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The Busy Brain
Learners explore biology by completing a human body worksheet. In this human brain lesson, students identify the different anatomy within the brain and the functions those pieces form. Learners read an article about signals in the brain...
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Reaction Time 2: Zap!
Students explore critical thinking by conducting a reaction time experiment. In this human brain lesson, students utilize a timed Internet worksheet activity to research how fast their brain works when answering questions. Students share...
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The Hijacked Brain
Pupils define drug addiction by identifying these four key features. They identify risk factors and protective factors in their own lives related to drug abuse and addiction by filling out a self assessment. Students use the Web to...
K12 Reader
Using Prior Knowledge
Sometimes it's hard to relate to a new text. Teach kids to use their prior knowledge when reading something new with a comprehension exercise. A short passage tells them how to think of their brains like filing systems, and provides five...
Dickinson College
Test Your Best Jeopardy
Make test-taking fun with a Jeopardy game that reviews the skills and stretegies needed to have a successful experience. Categories include test readiness, brain blockers, test strategies, tests pitfalls, and anxiety reducers. Learners...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment, Part II: Research Task: Comparing and Contrasting Texts
When it comes to comparing texts, it's apples to oranges. As part two of the mid-unit assessment, learners compare and contrast two texts about the Internet and brain health. While reading, scholars use a Venn diagram to compare two...
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment: On-Demand Note-taking and Text-Dependent Questions
Flex those brain muscles! Scholars take a mid-unit assessment, conducting research to take notes about how a particular invention helped meet society's needs. To complete the test, they work on draft sketches for their graphic novelettes.
EngageNY
Finding Relevant Information and Asking Research Questions: The Benefits of Video Games
Video games may not be so bad after all. As scholars read the text "The Many Benefits, for Kids, of Playing Video Games," they summarize the gist in their researchers' notebooks. Next, pupils draft supporting research questions based on...
Health Smart Virginia
Be Smart with Smartphones (and Screens)
Would you rather have a broken phone or a broken bone? This very engaging question launches a discussion about the smart use of smartphones and screens. Young scholars watch a series of videos, complete worksheets, and engage in...
Curated OER
The Android Factory
Students explore the idea that primitive virtual 3D objects can be reshaped to infinitely original combinations using additive and subtractive methods. They create 3-D objects with a computer which necessitates a cooperation of...
EngageNY
Evaluating Sources, Continued: The ONLINE EDUCA Debate 2009 (Part 2 of 10)
Watching videos and playing online games can be educational, but too much screen time has its drawbacks. Pupils watch a video about the topic and write down the claim, reasons, and evidence in support of reduced screen time for children....
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Pin the Tail on the Computer
Students identify the basic components of the computer system. They watch a Brain Pop movie about computers and then draw a "vocabulary label" from a basket. The student is blindfolded and sticks the label on a picture of a computer....
Curated OER
Computers: Inside And Out-- Outer Hardware Labeling Worksheet
In this technology worksheet, students examine the parts of a computer by studying the 9 pictures. Students use the word bank to match the name of the computer part to the picture.
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Computers Organizing Files Worksheet
Help young users organize their computer files with a practice worksheet. As they examine the listed document names, learners match them with the appropriate computer file.
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The Windows Desktop Vocabulary Worksheet
In this computers instructional activity, students find the vocabulary words that match each function that is listed as part of using the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Are You A Good Netizen?
For this testing netiquette worksheet, students determine if they are good internet citizens, or netizens, by answering yes and no questions. Students answer fifteen questions.
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Computers, Input or Output
In this computers worksheet, high schoolers examine the parts of a computer and differentiate between the devices that provide input or output.
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Computers Vocabulary Worksheet
In this computers worksheet, students look for the meanings of the listed vocabulary words for the ten problems. The words should be used in the correct context.
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Operating Systems of Computers
In this computer operating systems worksheet, students choose from the ten words in the word box to fill in the blanks of each sentence.
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Computers: Inside & Out- The Mac Desktop Labeling Worksheet
In this computer education instructional activity, students label the diagram by placing the name of the desktop feature on the 8 blank lines at the bottom of the page. They use words from a word bank to the right of the diagram.
Curated OER
Computers: The Mac Desktop
In this computer related worksheet, students fill in the blank of each sentence with a word from the word bank dealing with Mac desktop computers.
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Knowing Your Computer
In this computers worksheet, students examine the eight parts of a computer and ask for adult help to define the functions of each piece of hardware.
K12 Reader
Self Reflection
Instill the positive study habit of reflecting on learning by reading this passage with your class. The passage describes how reflection can be a powerful learning tool, and how learners can start reflecting. After reading, class members...
TED-Ed
What is the World Wide Web?
Did you know that the World Wide Web and the Internet are not the same thing? Did you know that Tim Berners-Lee is considered the father of the Web? Networks, web servers, web hosts, website addresses, domain names, web languages,...