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PC Technician

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Technology is growing more and more each year. A computer technician explains what he does at a school. This is a great opportunity to show students what they can do with their passion for computers.
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Global PC and Google Earth

For Students 6th - 11th Standards
Learners take notes on the physical geography of an assigned country, as well as its type of economy, major cities, and the student's own first impressions of the country, with this graphic organizer.
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Animated Snowman

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students produce a web page with an animated snowman using DHTML and JavaScript. The finished project must work correctly in Netscape 4.7 and Internet Explorer 5.0 on both Mac and PC.
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Using e-mail to Communicate with Students in an Inner City; Celebrating Diversity through a Penpal Program

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students communicate with students at another school through e-mail to help them become better acquainted with using a PC and e-mail. In the second lesson plan, the same type of method is used to explore diversity among communities.
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Wave Superposition: Interactive On-line Mac and PC

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students study definitions of wavelength, wave speed, wave amplitude, and wave period using an interactive JAVA environment. Distance and time are given so speed=wavelength/period can be verified or deduced by students. Waves reflection...
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Contour Basics: JAVA Mac/PC

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore how to draw contour lines from limited data and extend this knowledge to real data sets. They participate in many opportunities from students to assess their own progress and the exercise is completely online.
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Crash Course

The Personal Computer Revolution: Crash Course Computer Science #25

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Mac or PC? An informative video in the Crash Course Computer Science series describes the history of the personal computer, beginning with the Altair 8800. It compares the business models of Apple (closed architecture) and IBM (open...
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Connecting to the Internet Wirelessly

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
To learn how to connect your computer to wireless Internet, watch this step-by-step video. A narrator demonstrates each step on his PC.
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Analogy: Reasoning by Comparison

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
"Life is like a box of chocolates. . ." "Barack is a Mac, Hillary is a PC." Literal and figurative analogies are featured in a presentation that models how to use analogies to bolster arguments.
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Fishing Game: Stella PC and Mac

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students play The Fishing Game as a manager in the national fish and wildlife service charged with the responsibility of making policy suggestions regarding the management of a fishery surrounding national borders.
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Daisyworld: Stella Mac or PC

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students investigate Daisyworld, a very simple planet that has only two species of life on its surface - white and black daisies, and bare ground. They construct a Stella model of Daisyworld and perform guided experiments to explore the...
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Wind Surge: Interactive On-line Mac and PC

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students examine the influence of the end wall. They find a basin size and wind speed such that a given wall height is overtopped. Then, increase the wall elevation until overtopping stops. Students explain the difference in results.
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Waves Through Earth: Interactive Online Mac and PC

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a JAVA activity to vary the seismic P and S wave velocity through each of four concentric regions of Earth. They match "data" for travel times vs. angular distance around Earth's surface from the source to...
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Sun Path: Interactive On-line Mac or PC

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use SunPath in the yearly mode to investigate seasonal changes in sunrise, sunset, length of day and sun altitude at their own latitude. Sun Path JAVA applet uses equations for a spherical Earth to calculate the sunrise and...
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Write Away

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the effect of computers and other word processing programs have had on traditional forms of communication and expression after reading and discussing the article "Where the Pen is Mightier Than the PC" from The New York...
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PC Activities - Cut - Copy - Paste

For Students Higher Ed
In this technology worksheet, students read the directions for practicing the skills of moving text and copying it to another form of document.
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Techno PC: Computer Lessons for Elementary Students

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils explore computer science by participating in mini activities. In this graphic design lesson, identify the different components on a personal computer and define their purpose. Students utilize Microsoft Paint to create a digital...
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Window-Eyes More About the Global Menu: Menu Verbosity Settings

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners practice accessing the Window-Eyes control panel and defining what items in the dialog box.
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Sum of Products and Product of Sums Expression

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this electrical circuit worksheet, students answer a series of 21 questions about sum of product and product of sum, and Boolean expression for a logic circuit. They design and build a circuit board using  PC-board relays to...
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Pizza Muffins & Podcasting

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate life skills by participating in a voice recording activity. For this baking lesson, students identify the ingredients needed to create pizza menu items and the steps which should be taken to bake them. Students...
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Salmon Smolt: Stella PC and Mac

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the Stella Smolts Migration Model and its use in previous simulation models to help managers deal with the many factors contributing smolts decline. They participate in an interactive exercise in the role of fishery...
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Daisyworld: Interactive On-line PC and Mac

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students use a JAVA interface to explore the Daisy World model to illustrate a mechanism through which - according to the Gaian hypothesis - biota might optimize their abiotic environment by means of negative feedback.
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

What’s In Your Neighborhood?

For Teachers K - 12th
Chart your way to an understanding of nanoscale. Using a Google map, learners estimate a radius around their location of 1,000 and 1,000,000 meters. Predicting what 1,000,000,000 meters would look like takes them off the charts!...
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Journey to Tibet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create "Culturegrams" from the library and travel guides provided during class. They use the library and PC lab during study hall to work on a PowerPoint presentation and show the PowerPoint to the class to describe your trip.

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