Computer Skills Teacher Resources

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Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cpu, Memory, Input & Output

For Students 9th - 10th
Smart fabric designer Madison Maxey and founder and maker Danielle Applestone explain the different components that allow computers to input, store, process, and output information.
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Oregon Occup. Safety and Health Div.: Computer Ergonomics for Elementary School

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about ergonomics and how it affects computer users. "Workstation Setup" has suggestions for teachers and students to think about as they work at computers.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Circuits & Logic

For Students 9th - 10th
Adafruit founder Limor Fried and virtual reality designer Nat Brown show how simple logical circuits underly everything your computer does.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Listing of Digital Artists

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtCyclopedia's list of digital artists from the formation of the media to the present day. There are links to the digital artists' bio and works.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Debugging

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides a lengthy definition of the term, "debugging," including hyperlinked terms, links, and references.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hardware and Software

For Students 9th - 10th
Engineering manager Erica Gomez, program manager Jerome Holman, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates explain how a computer's hardware and software work together.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Html Validation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to validate your webpages with the W3C validator service.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard. Children are encouraged to use their index or pointer fingers to match letters on the screen to their keyboards.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Make a Pizza

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Kids click and drag the different toppings to make a pizza! Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Fun for children of all ages.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Make a Pumpkin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click and drag the different shapes to make a pumpkin. Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students may also create faces depicting different emotions. Have fun with this...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Computational Number Theory: Running Time

For Students 5th - 8th
What is a computer? How should we define the time needed to execute an algorithm?
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Publishing Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will experience different types of publishing in order to strengthen their motivation and cultivate pride in their work. After utilizing the writing process, students will type out their writing on a computer....
Lesson Plan
Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Lesson: Sending Email: K 2 Grade

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners explore how they can use email to communicate with real people within their schools, families, and communities. Requires free membership.
Activity
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Manejo Del Raton

For Students Pre-K - 1st
These are simple games to introduce preschool children to use the mouse. There are many activities that match each of the mouse functions such as paths and trails, coloring, puzzles or creating faces.
Instructional Video
AsapSCIENCE

Asap Science: Can Video Games Make You Smarter?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out if video games can be good for you, and if they can they make you smarter. [4:13]
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Other

Miguel Guhlin: Around the Corner

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Mr. Guhlin is director of Instructional Technology Services for the San Antonio ISD, a doctoral student at the University of Texas San Antonio, a prolific writer and speaker, and producer of the blog Around the Corner. For high end users...
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Other

Word Processing Activity: Fbla Flyer 1

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides a student activity to allow learners the opportunity to develop and practice computer skills in a word processing program. Students are given instructions to use the computer to create a flyer.
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Other

Word Processing Activity: Rsi Checklist

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This personal site provides a student activity that allows learners the opportunity to practice computer skills in creating a bulleted list. The activity also involves student's in completing research on repetitive stress injury to...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Creating a Newletter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students enrolled in computer applications, computer literacy, or desktop publishing classes learn the basics of creating a newsletter.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:borders American Id, Activity 2: The Internet's Impact on Politic

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate ways that people use the Internet to achieve political goals. Consider whether online computer use is a positive or negative influence on civic participation.
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Other

Windows Basics: Start Up

For Students 9th - 10th
A step-by-step explanation of how to turn on a computer and what happens during startup. Very basic information ideally suited for new computer users.
Handout
Yale University

Yale University: Pc Lube and Tune

For Students 9th - 10th
The PCLT objective is to supply usable introductions, tutorials, and education on technical subjects to the large audience of computer users. These are articles that take technical topics and make them understandable for the beginner.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Take a Trip: A Journey Through Familiar Places

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using the computer mouse, children carefully move a car through a map of a town while trying to avoid going off of the path. They pass different landmarks and are introduced to them one at a time. The activity provides good hand-eye...
Instructional Video
How Stuff Works

How Stuff Works: Computer Tour

For Students 9th - 10th
A video [3:24] from HowStuffWorks that shows you the inside of a computer and explains how these parts work together.

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