Students discuss importance of making good choices.

Students make the connection of doing something positive for people in need by offering this student activity that reaches out to the entire surrounding community by getting sponsors for a "jog/walk-a-thon".

Here's a project with practical applications for homes with a wireless network. This project shows you how to build and test parabolic reflectors for the transmitters on your network. You may be able to increase the range of your...

Think U Know offers great interactive resources for kids on staying safe while having fun in chat rooms online. Here you will learn the facts through fun and exciting characters! A parent's page is also included.

This puzzle shows students the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city. It can lead on to a discussion of minimal spanning tree algorithms for optimizing networks.

Students learn what information makes up a protocol for bits of information added to messages to make sure they are sent over the internet.

Steiner trees are another way to approach finding efficient networks between points. This is another tough problem from computer science, converted into an activity which is easy to explain, with variations suitable for higher-level...

Meet another classroom and study how much water your class uses compared to another class that may be in another part of the world. Through a variety of activities and gather data be able to collaborate with others via the internet to...

[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson, the Digital Citizens teach students how to be safe, responsible, and respectful online. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics, poster, coloring book, and resources for...

In this learning module, students learn how to: use Michigan eLibrary, boolean logic, and dictionary.com; use search engines; choose reputable websites; cite sources; and differentiate between real and fake information. Includes an...

This learning module is made up of nine quests organized into sets of three. In the first set, students learn how to protect themselves online. In the second, they go through three simulations/games to learn how to protect their...

Social interaction is part of what makes online gaming so popular and engaging for kids. But online communication can come with some risks. This lesson helps students understand how to keep their gaming experiences fun, healthy, and...

In this learning module, students learn how to use Microsoft Word and Google docs, both in the cloud. They will create and format documents and learn how to share them with others so that they can collaborate on projects and assignments....

A social network is an online community of people who use a website or app to communicate with each other by sharing comments, images, videos, resources, etc. This tutorial consists of four quests and, when you have completed it, you...

"Wanda Wigglebits welcomes you to her guide for Building a School Web Site." This site teaches teachers and students to build a web site together.

Welcome to the Web is an interactive set of web pages which can be used to teach children (and adults) about the Internet. This section deals with using web browsers.

In this online course, students will learn all about the social network Facebook. They will learn how to set-up a Facebook account, keep the account safe, create a Facebook profile, find friends and family, and how to post messages,...

In this online course, students will learn how to search for things on the internet using search engines such as Google. The course covers how to search for websites, using bookmarks, and saving images and other files.

In this online course, students will learn all about browsing the Internet. They'll learn about using a web browser to view websites, how to create bookmarks, and what copyright means for online resources.

The World Wide Web is a great place to find more information about a topic. But there are a lot of sites out there - some are good and some are not so good. Here are some steps to help students use the Web to do research.

Through utilizing the Internet to discover technological advances in the 20th century and interviewing relatives and friends who experienced these changes in communication, students will discover firsthand how technology has changed...

This unit teaches students to plan a trip with an itinerary, remain within a budget, and work cooperatively. It is a technology-based project that combines a study of mathematics, economics, geography, and social studies.

During this lesson, two classes in different locations will participate separately in literature circles using Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo. The discussion of the book will be a collaborative project using distance learning.

This lesson focuses on what it means to produce digital content and share information using online platforms.