maps in the 21st century. This lesson uses Bing Maps, which is Microsoft's version of Google Maps, to help students learn more about the digital maps of today's society. The lesson plan is designed to help show students the benefits of using digital maps and how to search them and find what they are looking for. After an introduction to digital maps, the students are allowed to create their own maps to help them understand the difficulties a mapmaker has to work through while selecting what to include or not include in a map.

Microsoft has lesson plans listed for every subject including: Math, Social Studies, Geography, Language Arts, Digital Media, Science, Music, and Physical Education. As I mentioned in the first paragraph the great part about these lesson plans is that everyone of them incorporates technology in some form into the lesson; and the incorporation of this technology is actually worthwhile and with a purpose. I feel that this website is a great resource for when a teacher desires to incorporate more technology into the classroom.

http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx