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Other

Medialoot: How to Design an I Os 7 Inspired I Phone App Screen

For Students 9th - 10th
Walk through the steps involved to create a thin, flat iOS 7- inspired design concept for a user profile app screen. By using these simple techniques create stunning, minimal app interfaces.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Google for Education: Children and Technology: Simulating a Computer

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students play the main computer components like a CPU, mouse, or IO controller to simulate calculator application by moving a mouse, synchronizing it with the mouse pointer on the screen and sending request to the processor.
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Other

California Obesity Prevention Initiative: Do More, Watch Less [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here is a complete program to help children understand how much time they spend in front of the television or computer screen, what effects that can have, and how to find activities that will help them get moving instead of watching.Find...
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Newton's Laws of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Making objects move around the computer screen and responding to a variety of environmental forces by understanding Newton's Laws of force and acceleration.
Website
Other

Bt Open World: Stickies 4.5

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site create virtual "Post-it," notes on your computer screen of reminders and to-do lists by downloading this freeware program. Eliminate the clutter at your computer station with this user-friendly program.
Handout
Computer Hope

Computer Hope: Tips for Microsoft Internet Explorer

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of various tips that can be used with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Find out ways to work better and more efficiently with this web browser.
Handout
Computer Hope

Computer Hope: Tips for Mozilla Firefox

For Students 9th - 10th
A listing of various tips that can be used with Mozilla Firefox. Find out ways to work better and more efficiently with this web browser.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hearing: How Do Our Ears Work?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the anatomy of the ear and how the ears work as a sound sensor. Ear anatomy parts and structures are explained in detail, as well as how sound is transmitted mechanically and then electrically through them to the...
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Need for Encryption

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge amount of private data is sent around the Internet every day: emails with details about our personal lives, passwords that we type into login screens, tax documents that we upload to servers. Learn more about the need for data...
Handout
Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Dr. Xingwei Wu

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Dr. Xingwei Wu, the developer of hybrid electroluminescent flat-panel display screen, more commonly known as the flat colour TV screen or computer monitor.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Keyboarding Zoo

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard. Children are encouraged to use their index or pointer fingers to match letters on the screen to their keyboards.
Unit Plan
AulaClic

Aula Clic: Curso De Auto Cad

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn autoCAD step by step with this free tutorial. It has many screen shots and video tutorials.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Programming Basics

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice programming statements, displaying output to the screen, and pseudocode.
Article
AulaClic

Aula Clic: El Bloqueo De Las Ventanas Emergentes

For Students 9th - 10th
Do Pop-up windows open up to obscure your current work or sneak under the other windows to be found later? This article explains how to avoid Pop-up windows. It has screen shots and a video tutorial.
Website
Other

Laptopical the Laptops Weblog

For Students 9th - 10th
Informative blog featuring news, opinions and reviews about laptops and notebook computers. It is searchable by manufacturer or topic.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Trig and Forces: The Pendulum

For Students 9th - 10th
Using Newton's Laws of motion to calculate the acceleration of a pendulum as well as to compute and draw its position along the swing and move about the screen in a computationally based graphic system.
Website
Other

Up to Ten

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This multi-intelligence developmental site categorizes activities into motor skill development, intellectual agility development, and computer literacy development. Large, brightly colored icons and figures light up the screen. Follow...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Robot Sensors and Sound

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Using microphones connected to computers running Audacity software, student teams experiment with machine-generated sounds and their own voices and observe the resulting sound waves on the screen, helping them to understand that sounds...
Unit Plan
Other

Kidwings: Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection

For Students 4th - 8th
A complete lesson on owl pellets. Students can read information, watch a tutorial, and use their computer mouse to complete a dissection simulation right there on the screen.
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Other

A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...