UEN

I do believe that the UEN website will be very helpful to me to use in my future classroom. There are numerous tools that I can use to help my students be engaged in learning and the process. This is a very helpful resource to add to my arsenal of teaching tools. I am going to teach physical education and as everyone knows that is not really everyone's favorite subject. I am only liked by the 10 to 15 percent of kids who are naturally active and coordinated, the rest just want out as fast as they can. If I can use these tools that I have found on UEN to engage the students and help them gain an appreciation or heaven forbid actually like physical activity then I will have succeeded as a teacher.

There are so many different resources included under the UEN umbrella that can be utilized in the classroom. The pioneer library is just one of the many resources that can be used. It offers many different catagories from k-12 to the university level. There are so many different resources like the emedia tool that has hundreds of images and videos to use in your classroom. The soundzabound tool is a wonderful tool that allows teachers to download from a huge library of songs to use in the classroom. The pioneer library also has links to many of Utah's newspapers and hundreds of others.

The interactives tool is awesome! It is a great way to engage students and get them to participate in physical education. There are some really good games that can teach them healthy habits and promote a healthy lifestyle. There aren't too many in my content area but I am confident that as UEN grows they will expand to physical education.

The lesson plans section is so great. To have all of that information available to us at our fingertips already compiled is amazing. It's wonderful to be allowed to view others creative work and bring some of their ideas into your classroom and mix it in with your curriculum. The core curriculum section is also so helpful.