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Learning, Communication, and 21st Century Skills: Students Speak Up
Learners brainstorm to come up with examples of things they do with computers and write them down for the class to observe. They then raise their hands to respond to each survey question, tallying their answers on the board and engage in...
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Surfing Safely on the Internet
Students explained and demonstrated what the Internet is and the safety rules for using it. They navigate the Internet using search tools and the browser.
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Surfing for ABC's
Students explore how to use the Internet and how it can be a learning tool and a safe, informative place for them.
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Exploring the Internet for Information
Students identify and use the internet as a resource for information. They integrate the writing process and create a multimedia project using the information from an internet research. Projects can be created from Microsoft Word,...
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Computer Pictures
Students manipulate the mouse to draw a picture on a computer program such as Kid Works or ClarisWorks for Kids. Then, using the keyboard, the student type a word to label the picture and type his/her name.
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Picture the Future
Learners create a digital portfolio about their activities for several school years. Students compile pictures and copies of their best work onto flash drives. Learners combine the pictures and text each year to create a cumulative...
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The Nesting Habits of Folders
Students create an organized web of nested grade level folers. Within each grade level folder, they create a Language Arts/Social Studies folder and a Math/Science folder. All folders be color coded.
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The Car Chase Scene
Students research the Internet for information about purchasing a car. They complete a worksheet using the Federal Citizen Information Center's website in order to become proficient in research techniques needed to be informed consumers.
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PowerPoint Poems
Students identify how to play with poetry and create multi-media designs at the same time through PowerPoint. They select a poem of their own or a favorite published poem, and make it into a dancing, singing work of art as a PowerPoint...
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Poet for a Day
Fourth graders, while in the computer lab after reading the poem, "H is for Hoosier," create an acrostic poem about Indiana. They list words that are unique of Indiana and choose one of those words to create their acrostic poems to share...
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Poison Boxes
Students utilize the Poison Boxes activity on The Nature Park is used to practice the recognition of 2D shapes and their properties. They utilize a mathematics educational software program to gain practice.
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Computer: Keyboarding for Kids
Students discover keyboard positions by playing a game on a body-sized keyboard placed on the floor. They learn the key positions by associating them with words easy to remember such as "animals in the snow dig for food," for the ASDF keys.
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Path Animation
Students realize that an object moving along a path has a spatial relationship to its environment by using path animation and programming techniques. They explore how to recognize and trace animated path with their fingers on the...
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Tunnel Traps
Young scholars identify shapes that match specific shape descriptions involving a range of geometric terms and correct polygon names. They utilize a mathematics educational software program to gain practice.
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Phenomenal Weather-Related Statistics
Eighth graders research, collect and interpret data about weather statistics. They record that data on spreadsheets. they create Powerpoint presentations on their individual or group research.
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Fly Away With Averages
Students study mean, median, and mode. They construct paper airplanes and test them to see how far they fly. They measure the distance and then find the averages of their throws. They use spreadsheet software to record the data in a...
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Your Body: A Bacteria Incubator!
Young scholars demonstrate their comprehension of PREDICTING AND HYPOTHESIZING by... ¿¿¿ Predicting a logical outcome to a situation, using prior knowledge, experience and/or evidence. AND ¿¿¿ Explaining reasons for that...
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Computer Ethics
Students examine the issues of ethics and ethical behavior as it relates to information technology. As a class they read and discuss a handout, then complete a worksheet. In small groups they read different scenarios and identify them...
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Using Inspiration Software to Explore Characters In Stories
Students identify characters, their qualities, and examples of their qualities and use Inspiration to organize them in a clear and understandable format. After a lecture/demo, students use the program on the next story by themselves.
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Keyboarding - Fractured Fractions
Sixth graders use keyboarding skills to find the "fractional part" of a word.