Students learn the biography of Bill Gates including his rise to richness through Microsoft and his ability to face his adversaries in turbulent legal disputes.

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5th - 12th

Students utilize Paint Shop Pro software to add effects to their digital pictures using superimposed grids and the Selection Tool. They create and manipulate graphics and generate digitally produced images.

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8th - 11th

Students 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 unit.

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8th

Students explore installing, previewing and cataloging software. They are given software to preview and install. They complete a Software Review paper describing the program for the classroom library and create a PowerPoint slide on the product.

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6th - 12th

Students read a letter that Bill Gates wrote to the editor of HomeBrew Magazine. They explore the question of whether software should be free or proprietary. Individually, they write a letter to Bill Gates, responding to his arguments and supporting their point of view.

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4th - 8th