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Tessellations in Excel
Students complete an Excel project on tessellations. In this technology and math lesson, students discuss tessellations and their occurrences in nature. Students use the Excel computer program to create tessellations.
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Know Your Computer Hardware #103
Students discover the different terms and parts of a computer's body. In this computer basics lesson, students become familiar with the parts of the computer, starting in kindergarten and increasing their knowledge through...
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Microsoft Word~About the Author
Fourth graders investigate how to create a document named "About The Author". The teacher uses a LCD projector to guide the instruction and provide examples for the class. They also include graphics in the document and practice accessing...
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What's Wrong With This Computer?
Students, while in the computer lab, view a PowerPoint Presentation that addresses routine hardware and software problems that may occur with everyday usage of a computer. They identify and solve routine problems by checking connections...
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Bimaadagaako Adventure
Students use an interactive website to complete a wilderness trail adventure where they learn about Native cultures, voyagers, and the Canadian fur trade. In this interactive history lesson, students visit the wilderness classroom...
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Adventures in Alice
Learners complete a computer program in which they see how the programming language works for creating a virtual world. In this technology lesson students produce their own interactive video.
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Online Search Techniques: 6 Keys to Success
Learners examine Boolean operators, truncation, exact phrase searching to retrieve information from search engines. They discover how using limits enhances their searches.
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Creating Your First HTML Document
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.
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Smart Keyword Searching
Students explore various methods for completing effective keyword searches on the Internet. Through guided practice students complete various keyword searches. They independently complete a worksheet designed to aid in their keyword...
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Artful Technology
Students read the article 'Fading Indian Rock Art Saved, at least in Database' and discuss its contents. After viewing examples of works from a variety of periods and places, students choose a time and place on which to conduct research.
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Keyboard Skills
Young scholars are exposed to the basics of keyboarding. They use the keys for each hand without moving to the opposite sides of the keyboard. They also identify the enter/return key, the shift key, and the space bar. They recognize...
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Being Friendly
For this technology worksheet, learners practice writing e-mails that are focused upon using friendly language in the context of communication with good friends.
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Have I Been Hacked?
Young scholars investigate how effective SNEAK strategies are in detecting hackers. In this technology lesson, students explain the ethical issues about hacking. They graph and analyze their experimental results.
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7 Internal Messages
In this technology worksheet, students compose e-mails that are meant to be shared on a closed system or network. The directions for each is listed.
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Negotiating A Project
In this technology worksheet, students write two e-mails for the purpose of negotiating with a freelancer or small company to complete a job.
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Telecommunication Terms Part 2
In this technology worksheet, learners look for the terms that are related to the subject of telecommunications. They make cognitive connections to memorize the new terms.
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Design and Construct a Road Sign Support
Students use simple materials to design, build, and test a model of a free-standing structure used to support overhead road signs.
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Boolean Operators
Students practice using Boolean operators "AND", "OR" and "NOT" in online searching to either narrow or expand the results.
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PowerPoint Presentations
Students create a PowerPoint presentation. In this PowerPoint lesson, students create a storyboard about themselves. They use this storyboard to turn into a presentation with seven slides.
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Bridge Design
Students use "Interactive Physics Program" to develop a bridge similar to their physical model. They may choose to redesign their bridges completely. They design a simulation that test the amount of stress their bridge can withstand.
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Photographic Composites
Learners practice photo manipulation and combination in order to create new images. Using composite photos, students mix them together to produce new photographs. They conceal stitch lines to create realistic forgeries of composite images..
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A Stroll Down Memory Lane
Students examine the functionality of different types of computer memory (RAM) as a springboard to researching the definitions, uses and functions of different common computer terms. The class creates a computer terminology guide.
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Cybercrooks lure citizens into international crime
Students fill in a graphic organizer about suspicious websites and why they should stay away from them. In this website lesson plan, students read about crime on the Internet, and how these cybercrooks steal identities. Students fill in...
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Relating Technology Then and Now Utilizing Sketches of Pitt County
Fourth graders examine the effect of technology on the citizens of North Carolina. Using the Internet, they complete their own research and use a word processing software to share it with their classmates. They use excerpts from "...