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Clothesline Sleuth
What fabrics are our clothes made of? Where do those fabrics from? Lead your pupils to discover the answers to these questions and more. Class members have a chance to play with various fabrics, invesitgating the materials and labels...
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Keyboarding - Keyboard Scavenger
Young scholars play motivational keyboarding games that reinforce finger families, proper technique, and accuracy. They can create personal word lists from various finger families.
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Computer (Keyboarding)
Have your class play a game in which they practice identifying various keys on a keyboard by moving around on a body-sized model keyboard. Kids love this game!
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Keyboarding Lesson - Period
Pupils engage in a basic lesson in elementary computer keyboarding and using the period key. The drills can be done together as a class, following your oral instructions, or individually. Accuracy, not speed, is the main goal for beginners.
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Keyboarding Lesson - R C
Learners engage in a basic lesson in elementary computer keyboarding. They review the home row and the location of letters. Also, they practice conditioning and speed.
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A Clue For Keyboarding
Clever clues provide an entertaining way to help learners memorize the location of each letter and symbol on a keyboard. No computers, keyboards, or charts are needed, yet this game reinforces keyboarding skills. Your class will beg to...
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Assignment #10: Internet Scavenger Hunt
Test your learners' Internet research skills with this scavenger hunt. Of the twenty questions provided, scholars research ten and provide the answer, the URL, the search engine, and the keywords they used. While some of the questions...
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The Unofficial Guide to Middle School
Sixth graders use Inspiration, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, digital camera, scanners, and video camera
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Doodle Splash
Students navigate Doodle Splash to create a painting. In this doodle splash lesson, students explain their splash painting relationship to a piece of literature.
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Social Change
Young scholars study a social issue involving gorillas, and work in groups to develop strategies to increase awareness of and problem solve a solution for the issue. They collect data using handheld computers and write a report.
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Building Biographies: A Research Unit
Students explore the fundamental principles involved in completing a research project. Several handheld technical pieces of equipment are utilized to complete this lesson.
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Story Plot Graph
This graphic organizer allows readers to visualize the introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement of a story by filling in five corresponding boxes with details from a story.
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Satellites and the Radiation Budget
Students engage in a prelab discussion about the earth's radiation budget and global warming. They use "trading cards" to find specific websites to research radiation budget questions.
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Computer Pals
Learners are introduced to using computers as a means of developing communication skills within an authentic context. Students communicate with each other and share ideas via e-mail or other types of computer appllications.
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What Does Art Sound Like?
Help your charges investigate visual art by identifying sounds that are associated with the images. They view art galleries online and discuss which sounds would be present if the image was a real life situation. Additionally, they...
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Sending E-mail
Middle schoolers learn about writing and sending e-mail. They discuss the differences between the ways messages may travel. Then, they learn and compare the writing process between e-mail and regular mail.
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Techno Author
Here is a great way to explore language arts by completing a computer activity with classmates. Youngsters read a fairy tale in class and analyze where the beginning, middle and end are. They create their own story using clip art and...
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Window-Eyes Lesson 11 Numbers and Capitalization Alert In the Screen Menu
Pupils practice using the Window Eyes setting to work with numbers settings, and upper and lower case letter alerts.
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Searching the Internet with WebFerret
Learners explore how to search the Internet with WebFerret.
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Internet Challenge Worksheet: Animals
In this Internet research worksheet, students are directed to go to 5 different search engines to find the topic "animals." Students record how many web page matches come up.
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Internet Challenge Worksheet- Explorers
In this Internet challenge worksheet, students are directed to 5 specific sites to search for "explorers." Students record the number of category and site matches they get on each site. There is only one actual research question about...
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Internet Challenge Worksheet
In this Internet usage worksheet, students navigate to a specific website online, all of which are search engines. Students are then instructed to search on a specific word and answer questions based on the results they get. There are 7...
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Internet Challenge Worksheet
In this Internet usage worksheet, students navigate to specific websites, all of which are search engines. Students are instructed to search on the word "Oregon" and answer 7 questions about their results.