It's all about the special effects! With the technical resource, pupils discover how to create effective multimedia presentations. Using their new skills, they create a five-slide presentation based on a list of approved topics. 

Young scientists explore the animal kingdom from the safety of the classroom with this short research project. After first choosing an animal, children use the Internet to discover where it lives, what it eats, and how it...

Whether you are an experienced computer user or a newcomer to technology, a packet full of computer vocabulary, tips, and guided practice is sure to enhance your technological knowledge. Learners can hone their word processing skills and...

Eighth graders participate in a computer based Family Search Unit. They use multimedia resources to research their country of origin, conduct interviews, and use software to produce narratives, databases, spreadsheets and graphs in this...

Students explore HTML tags and how they are used in creating web pages. They use a simple editor to create their own web page and save their work on their computers.

Using Microsoft Word and the blank "Jack and Jill" templates provided, class members find picture files of themselves and create a written photo ID document to be printed and lamented for the classroom. The instructional activity is...

Here is an app version of a powerful tool that allows you and your students to have one place where you can capture, organize, and share items in multiple media formats.  The different uses for this app are as varied as your ideas...

Students research the dress of the 40's/50's in Harlem and create a multimedia presentation of at least 15 slides. They present a Fashion Show for the class.

Students research in small groups to locate information on the outcomes and observations made during the Lewis and Clark expedition. For this westerns expansion lesson, students role play their findings as though they were reporting to...

Students research their family's heritage. They follow a guide, document their family's history and put it together in report form.

Students create digital portfolios. In this careers lesson, students conduct research and use digital tools so that they can plan and present multimedia presentations that feature their best work, their extracurricular activities, and...

Teach the class how to put together a PowerPoint presentation using their autobiography as the content. First, have them use the outline given to put together their autobiography in storyboard fashion. Now, they have their content ready...

Young scholars use various hardware and software tools to create and edit files which can be used in a presentation. They use a search engine to find and download an image. Students use computer tools to save the image. Once saved, the...

Second graders count by 2's to get to 100. In this counting lesson plan, 2nd graders use the program Kid Pix to create stamps two at a time until they get to 100.

Students recognize similarities and generalize patterns. In this math and technology lesson plan, students develop an understanding of number patterning by grouping stamps and counting by 10s.

Students are able define or describe what the Internet is and how it developed. They are able to Describe an IP packet and what is meant by the phrase "packet switching network". Students are able to describe the World Wide Web. They are...

Students listen to a teacher-created story and practice using color words with a word processing program. This lesson has a video explanation and an AppleWorks example of a teacher-created story.

Students become familiar with the basic tags that are used to make web pages. They consider the factors that make a well-developed web site and web page and use the basic elements of HTML to code a simple text file.

Micro-Module provides instruction on searching documents in non-HTML formats. Find out about specilized search engines for alternate file formats. Also contains godd charts summarizing file extensions of alternate formats. Following the...

This site chronicles the history of International Business Machines including exhibits, documents, and multimedia.

This resource helps users figure out how to make track changes in Microsoft PowerPoint. (applies to PowerPoint 2013 and 2016)