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Desktop Pub. - Quark XPress 3: Certificate

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In this lesson, the students will create a certificate of completion with borders, text, check boxes, and vector-based medallion. There is software that is necessary for the lesson to be conducted successfully.
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Use of Digital Cameras

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become familiar with the operation of the school digital camera. They insert photographs into WORD procession software and use text boxes and arrows to create labels.
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Desktop Pub. - Quark XPress 4: Video Box

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
This lesson is the fourth in a series of six that teaches basic Desktop Publishing skills with QuarkXPress. Other DTP software can also be used. In this lesson, pupils will lay out an over-sized document (tabloid size) and irregularly...
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Alice

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students work with computers and use the Alice software.  For this computer lesson students learn how to use the Alice program. 
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Power Point Presentation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use multimedia to create presentations. The national technology standards are used to have a foundation for technology usage. The users of this lesson should be technology literate before attempting the preparation.
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DATABASE INTRODUCTION AND BASIC APPLICATIONS USING STUDENT FAMILY TREES

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gather information about family, parents, and grandparents using the database form. They place their personal information into the database and save the information to compile class in formation. They develop skills in database...
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Peekikng At Public Sculpture

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use the internet to investigate public examples of sculpture. They reflect upon the possibility of being a reference of lifestyles that can exist in a society. A variety of media sources serve as inspiration for the lesson.
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About The Author Lesson 4

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a instructional activity that continues the creation of a specialized Microsoft Word document. They practice creating art using Wordart and inserting images into the document with a paragraph attached. One of the...
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Word Meaning Using Prefixes

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use structural analysis to identify root words with prefixes such as dis, sub, re, and pre.
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Talk the Talk

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interactively learn multimedia terminology while using the Alice Programming.  In this multimedia lesson students become the director of a movie or video game. 
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Making a Spreadsheet

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore spreadsheet software.  In this personal finance and computer technology lesson, students develop a vacation spreadsheet on the computer.  Students represent hotel, food, transportation, and entertainment costs...
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Space Age Technology Comes to Earth

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore jobs related to agriculture. In this technology/agriculture lesson, students recognize the importance of natural resources and agriculture on the use of Range Rambler software. Students complete an experiment and a...
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Multi Media "self" Presentation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create a three-five minute presentation that visually illustrates major aspects of the their lives. Using Movie Works software as a base, they integrate video, photography, artwork, graphic elements, and sound to produce...
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Sound: Are All Sounds Loud?

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore physics by utilizing education software. In this sound properties instructional activity, 1st graders discuss the different sounds associated with different materials and perform an object dropping experiment...
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Communicable Disease

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils use Palms, or handheld computers, and the Cooties software to enact the transmission of communicable diseases. They discuss incubation and immunity and collect and interpret data and figure out who was the "carrier "of a "disease."
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4 Part Color Study in Painter Classic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the Wacom tablet to demonstrate observational drawings, design principles, and color schemes. Students create four different images of a common art or graphics tool based on four color schemes and a different effect.
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iChat Debate: Does Holden Caulfied Deserve Our Compassion?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers prepare for and hold a classroom debate via typed text on a literary topic. Two groups conduct an iChat debate using iChat AV software to document the debate as it happens. Pupils conduct a post-debate analysis of the...
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New Wave Aztec

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Young scholars create animation symbols on the computer based on The Aztec Empire work of Keith Haring. In this animation lesson plan, students use drawings and put them into the computer over a series of 8 weeks.
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Quit Smoking-Together We Can Do It!

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students explore how tobacco threatens the health of smokers and non-smokers. They research smoking and second hand smoke using the Internet. Students create a Quit Smoking brochure. They present a computer slide show to describe how...
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The Alphabet

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover the letters of the alphabet by participating in a game.  In this phonics lesson, students create books about themselves using their favorite toys and pets.  Students utilize a computer program called Mouse In...
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There Was An Old Lady...

For Teachers 1st
First graders read "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" and use Kid Pix to identify characters from the story. In this character identification lesson plan, 1st graders first hear several versions of the classic tale, and then...
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PowerPoint Homophones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together to develop a PowerPoint presentation using pictures to show the differences between words. They practice using the software and computers. They show their presentation to the class.
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Wagon Train

For Teachers 3rd - Higher Ed
Students use educational software to examine the hardships and problem solving skills needed by the pioneers as they endured frontier life. They work as teams while using the game simulation. They work a number of project while not on...
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Using Technology to Design Animal Habitats

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study the relationship between an animal and where it lives.  In this habitats lesson students research to obtain data and create a professional report.